{"id":262309,"date":"2024-10-12T18:06:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/12\/a-visual-exploration-of-why-play-is-necessary-for-learning\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:52","slug":"a-visual-exploration-of-why-play-is-necessary-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/12\/a-visual-exploration-of-why-play-is-necessary-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Exploration Of Why Play Is Necessary For Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>We make lasting connections through play, but the <strong><a title=\"The role of play in learning\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/learning\/the-role-of-play-in-learnin\/\">role of play in learning<\/a><\/strong> is an idea that continues to meet resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason could be tone. We like our learning serious, intentional, and academic. This is reflected through a parallel insistence on an outcomes-based learning system where learning objectives are determined and assessments are written before hand, and subsequent instruction is revised based only on data taken from said assessments. (See \u201c<strong><a title=\"10 Ways Data Can Sabotage Your Teaching\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/teaching\/10-ways-data-can-sabotage-your-teaching\/\">10 Ways Data Can Sabotage Your Teaching<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>And the entire process itself is based on a pile of industrialized and de-personalized \u201clearning standards\u201d that, while well-intentioned and designed to ensure a \u201ccommon body of knowledge,\u201d dictate the terms of learning from the outside looking in.\u00a0Image the hubris the must exist to determine ahead of time what a student will understand as the result of a learning experience! (I only pray Grant Wiggins isn\u2019t reading this.)<\/p>\n<p>Like <a title=\"6 Video Games You Can Teach With Tomorrow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/technology\/6-video-games-you-can-teach-with-tomorrow\/\"><strong>video games<\/strong><\/a>, \u201cplay\u201d <a title=\"The Juvenile Connotation of Video Games\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/video-games-2\/the-juvenile-connotation-of-video-games\/\"><strong>suffers from a juvenile connotation<\/strong><\/a> that is unfortunate. Even though the most \u201cprofessional\u201d adults continue to play, such efforts are often disguised, or apologized for with ridiculous conditions and explanations. Why apologize for creating your own goals and terms for interaction?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Factors That Make Play\u00a0Exhilarating\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, play offers three critical components for an engaged mind: <strong>independence<\/strong>, <strong>volition<\/strong>, and <a title=\"How to Kill a Learner's Curiosity in 12 Easy Steps\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/learning\/how-to-kill-a-learners-curiosity-in-12-easy-steps\/\"><strong>curiosity<\/strong><\/a>. None of this is to suggest that students should be given iPads, a box of legos, and every app they care to download and frolic about with. But it does suggest some marked shifts on how learning happens.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Darwin\u2019s teacher said he wouldn\u2019t amount to much because he spent too much time \u201cplaying\u201d with insects.<\/p>\n<p>But as the video explains, it\u2019s never just play.<\/p>\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/falHoOEUFz0\" data-id=\"falHoOEUFz0\" data-query=\"\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\" data-cf-modified-68e6acd3df6092ac3b7c8019-=\"\">\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/falHoOEUFz0\/hqdefault.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/falHoOEUFz0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"Born to Learn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/falHoOEUFz0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><em>Image attribution flickr user bobbyjames;\u00a0A Visual Exploration Of Why Play Is Necessary For Learning<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/learning\/a-visual-exploration-of-why-play-is-necessary-for-learning\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] We make lasting connections through play, but the role of play in learning is an idea that continues to meet resistance. 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