Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Module

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adapted from Nancy White, Change 11 presentation

Serious Playfor enhanced Teaching and Learning

Carol Yeager SUNY/Empire State College21 February 2012

Ancient Wisdom

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation ...

PlatoWe are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of a child at play ... Heraclitus

Play is serious stuff

Visual Play and Neural Research

3 D play increases brain development in adults (National Institute for Play)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByymar3bds

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Lumosity: http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization

Openness to new thinking, new learning depends upon Climate ...

What can you draw with one line without lifting your pencil?

Continuation of one liners

E.P. Torrance

Torrance Incubation Model

Heighten Anticipation

Digging Deeper Expectations

Extending the Learning

Education, Work and Psychology

Embrace Ambiguity ... flow Mihaly Csikszentmihaly ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e1xU0-h9Y8

Sir Ken Robinson: do schools kill creativity?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

TEDTED

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A. Maslow ... “Almost all Creativity involves purposeful play”

Play is important to survival: from play to innovation

Social play as a learning medium

Vygotsky ... “Imagination begins to develop through play ... before play, there is no imagination”

When learning is fun, it becomes more intrinsic to lifelong learning.

How serious is play?

Most people think the opposite of play is work ... not so, the opposite is boredom or depression

Life without play is depression

Imaginative play: storytelling

Play offers a more empowered life = innovation and creative development, enhanced learning = Lifelong Learning!

Serious Play in Corporations

IDEO http://the99percent.com/articles/7080/IDEO-Big-Innovation-Lives-Right-on-the-Edge-of-Ridiculous-Ideas

Google

Apple

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How are you coming with your play?

Resources for Serious Play

• http://vimeo.com/34233390

https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2299/2595/1/902905.pdf

Csikzentmihaly, M. 1996. Flow: the psychology of discovery and invention. New York, New York. Harper Collins.

Gardner. H. 2006. Five minds for the future. Boston. Harvard Business School Press.

Pink, D.H. 2005,2006. A whole new mind: why right brained will rule the futureLondon: Penguin Group (USA).

Robinson, Ken. 2009. The Element. London, England. Penguin Books Ltd.

Tharp, Twyla. 2006. The Creative Habit. Life.Simon&Schuster. New York.

Torrance, E.P., Murdock, M & Fletcher, D. 1996. Creative Problem Solving through role play. Benedic Books. Pretoria, South Africa.

Get Your Serious Play Started ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_LN3XEcnw&feature=player_embedded

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