I’m really excited about play. I’m a kindergarten teacher and I think that through games kids learn easily because they promote a fun and a creative environment.
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I am most curious about Passion. As the gifted and talented teacher for our third, fourth, and fifth grade students (and the library media specialist for the whole school) , I want to be able to allow all of my students the time and opportunity to create things based on their passions. Many times, however, when I try to help students find their passions, it never goes as smoothly as I hope it does. I feel this is because of the way I am presenting the opportunity and/or the experiences (or lack thereof) the students have with the freedom to make with no limitations. I hope this LCL opportunity will help me provide more effective opportunities for my students.
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I am most excited about Passion. I think when your passion is identified and ignited, all the other Ps will fall into place.
For my students, their Play instinct is high, but they tend to dissipate into uproar which short circuits the learning I wish for them. Perhaps if they discover and articulate their own passions the play they experience in my coding class will be more purposeful.
Passion is the key for me.
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I am feeling the same.
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I’m most interested in Play. In my mind, play is about spontaneity, imagination, exuberance, and expression. How can play be encouraged/supported, especially in an educational system like ours? How can we rekindle the spirit of play for ourselves as adults?
Projects is the one for me, though I’m quite curious about Passion and Peers as well. Play is the one that comes naturally for me cause of my background in gaming. Play as the natural form of learning has been somewhat my motto for the last decade and a half haha.
What I’m curious about around Projects is the element of doing a specific thing and finishing it. I’ve known two people who went to Montesorri schools as kids and actually really wished they hadn’t. One said they never learned to commit to one project, while the other said they never learned to push through and finish difficult tasks. Most of the creative learning method sounds very free-form and supporting the child’s autonomy, which I love. However, I do worry how one teaches children to persevere and do the hard things that will be part of even the most motivating endeavours. That’s why I’m very curious how the Projects element is approached in the Creative Learning paradigm.
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This is super interesting! In video games, one of the seminal researchers (Jesper Juul) to talk about ludology made this distinction between games and toys. Your comment reminded me of him. I looked up his work again and turns out he’s Danish! So I wonder how much of his work is shaped by his native language. There is some work out there on how bilingualism (or more languages) allows for thinking about concepts in different frames more easily.
Source: The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gameness
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I actually found this an issue when conducting a Scratch workshop some years ago. It was several sessions long, and it was difficult for them to go past the exploring phase and actually commit to something specific for several days in a row. I tried several strategies, but none seemed to really work.
Would love to hear other people’s experiences on this…
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I’m curious to learn how we can start redefining PLAY and reimagine learning. It seems obvious to see when a 3-year old play in a sandbox - but what does PLAY looks like when you’re 13 or 23 years old? How can we amplify learners voices and stop thinking about learning as something going on from 8am to 3pm and play as afterschool activities?
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Hi Beka and dodekagonia,
The split between LEG and PLAY goes for Danish as well. The word LEGO comes from LEg GOdt (PLAY WELL 
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I am curious about project and play, how can we integrate these things to help in making learning more fun!
Hi,
I’m curious about Play, but also other P’s are in my interest. I think when we Play with our Peers during different Projects it could provoke to born Passion.
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I have thought gamification in my courses, and it may be a good place to start. But what I am really looking for is something…more.
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I’m most interested in Play, I believe that if we can put the fun in fundamentals of everything we do in life, we can be happier, more peaceful and generous which would automatically seep into other areas of life like motivation (which would, in turn, fuel passion), maintaining relationships (engaging with peers), and working on things (projects) and everything else! :D
Hi Beka!
Nice question! Spela implies that there are rules. And I would say that leka can be spela, i.e. in the case that children (or why not adults) play a game with rules that they invent themselves. Sorry, that´s not a very clear explanation - it´s funny how hard it is to find the right words to explain it 
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On Scratch, I wanted to choose a name with some connection to mathematics. I thought that hexagonia would be nice, but I googled it and found that hexagonia is some kind of fungus, so to avoid confusion I chose dodekagonia instead (a dodecagon is a polygon with twelve sides, in Swedish it´s dodekagon). I draw my profile pic with a red dodecagon and a sequence of hexagons with Mathematica. Happy you like it!
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Following! We work in a context where pre-school is a quite new concept and it is often seen as a copy of primary: “broadcasting approach”. How to help teachers to let children play, to see and stimulate the learning in play?
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I would love to hear more about the Passion: how to help people find passion? How to find that inside fire that is the engine to Play and do Projects?
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I’m particularly curious about Play! Usually and unfortunately, play tends to be forgotten in teenage and adult education. I look forward to exploring new ways of approaching play with my students.
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The idea that bilingualism (or more languages) allows for more easily thinking about concepts in different frames sounds plausible.
And sometimes, I notice that I shift to thinking in Finnish or English because what I think about at that moment is easier to express in that language.
Thanks for the reference to Jesper Juul; I´ll take a look at his paper later.
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this is a really good food for thought!
for me, play is something that has always been inspired by a spark of happiness and curiosity about how I would feel on interacting with something, and how the subject of my happiness would react/interact with me in return, if that makes sense
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