Unlock a world of immersive human stories to broaden student horizons and bring learning to life
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Unlock a world of immersive human stories
to broaden student horizons and bring
learning to life
© Lyfta 2021
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What is Lyfta?
Lyfta is a multi-award winning immersive teaching and learning
platform that invites students to experience different cultures and
perspectives. It gives students and their teachers the opportunity
to see, and form a connection with, positive human stories from
around the world modelling resilience, problem-solving, teamwork,
and many other critical skills, values and competencies.
The platform is made up of an array of 360° interactive spaces and
soundscapes of real homes, workplaces and environments from
across the globe, known as storyworlds.
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Students can explore each storyworld, taking in the sights and
sounds as they move around the space, unlocking rich media content
and getting to know real people through powerful and inspiring
short documentary films. The interactive and immersive nature of
the platform ensures students are highly engaged and emotionally
connected to their learning.
The content and resources are ideal for teaching a range of subjects
including literacy, personal social and health education, relationships
and sex education, physical education, geography, citizenship,
science, religious education, and design & technology in primary,
secondary and special schools. The ready-made lesson and assembly
plans cover a range of vital themes such as sustainability, wellbeing,
human diversity and compassion, and are ideal for nurturing vital
skills and values such as empathy, resilience, and critical thinking.
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Storyworlds
“
Fantastic training and resources from Lyfta. You can literally step
foot into another part of the world, experience and understand a
different global community.
Drew Morris, Aureus School
Lyfta storyworlds come from around the world and feature a
range of inspiring real people. Each powerful storyworld has
I am deeply impressed and moved. The potent mix of human
been carefully selected to spark curiosity and empathy. experience and compelling digital presentation makes for
something very special indeed.
At September 2021, the Lyfta platform contains 52 interactive
and immersive storyworlds and over 160 lesson and assembly Liz Robinson, Big Education
plans for teachers to use and adapt. We have an exciting
pipeline of new storyworlds with new content releases 3 times
each year. The storyworlds are made with such quality and access to
"voices" that would otherwise be unheard. They provide a
platform of authenticity that teachers would not
otherwise be able to replicate.
Allen Tsui, Willow Brook Primary School Academy
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A selection of Lyfta storyworlds
Andreas Yard Anni’s Home Assembly Hall Backstage Beachcomber Beekeepers Garden
Big Ballet Studio Clinic Costume Workshop Dogs’ Best Friend Elderly Home Finance Office
Jewellery Maker’s
A Family’s Home Habiba’s Home Room Library Main Stage Makeup & Hair
Muhammed’s Home Orchestra Pit Paint Workshop Phone Box Saviour Pride The Proud Cossack
Sacred Acres School Togetherness Village Square Visitors’ Centre Weaving Workshop
© Lyfta 2021 4Lyfta Pedagogy Resilience, empathy and global citizenship education Lyfta’s mission is to nurture resilience, empathy and global citizenship through immersive and interactive learning. We know that our films and resources help spark curiosity and a sense of human connection. Our pedagogical approach is designed to harness this curiosity, and supports teachers to develop the critical thinking skills in their students that are required to thrive in and improve our increasingly uncertain world. © Lyfta 2021 5
Active citizenship & building Culture, interaction
sustainable future & self expression
Our pedagogy is informed and influenced by the
broad fields of critical global citizenship education,
sociocultural learning theory and transformative
learning theory. Critical thinking
ICT - skills & learning to learn
Many of the resources were initially developed in
Finland where the national curriculum has sustainable
wellbeing as one of its core guiding principles –
alongside equity and equality; inclusivity; high
quality teaching and teachers’ pedagogical
autonomy; and focus on learners and learning. Entrepreneurship
& career skills Multiliteracy
Everyday life skills
© Lyfta 2021 6Teacher interface
The intuitive teacher interface makes it quick and easy for teachers
to plan and deliver lessons and assemblies across a number of topics,
both face to face and remotely.
Content is categorised and searchable by core themes, 50 key
skills and values, including resilience, empathy, critical thinking and
perspective taking, and also by the 17 UN Sustainable Development
Goals, enabling teachers to plan, build and deliver lessons across a
range of topics.
The platform contains over 160 example lesson and assembly plans
developed by our expert education team and which are linked in the teacher
notes to national curriculum objectives.
These plans can be used as they are, or adapted to fit a teacher’s learning
objectives. New lesson and assembly plans can also be built from scratch
with the powerful lesson builder tool.
© Lyfta 2021 7Student interface The student interface supports a flexible range of delivery methods such as whole-class, face to face, blended, teacher-led, independent or remote learning. Teachers are able to guide learning through prompts and a set of interactive questions and challenges. Students access their lessons easily from school or home using a laptop, PC or iPad and a simple passphrase generated by the teacher. © Lyfta 2021 8
“ Lyfta is a powerful platform that reduces the marginalisation that children and young people with additional needs too often experience. The platform removes boundaries and has the unique quality of removing those labels of SEN or disability. Suddenly the world is there to access, explore, and engage with as a global citizen. Vijita Patel, Swiss Cottage School I am delighted with the quality of the resources. The content is engaging and invokes a never ending discussion around a variety of topics, including some which traditionally have been hard to broach at primary school. Jon Carthy, Byron Primary School I am amazed at the resources for teaching! It makes learning so real and current for our children. Audrey Orpen, Venturers’ Academy © Lyfta 2021 9
Lyfta’s vision Our ultimate vision is that children will have digitally visited every country in the world by the time they leave school. They will have met at least one human being from each of these countries; experienced different cultures, languages, jobs, roles and perspectives. They will have seen hundreds of positive human stories modelling resilience, problem-solving, teamwork, and many other critical skills, values and competencies. They will understand for themselves how interconnected and interdependent we are, and will have gained a deep awareness of their power and role in the world. © Lyfta 2021 10
We look forward to supporting you to bring
the world into your classroom with Lyfta...
Find out more at www.lyfta.com
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@LyftaEd
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