Researcher Reminds Us: Play to Learn, Duh!

On the benefits of play for learning, or play as learning. See for yourself.

Over the past 20 years, scientists have come to understand much more about how children learn. Jay Giedd, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, has spent his career studying how the human brain develops from birth through adolescence; he says most kids younger than 7 or 8 are better suited for active exploration than didactic explanation. “The trouble with over-structuring is that it discourages exploration,” he says.

Source: Let the Kids Learn Through Play – The New York Times