Kinder teacher, Ms. Linder decided at the beginning of the year to focus on the use of iPads in her classroom as part of the Learner Centered Appraisal Program (LCAP). Throughout the year she has made thoughtful decisions about how to integrate the apps on the iPad in to her instruction, always focusing on the learning first. I worked with her this weekend as she constructed her blog and I reflected on the word 'play'. At the start of this initiative we were told never to use the word 'play' when referring to what students were doing on the iPads. At the time, I was curious about why and was told that the word might have a negative impact of community perceptions on the value of the iPad for instruction. Coming from Europe, play has always been a huge part of elementary education. In fact during the early years children do nothing but play. Play didn't just happen at designated times; it was embedded throughout the day. On traveling through the early years classrooms in this building and observing all the time they 'play; I think it's absolutely acceptable to embrace that term when it comes to iPads. We should not give the message to these children that learning isn't playing and playing isn't learning. So let's PLAY!
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August 2016
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