The Effects of the Lack of Play on Learning: The first few years are the most crucial for brain development and research has shown that stimulating play and learning experiences for children help to build connections in the brain called neural pathways which are essential for cognitive development. Lack of these opportunities restricts the development of these pathways, slowing down or delaying learning in the short term and affecting a child’s chances in the long term. Play is one of the main ways in which children interact with one another and form relationships. Lack of social interaction can lead to a child not being able to learn how to co-operate, develop confidence as well as problem solving and thinking skills.…
The Most Dangerous Game: What is the mental state of General Zaroff? General Zaroff is the main antagonist of the story The Most Dangerous Game. He's got it all but he still wants more.…
In this episode of Brain Games, I learned of the tricks and illusions your brain will play on you. In Game #1, a basketball is rolling but the shadow of the basketball makes my brain think it is bouncing and jumping up and down. Our brain is trying to rationalize the bouncing and jumping of the ball. Our brains are so used to only one light source that we do not question the perception of shadows. Not only can shadows lie to you, but colors can also lie to you.…
This lab sounds exciting. In my high school, human anatomy class, we did an activity that was very like the two-point discrimination across the skin activity. That was almost 3 years ago so I am excited to re-try the activity and see if I can do any better than I did in high school. Along with the visual lab activity I think that the tasks will be difficult. Although I have not done an activity like the peripheral vision cards or an activity such as looking at the jerky or smooth movements of the eye; however, I have watched episodes of “Brain Games,” which focuses on ways to trick your brain.…
Theoretically, preschool teachers can use of three similar types of strategies for managing R&T play: allowing, selectively allowing, and restricting. This phenomenon supports the fact that American and Korean teachers have in common perspective of the developmental value of R&T play. It means that both acknowledge the benefits of R&T play, but also express concern about child safety and the belief that R&T play could encourage physical aggression. However, different from my hypothesis and experience that American teachers encourage R&T play, American teachers more discourage to R&T play than Korean teachers in the literatures.…
Kids and teenagers who enjoy playing football and other types of sport that is physically strenuous (whether at recess during school, kid day care center, or at the boys and girls club events) often forget or ignore proper safety equipment and usage of padding. This neglect, in addition to lack of education and enforcement among players and coaches alike often leads to great amounts of injury in a wide range of sports and physical activities. In order to reduce the risk of these injuries, I will dedicate myself to creating a policy called Safe Play. This policy will encompass cohorts of safety administrators; they will educate and oversee that safety protocols are being adhered to, before and during kids’ activities. Safe Play would reduce the risk of injury to children and teenagers nationwide through a standardized provision of safety equipment, both at a state and federal level.…
Inevitably this means that they will need to take some risks, and most activities will involve some element of danger. If children's experiences are limited due to adults' anxieties, it is likely that they will find it difficult to assess and manage risk when they become adults. A balanced approach to risk management involves: Taking into account the young person's age, needs and abilities Avoiding excessive risk taking…
Researches and many child development theorists suggests play to be an increasingly more varied and complex activity with significant influence on the physical, cognitive and social development of children (Kearns 2010). A balance between both types of play, structured and unstructured, can significantly benefit children in their development. Children attempt achieving pre-existing objectives set by an adult in structured play while establishing their own objectives in free/unstructured play (Pettersen 2013). Many researches have shown play to enhance children 's motor skills along with their physical well-being (Kearns 2010). In addition, many experiments conducted suggests that group play facilitate development of basic social skills including understanding and taking others ' perspectives into…
As told in the article “more than 15 million children in the United States younger than 18 years live in poverty”. Obviously many children are having their play, that is vital to their development taken from them due to poverty. Poverty can take away chances for play, by limiting what kids can do, such as sports outside of school. These are particularly expensive, as the article said “Children who live in poverty often face socioeconomic obstacles that impede their rights to playtime.” these refers to lack of money and opportunities.…
The space available in the outdoor play environment allows children to participate in more active physical activities and provides a setting for children to express themselves, move, explore and learn their bodies capabilities through different physical plays (Little & Sweller, 2015, para. 5). However, the outdoor play does include some risks because the condition of the outdoor space is flexible and unpredictable. For instance, children may fall in the goal post area or other places, but falling assists children to learn by cue-association to prevent future tumbles as well as learn to problem solve so children learn to manage risks (Wyver, Tranter, Naughton, Little, Sandseter & Bundy, 2010, p. 264 & Little, n.d., p. 9). Even professional organisations…
Play is essential for children’s lives; author Hanna Rosin’s article “The Overprotected Kid” demonstrates how parenting styles and fear have inhibited children’s play, harming their development. Places like “The Land” are attempting to make up for the missing element in children’s play by giving them the freedom to explore and make their own decisions, and in turn accept the natural consequences. These missing aspects of play affect children physiologically. One of the culprits could be how parenting styles have changed, therefore the behavior of their children has changed. These changes did not happen randomly; they could base on the accessibility to information these days.…
After reading and researching I found out that the theorists I originally wrote about in my planning stage were still relevant. By doing further research I found out that there were other theorists which were more compelling. I made a change to one of my objectives as I thought it would be more effective because then I could show the results of what the practitioners views were. Objectives 1) I completed a literature review and I read a lot of books and done research on various websites.…
This "play" or "playing with toys" as young people creates a social background for each individual on how they react to others, and to the game or toy they are playing with, which promotes thinking skills, coordination, acceptance, and empathy for the level of achievement or difficulty each individual in each society may learn. There is also…
(2011) compared the occurrence and frequency of types of play in two metropolitan Sydney early childcare centres, one featuring natural outdoor elements and the other with a synthetic environment, to determine which offered the greater volume and opportunity for cognitive function. Through observation and data collection it was found that the natural outdoor space delivered significantly more potential for children’s learning as the natural world “provides a richer environment for learning and influences children’s opportunities for social interactions and nature play” (Dowdell et al., 2011). The children in a natural play space also maintained participation in activities for greater periods of time which allowed for richer and deeper learning and demonstrated the unlimited potential of nature to be a place where “there is always something new for children to discover” (Davis, 2010), whereas the synthetic play space showed a high number of children engaging in high risk behaviours. Although this study was small and objective, it the natural environment was found to give the children opportunities to enriched learning possibilities by providing them with a greater variety of elements for exploration and investigation and a place where children could contribute and make a mark on the…
The Power of Play, written by David Elkind, stresses the importance of play throughout children’s lives. He shows us that play is not all just fun and games, but it can also be used to development different milestones, play can also be used to make sense of the world around us, and different types of play can have therapeutic and psychological remedies to help children. Play is the baseline of all children’s lives and it needs to be treated as so and not overlooked as just a fun pass time activity. As a potential child life specialist, it would be part of my job to be able to help children either express themselves in the form of play or either use play to adverse hospitalization effects. So play becomes a very important part of a child life specialist job.…