Personal Branding - Research - Four Pillars of Play

6B2 - Research into the importance of play and creativity for children and within the classroom. 



Open Environments

Open environments are those in which the child gets to be the author and the medium is open to interpretation.

Designed to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play.

Letting children be the inventors of play.

Flexible Tools

The fact that people can find different ways of using technology and that the technology is flexible enough to allow for this exploration is the key for innovation and invention. The same should be true for physical materials in a child’s play environment. A crayon can be used for drawing anything, but it can also be melted and re-sculpted into something completely different.

Modifiable Rules

Promoting things like, had an original idea, created a new game on the playground, made up a story, solved a problem for a friend, or invented something uncommon from a common object.

Superpowers

Superpowers, by my definition, are the physical and mental skills that we develop to adapt and thrive in a complex world while exploring the creative opportunities made possible by global progress.