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“I found this podcast after having read Free to Learn by Peter Gray and listened to Play by Stuart Brown and Christopher Vaughan MD on Audible. I had heard about the Play movement associated with homeschooling years ago but didn’t realize what it meant and how it wasn’t necessarily tied to homeschooling (Peter Gray speaks how the principles of play based learning could be applied to public and/or charter and private schooling (although the overscheduled, standardized, rubric driven lesson plans of many education programs might make play based activities harder to foster unless the space and time is given for children to learn by self directed and self motivated playful opportunities). Play based activities are simply self motivated, self driven activities done more for their own intrinsic joys than for adult expectations of outcomes. They are opportunities for children to explore, engage and learn at their own pace, with or without other children of various ages and without the constant supervision and micromanagement of adults so common in life from cradle to grave.
I went to a public school growing up in the 70s and 80s and had a blast - schools back then often let children play for at least an hour and several half hour sessions during the day were spent either outside or in the gym playing games - some directed by adults and others more child directed such as playing on monkey bars or on swings and in the field. Early reading programs often included short reading packets that I could pick and read at my own pace about interesting topics from Charles Lindbergh and other history to fun fairy tales or tales of children across the world. My fifth grade teacher let some of us tinker with programming an Apple II computer to draw line shapes (LOGO turtle graphics). So teachers back then knew some of these principles of letting children learn through play and self motivated learning by exploring. Hopefully teachers of all kinds including parents who homeschool can use such principles as are discussed in this podcast to return to the tried and true principles of learning through self directed playful states of mind rather than the less playful and artificial rubrics approach that is sucking the life out of kid’s learning today.”
IgnoreIgnorantCritics via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/20/22
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03/11/21
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“Kristen, I love this podcast and everything about it. Just listened to the one with Tiffany and it was so inspiring! So much great information. Love the Play Frontier, sounds exactly like the kindergartens I worked at in Denmark and what I want to recreate here in Florida with Joyscovery.”
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United States of America ·
06/16/24
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