How Lego Braille Bricks help kids learn!

(Children playing with Lego Braille Bricks)
(music starts)

Sean Randall, IT teacher New College Worcester speaking 

“For blind people, Braille is literacy. The only other real option for someone who’s got no sight is to listen and by listening you lose a lot of spelling, grammar, punctuation.

(Someone is typing on a Perkins Braille Machine)

Male child Speaking 

“I started learning Braille when I was five. It empowers me and enables me to do things that I would never have been able to do before.”

(A child is reading a page of Braille and playing with the Lego Braille Bricks).

David Hinds, English teacher New College Worcester speaking 

“What we are doing here today is showing the potential of Lego Braille Bricks to help children learn braille and to engage with the process of Braille.”

Sue Lock, Mathematics Teacher New College Worcester speaking

“Children dislike making mistakes. If you’re using a Braille machine, your mistakes are there written large. Children love being able to make something, unmake it if it’s wrong and make it again and that is the important thing that Braille bricks does and it is making mathematics, English, Spanish, French, literacy far more accessible than it ever was before.”

Sue Lock, Mathematics Teacher and child speaking

Child says: “At the moment, we’ve just been multiplying, dividing” Teacher adds: “including decimals which is quite challenging”, child says “very challenging. Hundreds, tenths, units”. 

(Teacher and child are using Lego Braille Bricks).

Beatriz Molina, Spanish Teacher New College Worcester speaking

“I mainly use the Bricks in Spanish. It’s giving us another tool to explore learning languages and Paige, you enjoy it right?” Paige says “Yeah”

Beatriz Molina, Spanish Teacher New College Worcester speaking with child named Paige

Teacher says “Muy bien y finalmente” Paige says ”Gracias” 

Female child Speaking 

“It’s different from anything I’ve done before and especially with younger students it helps them to fiddle and play.”

Male child speaking 

“It’s having something tangible that you can re-arrange in so many ways”.

(Children laughing and having fun with the Lego Braille Bricks). 

Sean Randall, IT teacher New College Worcester speaking 

“It’s ridiculous that all it does for us really is give us convenient access to moving letters around, but that opens up so many doors and that’s a wonderful thing”.

David Hinds, English teacher New College Worcester speaking 

“Lego Braille Bricks make learning more fun. I gave them to my students just to see how they would get on with them. Couldn’t get them off them (Laughs). We spent the whole lesson making up games and playing with them. It was such an engaging and fun time.”

Sue Lock, Mathematics Teacher and child speaking

(Teacher and child are doing maths with the Lego bricks)

Child says “78”. Teacher replies “spot on” and the child exclaims “got it” 

Sue Lock, Mathematics Teacher

 “Using the braille bricks yesterday, I saw that moment where a child actually has properly understood something and we know what it feels like ourselves, when it finally clicks into place and we say, ‘yeah I’ve got it’. When you see that in a child, that is what keeps teachers going. High Five”

(Teacher and child do high-five).

(The words “The Lego Foundation” appear on the screen and the video and music finishes).