Play-Based Learning: Physical, Virtual and Educational
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Wiki Authors
Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Director
Center for Advancing Teaching & Learning Through Research Northeastern University
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Barbara Draude Assistant Vice President for Academic and Instructional Technologies Middle Tennessee State University
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Workshop Description
The musician Elvis Costello noted that "talking about music is like dancing about architecture." Well, talking about play is also like dancing about architecture. In this workshop, participants will become involved in a physical experience of play and draw on that experience to explore the potential for play in virtual and educational environments. They will be encouraged to envision how, in a Web 2.0 world, play contributes to learning.
Central Questions:
- What happens when we are at play? Why is it "fun"?
- What do we learn through the experience of play?
- How is one type of play different from another; and how do differing play experiences result in different types of learning?
- How can we draw on physical play experiences to inform the creation of virtual play, and by extension to create opportunities for educational play?
Workshop Slides
Workshop Agenda
8:30-8:45 Introductions
8:45-9:00 Overview: Central Questions
9:00-9:30 Physical Play Exercise 9:30-10:00 Overview: Theories of Play
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In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
- Lev Vygotsky
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10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-10:45 Virtual Play Exercise
10:45-11:30 Educational Play Exercise
11:30-12:00 Wrap-up and Final Comments
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
- Leo Buscaglia
Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
- Plato
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