Seeking Individuals Who Want to Play - Delaware State NACADA 2016
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This document discusses using a learning-as-play approach. It encourages individuals to play, reflect, and collaborate. Play is described as a response to new experiences where content and meaning are uncertain. It involves hands-on problem solving and collaboration. Attendees are instructed to work together in areas of the room containing random everyday items to build new constructions. Examples of play at work include giving employees time to creatively work on projects and conducting job interviews through puzzles. Resources promoting play-based learning approaches are provided. The document concludes by asking for questions and commitments to actions.
Seeking Individuals Who Want to Play - Delaware State NACADA 2016
- 1. Seeking: Individuals Who Want to Play Jennifer Blackwell, M.S. Delaware Technical Community College, Jack F. Owens Campus @blackwje j.blackwell@dtcc.edu
- 2. 2 Welcome to #NACADADelaware, we are glad you are here! !
- 3. To play. To reflect. To collaborate.
- 7. What is Play? A response to new experiences where content & meaning are uncertain Hands-on problem- solving Collaboration in action
- 8. Lets Play!
- 11. In areas of the room, there are random every day items. ! Find an area that feels most comfortable to you, and working together with the individuals who join you - build a new construction that hasnt existed in time or space before. It can be something you use, you wear, you see, etc. ! ! Try to use all of the materials available when feasible.
- 12. Time to Reflect
- 13. Are we learning? Builds problem-solving, persistence & collaboration skills Play = reflective learning strategy Positively contribute to society
- 14. Ideas!
- 15. 20% time to creatively work on what they think will most benefit the company Only 10% of employees are consistently doing this (as of April, 2015) and it has no management oversight HR Director of Google: The idea of it is more important than the reality of itthe most talented and creative people cant be forced to work. BusinessInsider.com (April 17, 2015) Play at work
- 16. 16 Nerf Stations in Student Activities office Biology Instructor who would breakdown equipment of focus in lab for given project Company at career fair interviewing (unknowing) applicants through a puzzle for free flip flops Starting meeting with word of the day More Personal Examples of Play at Work
- 17. Resources PlayMaker schools of Santa Monica, CA Play, Make, Discover in Interest- Driven Curriculum MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten Playful Systems EdSurge Do, Design, Discover Training Workshops ! THNK.org Google, Zappos
- 18. Resources Paulo Freires Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) Generate experiences from within 50 Ways to Use Your Noodle / Chicken & Noodle Games Games with innovative equipment The Processing Pinnacle Educators guide to processing experiential learning
- 22. 22 Thank you for learning with us! ! Evaluate: Please complete your session evaluation and add it to the stack as you exit, please. ! Commit: What do you commit to doing as a result of participating in this session? Tweet your commitment using #NACADADelaware
- 23. Jennifer Blackwell, M.S. Delaware Technical Community College Jack F. Owens Campus j.blackwell@dtcc.edu @blackwje