Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ #unrules26 - Biologically, the necessary order of learning is: explore, then play, then add rigor.

Stephen Downes

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As Clark Aldrich writes, "It is almost impossible not to believe play is absolutely essential to mastery." He continues, "the most successful academic use of 'play' is not, as one might expect, the extension of successful socializing and educational play from kindergarten to subsequent first and second grades... the closer to the point of the real use of content, and the more sophisticated the content, the more play is encouraged."

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