A new study from LEGO® Education shows that teachers believe learning through play is more effective than traditional methods, and students say they want more of it in the classroom. LEGO Education is ...

Social and emotional learning is crucial to childhood development. Unfortunately, children in areas affected by conflict and disaster are more likely to miss out on critical learning opportunities.

When learning starts to feel like play, education stops preparing kids for the future and begins letting them practice it. By 2035, forget about the traditional classroom; learning will feel more like ...

“Play is what makes kids, kids. It’s what they do,” says Allison Gopnik, human play researcher and psychology professor at ...

Children learn more through ‘guided play’ than from teacher-led instruction, according to a new study by experts at Cambridge University. A play-focused approach to learning, where children are ...

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One November morning, a little after 8 a.m., Jessica Arrow and 14 of her kindergarteners are sitting in a circle on a rug in her classroom at Symonds Elementary School here. Some sit cross-legged, ...

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Yet play runs on free energy. Without unpredictable, surprising timing, its mechanical punchline, the Jack-in-the-Box would ...

Six years ago, Lisa Forbes wasn’t sure how much longer she’d be able to stick it out as a professor. She felt stifled in the often-uptight university climate and worried she wasn’t fully engaging her ...

Connecticut teachers want you to know that “play-based learning” is not an oxymoron. For years child development and education experts have praised the benefits of play-based learning — a pedagogy ...

BENTON - Linda Baumgarte is the mother of two grown children. But she's helped shape the lives of thousands of youngsters during the past three decades - not to mention wiping countless runny noses ...