Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Playing for class credit
As I said in my last post, playing is just as important for adults as it is for kids! At Stanford, they recognize the importance of play and turned it into a class. How fantastic is that?! I'll answer that--super!!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Countdown-1 week
1 week...ONE WEEK!
I can hardly believe it! Just like many other important days, this one has snuck up on me.
At the end of the summer I always think of an episode of "Arthur." Yes, I am 22 and referencing this show--it now makes sense why I want to teach children and study play for a year, doesn't it? Well, in this episode, the end of summer sneaks up on Arthur. He panics because he thought that he wasted his summer because he did not check anything off of his summer to-do list. However, when he reflects on his summer, with the help of his friends of course, he realizes that he completed a lot more than he thought. HURRAY!
Like in Arthur, the end of the summer snuck up on me, as it does each year, and it makes me excited and anxious. As nervous as I am, I am so excited about this upcoming year! I cannot wait to begin exploring something that I find so interesting and important.
Speaking of which, here is an article about why play is so important in our lives. Yes, OUR, as in my 22 year old self included. Take a sport for example, which on the professional level is all adults. When one plays a sport there is critical thinking, problem solving, spacial reasoning, and many other aspects involved. When I am playing volleyball I evaluate my situation just as much as a 4 year old would when he/she is trying to construct an adequate base for a block tower. We do not realize how much we gain from play because it is something that is innate. See, playing is not just for children :)
I can hardly believe it! Just like many other important days, this one has snuck up on me.
At the end of the summer I always think of an episode of "Arthur." Yes, I am 22 and referencing this show--it now makes sense why I want to teach children and study play for a year, doesn't it? Well, in this episode, the end of summer sneaks up on Arthur. He panics because he thought that he wasted his summer because he did not check anything off of his summer to-do list. However, when he reflects on his summer, with the help of his friends of course, he realizes that he completed a lot more than he thought. HURRAY!
Like in Arthur, the end of the summer snuck up on me, as it does each year, and it makes me excited and anxious. As nervous as I am, I am so excited about this upcoming year! I cannot wait to begin exploring something that I find so interesting and important.
Speaking of which, here is an article about why play is so important in our lives. Yes, OUR, as in my 22 year old self included. Take a sport for example, which on the professional level is all adults. When one plays a sport there is critical thinking, problem solving, spacial reasoning, and many other aspects involved. When I am playing volleyball I evaluate my situation just as much as a 4 year old would when he/she is trying to construct an adequate base for a block tower. We do not realize how much we gain from play because it is something that is innate. See, playing is not just for children :)
"The truly great advances of this generation will be made
by those who can make outrageous connections,
and only a mind which knows how to play can do that."
Nagle Jackson
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