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PLAYExperimenting, Tinkering, Failing, Problem
Solving
New Media Literacies
Debbie BrooksBarrington Elementary School
NH Technology Leaders Cohort
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Play doesn’t keep track of time
Time…Is this why play is leaving our classrooms?
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Do you encourage play?
Learning in Motion
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“Schools are currently still training autonomous problem-solvers, whereas students enter the workplace, they are increasingly being asked to work in teams, drawing on different sets of expertise, and collaborating to solve.” (NML’s White Paper)
“Schools are currently still training autonomous problem-solvers, whereas students enter the workplace, they are increasingly being asked to work in teams, drawing on different sets of expertise, and collaborating to solve.” (NML’s White Paper)
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Play
“The capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem solving.”
(NML’s White Paper)
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Experiences ENCOURAGE wonder.
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Play lowers the emotional stakes of failing
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Have you noticed…………“When children are deep at play they engage with
the fierce, intense attention that we’d like to see them apply to their schoolwork.” (S. Osterweill -NML’s White Paper)
Video of 3rd graders Problem Solving
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Owl Dissection Curriculum Integration Project, Grade 2
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QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
State finalist
Doodle for Google Contest - Grades 3 & 4
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Collecting Data & Design
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Out of the box thinking - open ended design project, Grades 3 & 4
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Play as part of discovery can be difficult for some. I think we can all agree that life is much richer when we allow ourselves to play.
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Student LinksWondervillehttp://www.wonderville.ca/v1/home.htmlKidWings Owl Dissectionhttp://www.kidwings.com/index.htmMoneyville - Lemonade Standhttp://www.omsi.info/visit/featured/moneyville/activities.cfm - lemonadeWorld Problem Solvershttp://www.worldproblemsolvers.org/Ed Heads - Activate your Mindhttp://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htmGames for Change http://www.gamesforchange.org/Study Jamshttp://studyjams.scholastic.
com/studyjams/jams/science/ecosystems/water-cycle.htm
Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schoolshttp://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Drawing+Tools
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Break Out Activity…………
Please share an experience you’ve had which involved experimenting, tinkering, failing, problem solving in the learning process.
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Video Links
Listed for Future ReferenceExperimenting, Tinkering, Failinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unjpo_WmXM8
Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHViFc0ekw&feature=related
Learning about Chickshttp://www.schooltube
.com/video/0f585d946b854d13b460/Learning-About-Chicks
Learning with Rulershttp://www.schooltube.com/video/91d84db5236848a09c8d/Learning-with-Rulers
Expeditionary Learning Schoolshttp://www.schooltube.com/video/61bd217e4c43473e9869/Expeditionary-Learning-Schools-Rochester-City-School-District
Viewed in Session
Learning in Motion
http://www.schooltube.com/video/f475ded8d02cd6a29f08/learning-in-motion
Puzzle Solvers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41142045@N04/4562170880/
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Teacher LinksUse Games to Enhance Your Classroom Teaching - UNCW.eduhttp://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/msgames.htmLifelong KindergartenSowing the Seeds for a More Creative Societyhttp://llk.media.mit.edu/mission.phpDoodle for Google Conest Informationhttp://www.google.com/doodle4google/Institute of Playhttp://www.instituteofplay.com/node/101Learning through Play, David Elkind, Ph.Dhttp://www.communityplaythings.com/resources/articles/valueofplay/
learningthroughplay.htmlTop 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning (AASL) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/
bestwebsitestop25.cfmConfronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the
21st Centuryhttp://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDFImportance of Play in the Classroomhttp://www.teach-nology.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1654