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Play (activity) Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. [ 1] Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds .
Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. [ 1] There is much more to cooperative learning than merely arranging students into groups, and it has been described as "structuring positive interdependence." [ 2][ 3] Students must work in groups to ...
Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments. [ 1]
Stages of play is a theory and classification of children's participation in play developed by Mildred Parten Newhall in her 1929 dissertation. [ 1] Parten observed American preschool age (ages 2 to 5) children at free play (defined as anything unrelated to survival, production or profit). Parten recognized six different types of play:
Collaborative learning. Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together. [ 1] Unlike individual learning, people engaged in collaborative learning capitalize on one another's resources and skills (asking one another for information, evaluating one another's ideas, monitoring one ...
Social emotional development represents a specific domain of child development. It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others. [ 1] As such, social emotional development encompasses a large range of ...
Positive interdependence. Positive interdependence is an element of cooperative and collaborative learning where members of a group who share common goals perceive that working together is individually and collectively beneficial, and success depends on the participation of all the members. [ 1][ 2] In contrast to negative interdependence (i.e ...
Modder Skelux has devised a way to bring what's likely the most requested feature for the Nintendo 64 classic Super Mario 64: two-player cooperative play. Modified using an emulator--a program ...