1. Complexity
It’s not just about learning or just about play.
It is about understanding the whole play ecosystem.
How small changes, adult actions/non-actions, the resources available and how they are placed etc...
we need to be aware of how everything is connected
2. Complexity
It’s about all of these things and the in-between.
The relationships and the community.
I keep trying to make sense of mainstream education and it’s tendency to one size fits all - the oversimplification of a complex process that results in excluding
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Children learning as individuals. Subjects taught individually and often without connection to the real work or the child’s context.
Learning separates from play.
Play, learning, living is a community experience. Filled with overlapping relationships and interactions.
4. Complexity.
Is where the real learning happens.
Where play and learning are equally valued.
Where creating a community of learners is valued.
Where children listen and value each other and feel safe enough to explore creatively together.
5. Complexity.
Creative thinking requires risk taking.
Risk taking requires feeling safe enough and confident enough to make mistakes and learn from them.
Schools demanding correct answers to get grades is not creating the space of safety and well-being for creative thinking.
6. Original Learning.
Is something I have been writing to try and find a place to explore complexity, the whole play-ecosystem.
Of learning/teaching woven into a play warp that is dense enough to create a quality life fabric that last a lifetime and not filled with holes that
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... needs to be patched and repaired.
Too few warp threads (not enough play) will mean there is not enough threads to weave the learning into...
play is a process of understanding facts, the world... a place to test theories + experiment, a place of healing + well being.
8. Complexity.
Means it is not just about the play warp and the learning threads... it is taking the time to consider which threads we choose or offer children. Is it from the one approved basket of threads? The one single story? Or are we offering many baskets?
Baskets filled with unheard and silent voices, suppressed and oppressed histories and facts that if woven into the fabric share the complex story we are all a part of.
An opportunity to expand the norm. To decolonize education by taking away the fabricated threads that have
10. .. have been controlling the narrative in order to maintain the establishment.

We need to also learn how to detangle threads, to slow down so that we don’t break the learning potentials by being in a hurry to teach.
To give children the skills they need to select and
11. Detangle the threads themselves - to be empowered to see their own learning and to plan how to learn. As individuals AND as a community.

Then there is the need to think about HOW are those threads woven... so many different techniques - just as there are many ways to learn +
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.. teach... the hundred languages.
A way that 100% of the child can engage and reach their potential.

Learning is complex.
Reflection, wonder, curiosity, risk, joy, interaction , collaboration, time, imagination, knowledge.
Many words often missing in mainstream education.
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If play is viewed as subversive because it cannot guarantee learning outcomes at a specified time it means that the school system does not truly care about learning, truly understand play, or truly desire creative thinking and knowledge
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Instead the system cares about children memorizing facts at set times in their lives... to simply memorizing new facts the year after.

This leaves little time for real listening - listening to understand - as the barrage of facts, the competition of grades means
15. ... that the community of learners is depleted...

There needs to be a change in how we view children... the purpose of education... and that the system allows teachers to teach the way children learn.
#playresponsiveteaching #originallearning #equity #communityoflearners
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