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Serious Play:enhanced teaching and learning presentation for Uiversity of Salford, UK on 21 February 2012.Play offers a more empowered life = innovation and creative development, enhanced learning = Lifelong Learning!TRANSCRIPT
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Module
Academic Developmentwww.adu.salford.ac.uk, Twitter: @pgcap
adapted from Nancy White, Change 11 presentation
Serious Playfor enhanced Teaching and Learning
Carol Yeager SUNY/Empire State College21 February 2012
Ancient Wisdom
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation ...
PlatoWe are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of a child at play ... Heraclitus
Play is serious stuff
Visual Play and Neural Research
3 D play increases brain development in adults (National Institute for Play)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByymar3bds
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Lumosity: http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization
Openness to new thinking, new learning depends upon Climate ...
What can you draw with one line without lifting your pencil?
Continuation of one liners
E.P. Torrance
Torrance Incubation Model
Heighten Anticipation
Digging Deeper Expectations
Extending the Learning
Education, Work and Psychology
Embrace Ambiguity ... flow Mihaly Csikszentmihaly ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e1xU0-h9Y8
Sir Ken Robinson: do schools kill creativity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
TEDTED
TEDTED
A. Maslow ... “Almost all Creativity involves purposeful play”
Play is important to survival: from play to innovation
Social play as a learning medium
Vygotsky ... “Imagination begins to develop through play ... before play, there is no imagination”
When learning is fun, it becomes more intrinsic to lifelong learning.
How serious is play?
Most people think the opposite of play is work ... not so, the opposite is boredom or depression
Life without play is depression
Imaginative play: storytelling
Play offers a more empowered life = innovation and creative development, enhanced learning = Lifelong Learning!
Serious Play in Corporations
IDEO http://the99percent.com/articles/7080/IDEO-Big-Innovation-Lives-Right-on-the-Edge-of-Ridiculous-Ideas
Apple
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How are you coming with your play?
Resources for Serious Play
• http://vimeo.com/34233390
https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2299/2595/1/902905.pdf
Csikzentmihaly, M. 1996. Flow: the psychology of discovery and invention. New York, New York. Harper Collins.
Gardner. H. 2006. Five minds for the future. Boston. Harvard Business School Press.
Pink, D.H. 2005,2006. A whole new mind: why right brained will rule the futureLondon: Penguin Group (USA).
Robinson, Ken. 2009. The Element. London, England. Penguin Books Ltd.
Tharp, Twyla. 2006. The Creative Habit. Life.Simon&Schuster. New York.
Torrance, E.P., Murdock, M & Fletcher, D. 1996. Creative Problem Solving through role play. Benedic Books. Pretoria, South Africa.
Get Your Serious Play Started ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_LN3XEcnw&feature=player_embedded
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