For Your Binder
The Power of Play: A Pediatric Role in Enhancing Development in Young Children
The updated statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics saying that play is crucial to a child's healthy development. #play #teaching #learning #parenting #DAP
Play as a Social Justice Issue in Early Childhood Education
This link will bring you to a Master's Thesis from a Bank Street student. In it she explores (the lack of) play as a social justice issue. "Helping low income kids" often gets translated into "eliminating play" and we know this flies smack in the face of what the research (which she does a fantastic job reviewing!) tells us should be happening for all children regardless of socio-economic status. The paper is informative; her references are invaluable. #DAP #play #equity #teaching #learning
First Days of Preschool
The first days of preschool can be stressful for everyone. In this short but helpful article, Lillian Katz offers a few ideas that might assist both parents and teachers. #environment #learning #teaching #relationships #care
The Changing Function of the Fairy Tale
It's impossible to define a fairy tale as a literary genre because it has become more of a cultural institution than anything else. #fairytales #stories #reading #books
Playground or panopticon?
The history of the playground is a story of control. Read more about it in this article and BONUS! There is an embedded link to their podcast episode (40 min) of the same title! #play #panopticon #playgrounds #outside
On Thinking & Teaching: A conversation with Eleanor Duckworth
We must have deep relationships with people and with ideas. #teaching #learning #theorists
Seriously Considering Play
First off, regardless of your position on screen based tech please shelve it for this read as, seriously, the article is from 1996 and I am quite sure anyone currently involved in designing interactive media would laugh at how dated and old the language is ("the popular analogy of an office desktop to help a user understand the operation of a microcomputer")
Also, I reread it a couple times before posting and I really think we can take the message, which might initially seem specific to gaming/interactive media, lift it up and take from it a reminder of the value and importance of play, discovery, intrinsic motivation & self-regulation. #play #teaching #learning #technology #screens
Guiding Principles of Emergent Early Childhood Education
Taking a cue from the bees! #DAP #play #teaching #learning
Play is NOT a Stupid Waste of Time
FUN FACT! Mother Nature installed the “play drive” for the same reason she installed that other drive – the drive to reproduce: BOTH are critical for the species to continue. (In fact, play makes you into the kind of person someone would want to reproduce WITH.) #play #teaching #learning
Play Types (poster)
Here is a link from the Play Scotland website to a graphic of all of the play types as identified by Bob Hughes! #play #playwork
Monkey Bars Are a Menace! They broke my daughter’s arm. Why are they still around?
Short of cocooning our darlings in bubble wrap, nothing’s going to keep them completely safe. #play #outside #risk #movement #parenting #teaching #playgrounds
How Creativity Flourishes Through Play & Why It Matters
I've included this resource mainly for the image you'll see when you click the link (although it's not an off-base blog post by any means!) I wanted you to see Mitch Resnick's Creative Learning Spiral without (full disclosure: forgive me) all of the MIT tech speak, including descriptions of the technologies he's created, that usually fill the articles that contain the image. I love this image. I also believe when children are playing they tap into this cycle of creativity without needing to scratch any crickets. #play #DAP #creativity