Just a snip from Gabriel Eirea from a recent post about Activities, > One more comment: kids are hungry for games, all types of games, all > the time, there is no way to satisfy them. They don't want just the > "finished" activities, they want the simple pacman clone and tetris > clone and all the student scratch-based games that only appear in > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All.
Someone once said that 'playing is children's natural learning work'. The above excerpt attests to that. I can hardly wait to see what we'll learn by having collaboration in the Physics Activity, http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193, and watching those in the playground. ...This whole approach starts to help children stop "thinking in words" and > start to think in terms of relationships, causes and effects, and most > importantly in terms of whole systems. > > There are very few teachers in the US that understand any of this, even in > HS. > We could begin to develop demonstrations for parents and teachers. p.s. Here is a resource that may be helpful, http://www.museumofplay.org/about_us/index.html. --Fred
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