EDIM 502 Play

Dr. Deana McDonagh is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design in the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and faculty at the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology. Prior to joining the University of Illinois she was a Reader in User-Centred Design at Loughborough University in the UK. She is an Empathic Design Research Strategist who focuses on enhancing quality of life for all through more intuitive and meaningful products, leading to emotional sustainability. Her research concentrates on emotional user-product relationships and how empathy can bring the designer closer to users' authentic needs.

Published on Apr 1, 2013 Full Title: "When Education Goes Wrong: Taking Creativity and Play Out of Learning"

Color Collages Have children search through magazines for red pictures, and glue them onto red construction paper. Do the same with each color and use these as posters for the classroom. Another Idea: Cut fabric of different patterns and colors into 1-inch squares, and give children different colors of construction paper cut in half. Make sure to have several patterns of each color fabric (ginghams, stripes, florals, plaids, polka dots). Children glue the pieces of fabric onto the matching color of construction paper (blue fabric on blue paper, yellow fabric on yellow paper, etc.) These can be made into a book or quilt.

Some great examples of story/play interacting.

awesome.

Creative storytelling activities

Clever! You had me at the first one- making play dough!

Variety of story telling ideas

They will love using items in bag as props. Super cool. Why did we get away from doing this?

Free downloadable software that allows students to create their own story books.

I want to try this out. Great idea.

Loved this.

Leslie I think this is a very workable resource. Defintely a great classroom resource for my Prek-2nd and I think I will let our music teacher know about this too.

What play does for creative intelligence and wellbeing

This presentation is about play and its benefits for children in learning and their emotional well being.