PLAYExperimenting, Tinkering, Failing, Problem

Solving

New Media Literacies

Debbie BrooksBarrington Elementary School

NH Technology Leaders Cohort

Play doesn’t keep track of time

Time…Is this why play is leaving our classrooms?

Do you encourage play?

Learning in Motion

“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)

Play

“The capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem solving.”

(NML’s White Paper)

Experiences ENCOURAGE wonder.

Play lowers the emotional stakes of failing

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

Owl Dissection Curriculum Integration Project, Grade 2

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State finalist

Doodle for Google Contest - Grades 3 & 4

Collecting Data & Design

Out of the box thinking - open ended design project, Grades 3 & 4

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.

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

Break Out Activity…………

Please share an experience you’ve had which involved experimenting, tinkering, failing, problem solving in the learning process.

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/

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