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Playful Inventions and Explorations: What's to Be Learned from Kids?

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Uploaded by on Apr 30, 2010

With their boundless curiosity, fertile imagination, and natural mastery of the art of self-directed learning, children have much to teach adults about creativity and innovation. That's perhaps even more true with today's "digital natives," says developmental psychologist Edith Ackermann, whose work explores—and exploits—the intersections of play, learning, design, and technology. An educator and researcher, Ackermann has consulted for LEGO and the LEGO Learning Institute for more than 20 years and worked under the direction of Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist renowned for his studies on children at play, at the Centre International d'Epistémologie Génétique. She has taught at Harvard, MIT, and other universities.

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  • Get the audio from this tune at speedyconversion doht cohm.

  • Very interesting... though she missed out the promised bit re: play and designing spaces..."I skip"! Oh dear... and doesn't seem to understand all of the questions fired at her especially unanswered there was the question about suggestions for helping bring a hands-on experience to children stuck in hospital.. well, at least her English is better than my German :).

  • @balthierg About 85% of youtube videos violate some kind of copyright too I'm sure.

  • Wonder Pets is the only thing kids need to know.

  • thumbs up if you watched the whole thing!! LOL JK NO ONE DID! lmao

  • @balthierg ya there is a large group of videos on here of people just trying to become the next "Jackass"

  • @MrSkuddles well no i dont think everyone is doing stupid stuff on youtube. There are lots of very creative videos. But you cant deny that it seems youtube is the place to go to find videos of someone jumping into a pool from their roof.

  • @balthierg if you think every one on you tube is using it to do "stupid stuff",

    then please take a look at youtube.com/user/pogobat

  • This is what i think youtube was really meant to be, a place for showing people around the world things like this. A place to feed peoples creativity, share interesting things around the world in video form. Rather than just videos of people doing stupid stuff.

  • LOOOOOOL listen to 3:20 very carefully.

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