Cyprien Lomas on what Higher Education can learn from flickr
Published by Gardner May 16th, 2006 Tags: No Tags.
It’s all fascinating, but the playful aspect intrigues me most, at least this afternoon. Playful doesn’t mean frivolous, or trivial, or superficial–or at least, not necessarily. It can mean that quality of commitment and connectedness that takes us out of our habits and into new arenas of exploration and building. Cyprien’s talk underscores the need for educators and students to respond to opportunities for playfulness, and to create them.
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Faculty Academy 2006 Photos
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Yes. This is something I’ve been thinking about all semester. How can we make learning more like play than like work? How could we make our students as enthusiastic about our courses as kindergarten kids are? I hope to blog on this in the near future.
Playfulness - another aspect of gaming that can be borrowed by education! And playfulness is so portable and low-tech
(see? there’s some right there)