The new wave of educational technology will leverage our
greatest natural resource: the curiosity inherent in every
child. Project Play Experience - Nurturing A Child’s Interests
Young children are often excited to extend their play,
developing focus through continued exploration and discovery.
How can we nurture this desire? One way is knowing when and how
to guide free play into project play mode. I recognise a cluster
of ‘related play’ and think of it like a focused ‘mini-project’
based on a child’s specific play interest. By extending and
supporting a child’s interest in their free play activity and
exploring an idea or interest a bit deeper in the form of a
project, their play can shift into longer periods of motivated
focused play, where they learn it is possible to discover even
more. A free play activity may be over and done with, named,
dated, and retired to the wall or stored away. But what happens
when they build on and continue to extend these activities? What
if they keep projects accesssible for