Purposeful Play: Purposeful Play: Designs for Creative Designs for Creative Teaching & Learning Teaching & Learning Purposeful Play: Purposeful Play: Designs for Creative Designs for Creative Teaching & Learning Teaching & Learning Kim Jaxon Kim Jaxon California State University, Chico California State University, Chico Kim Jaxon Kim Jaxon California State University, Chico California State University, Chico @drjaxon @drjaxon http://kimjaxon.com 1
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Purposeful Play: Designs Purposeful Play: Designs for Creative Teaching & for Creative Teaching &
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Purposeful Play: Designs Purposeful Play: Designs for Creative Teaching & for Creative Teaching &
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Kim JaxonKim JaxonCalifornia State University, ChicoCalifornia State University, Chico
Kim JaxonKim JaxonCalifornia State University, ChicoCalifornia State University, Chico
“In play, a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.”
—Lev Vygotsky
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Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger
Etienne Wenger
Learning as Social, as Learning as Social, as Participation Participation
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Designing courses with these ideas in mind:
• Play. Does not mean easy or fun, per se. But it does mean imagining new ways of being. Who can students be in my class? What identities can they take on?
• Open, Open, Open. Use resources (both digital and face to face) to connect students to actual communities they wish to join.
• Deliverables. Students make. Work with course ideas and materials to produce something every day. Always asking: How am I getting in the way of students’ participation?6
“the term participation describe[s] the social experience of living in the world in terms of membership in social communities and active involvement in social enterprises”
--Etienne Wenger
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Example: English 341Reading Literature for
Future Teachers
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Artifact Assignment
You will have a lot of choice here in how you (or as a group) decide to share your books. You can create a visual map, a book trailer (using our iPads and iMovie) or short film,
post a review on Goodreads and tweet about the text,
lead a discussion about the book on Twitter, give an Ignite talk, act out a scene for our
class, write fanfiction…lots of possible ways to share. You can decide to do your own
thing or work in teams. Here are some great examples from last semester
What is the “why” of your class? Why should students take it or be in it? How will they be changed by it? What is your discipline’s or classroom’s “why”? Why does it matter that students take __________ class or become _________ists?
What site and/or classroom resources are available in order to design for making, playing, and open learning?
