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Goodness is its own reward. But as a bonus, it makes us healthier.
Sakis Koukouvis's insight:
Good Health Means Playing Well With Others
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“If children haven’t had contact with nature, they never develop a relationship with natural environment and they are unable to use it to cope with stress,” Dr Bird said. As a consequence, the current generation of children may be much less stress resistant and at greater risk of depression and anxiety.
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Besides being fun, play is used by children as a way to practice skills and scenarios they may face in life.
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Plays well with others. There’s a reason that attribute is lauded, and it turns out to have evolutionary roots.
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Tech futurist and game designer Jane McGonigle on how computer games can help the fight against AIDS, heal disabilities, increase optimism, and make us better people.
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Obsessive gamers’ hours at the computer have now topped scientists’ efforts to improve a model enzyme, in what researchers say is the first crowdsourced redesign of a protein.
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Research shows that our first years of life shape our ability to play well with others.
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An iPad game concept called Pig Chase would allow humans to play with pigs by steering a light projected on the walls of pens. Such a game might raise awareness of farming and animal welfare issues.
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Defying the idea that technology creates a passive experience, Sifteo cubes engage users with games and encourage them to play and think nimbly with exploration-oriented problem solving.
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Children should have plenty of opportunities to play. * Even young children have too few such opportunities these days, particularly in school settings.
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Playful behavior is widespread in mammals, and has important developmental consequences. A recent study of young chimpanzees shows that these animals play and develop much the same way as human children.
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Playfulness in males signals that they are not aggressive and would not harm the mother and the offspring. So females would prefer playful and harmless males. And playfulness in females signal health and fecundity, according to Professor Chick. On this basis, adult playfulness seems to be attractive to the opposite sex.
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BFA Music Tech Thesis by Colin Honigman. An interactive audio/visual installation that uses a Kinect camera for body tracking, transplanting user from physical space into a virtual space with playable objects.
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A research project just completed by Murdoch University lecturer Caroline Nilson has suggested that encouraging artistic expression in children may play a key role in establishing critical thinking skills.
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Our results draw attention to the possibility that play might serve a critical function in the transmission of human culture by providing a mechanism for arbitrary ideas to spread between children.
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Parents and teachers will have been indoctrinated into the concept of play as a learning tool. It is important (we are told) for young children to have play-time in order to develop - gross motor s...
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Psychologists are learning that the brain stays agile well into middle age, retaining the ability to learn new skill sets and take on different points of view by building new neural connections. And nothing is more important to maintaining a healthy brain than receiving an education, say psychologists. Up to age 75, mental tests demonstrate that 'people with college degrees performed on complex tasks like less-educated individuals who were 10 years younger.' In other words, learning keeps you young.
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This video (via Al Dove on twitter), which appears to be from Russia, shows a crow (can anybody confirm the identity of the bird?) engaging in an activity that can only be described as play. There is at least some scientific evidence (behind a paywall) that corvids, as well as some species of parrots and other social birds, do engage in play-like behaviors. This particular instance is remarkable as it does not only show play, but also a form of tool use!
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Think twice before limiting your kids’ video play; then don’t. By Peter Gray...
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Letting go of inhibitions: Learning to draw from a four-year-old.
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For all the work that’s gone into developing educational media, even the most stimulating TV shows and games leave kids stationary.
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Children's play is actually a form of learning, a way to investigate the causal mechanisms in the world around them. "Exploratory play is a complex phenomenon," write the authors of the new study, "presumably subserving a range of functions other than the generating informative evidence...However, to the extent that children acquire causal knowledge through exploration, the current results begin to bridge the gap between scientific inquiry and child's play." The task for parents and teachers is to present knowledge while preserving a sense of uncertainty.
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