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Tag: Play

  • Everything plays… some time…

    This is an interesting article (Akst, Jef., Recess, The Scientist, v24 i10 p44) that came across my desk today, describing how not only primates but all other sorts of animals play. Not only does it show that play is something that is deeply rooted in life, but there are also some ways to define play:…

  • Should we hurry our infants?

    Much of my interest in games and learning came from my youth playing games as seeing that there were potentially a really effective tool to deliver content. Though at the time I was playing those games, I wasn’t thinking about teaching and learning. I only saw how playing games about an age or time helped…

  • Stuart Brown on Play

    What is it about “modern society” that so strongly believes that play is merely infantile? Stuart Brown presents an amazing talk on play and how it seems to be a natural extension of any intelligence. It seems to be the extension of some work ethic gone mad that “we” need some reason to do something,…

  • Randy Nelson mentions recovering from failure

    First watch this: I was going to really generalize the title, but then decided against it and decided to draw attention only to the part he talks about recovering from setbacks/failure. This is something that really makes sense to me and it is something that I think is at the root of some of the…

  • Puzzles and Brain Age

    If there is no other argument as to why games should be used to help develop minds, all one has to do is look into the world of puzzles to see how cognitive gymnastics help keep the old grey matter from getting old. The BBC has a story on a game that is available for…