Week 3: Play and Creativity

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sketch of wooden froebel blocks

Goals: This week we will read about play and creativity. Consider how we can design and organize learning environments to support our own definitions of play and creativity.

Readings this week:

Papert, S. (2002). Hard Fun.
Runco, M. A., & Jaeger, G. J. (2012). The Standard Definition of Creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 24(1), 92–96.
Culpepper, M. K., & Gauntlett, D. (2020). Making and learning together: Where the makerspace mindset meets platforms for creativity. Global Studies of Childhood, 10(3), 264–274.

Do this week:

Do the readings (see above)
Meet with your team and work on the Rube Goldberg lab
Bring designs/sketches to next week’s class
Update your portfolio with content from the LEGO catapult lab