play

The Perils of EdSpeak: Play in Danger

As a follow-up to my post The Perils of Education I was preparing a piece on play.  My chief concern…

12 years ago

Child Education Magazine – a window on the past

On my recent visit to England I came across a small trove of Child Education magazines (published by Evans Brothers…

12 years ago

Come Play the Way we Learn

Come play the way we learn – it’s an invitation and it’s on a billboard right there on Hooker Avenue*.…

13 years ago

Bloxology: The Art and Science of thinking out of, inside, with and beyond the Blox.

Bloxes – they’re everywhere. All over the Chapman Room and now migrating to the lobby and Kenyon. What’s a blox?…

13 years ago

“Parents needed as Play Agents?… Surely You’re Joking PDS!”

If you've been to the webpage, read your email,  looked at Facebook or been on campus you will know that…

13 years ago

Snow Day – A Gift of Time

A snow day is a gift of time for play, independent work and keeping connected in the ways that make…

14 years ago

The Five-Step Solution

So here - as promised - the Ned Hallowell five-step solution for happiness and all that ails us including schools…

14 years ago

Childhood Is Another Country: Children Are Not Miniature Adults

Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…

14 years ago

Stand back, Hats on: Kindergarten at work

Every year there are new hats on the shelf in the kindergarten. Every year there are so many opportunities for…

14 years ago

“Playing games makes your child clever”

 A must read article from the Times of London. Playing Games Makes Your Child Clever  

14 years ago

Childhood has Changed: Playtime is Over

Here's an article to read by David Elkind in the NYTimes Playtime is Over It's an important topic. It's an…

15 years ago

Hoover that google

With google now declared the word of the decade, tweet the word of the year and unfriend now officially in…

15 years ago

State of Play

So the debate on the purpose of play in early childhood simmers on. It popped up on my Facebook page…

15 years ago

And the geeks should inherit the school….

Great essay by Daniel Roth in Wired magazine about “geeks” and school. Some extracts: “The driving force in the life…

15 years ago

Setting your socks on fire

Looking through old PDS school photos  – pictures of children working with tools, wading waist deep in muddy ponds and…

15 years ago