Play Based Learning

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Play Based Learning

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Effective Teaching & Learning in a Play-Based School Environment Sarah Aiono & Linda Cheer What is Play? Primarily, play is: self-chosen and self-directed; Children need to have the opportunity to quit. Children need to problem solve themselves. (It grows intrinsic motivation.) process rather than product driven; its about the means rather than the end. We don't have to always 'do' something with the e.g. poem contains structures or rules established by the players themselves; Play vs games or sports imaginative, non-literal and removed from reality; These days, children are faced with reality most of the time. Play allows for imagination/magic to develop. occurs between those who are active, alert and non-stressed. Play/imagination happens in the pre-frontal cortex.  If stress is present, the child is not able to be working in the pre-frontal cortex. Play involves higher order thinking. Gray, 2013; Brewer, 2007 Continuum o...
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