Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Posted on 25 November 2018 by Mitchel Resnick

How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today s society.In kindergartens these days, children spend time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint Kindergarten is becoming like the rest of school In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite the rest of school even the rest of life should be like kindergarten To thrive in today s fast changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively and the best way to do that is by focusing on imagining, creating, playing, sharing, and reflecting, just as children do in traditional kindergartens.Drawing on experiences from than thirty years at MIT s Media Lab, Resnick discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning experiences He tells stories of how children are programming their own games, stories, and inventions for example, a diary security system, created by a twelve year old girl , and collaborating through remixing, crowdsourcing, and large scale group projects such as a Halloween themed game called Night at Dreary Castle, produced by than twenty kids scattered around the world By providing young people with opportunities to work on projects, based on their passions, in collaboration with peers, in a playful spirit, we can help them prepare for a world where creative thinking is important than ever before. Free Read [ Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play ] By [ Mitchel Resnick ] – kino-fada.fr 1 Creative Learningp.4 Today s young people will be confronted with new and unexpected situations throughout their lives They must learn to deal creatively with uncertainty and change not only in their work lives, but also in personal lives how to develop and sustain friendships in an era of ever changing social networks and their civic lives how to participate meaningfully in communities that have ever shifting needs and boundaries p.6 Most people do not think of kindergarten as 1 Creative Learningp.4 Today s young people will be confronted with new and unexpected situations throughout their lives They must learn to deal creatively with uncertainty and change not only in their work lives, but also in personal lives how to develop and sustain friendships in an era of ever changing social networks and their civic lives how to participate meaningfully in communities that have ever shifting needs and boundaries p.6 Most people do not think of kindergarten as an invention, let alone an important invention But kindergarten is a relatively new idea less than 200 years old , and it r...While I wish the book was not specifically about Scratch online learning community and programming language I LOVE so many ideas and points brought up through each chapter I kept thinking, Yes Yes Yes , to myself as I was reading.I am intrigue...Hopeful Positive Some ideas arehopeful than others I think the author occasionally engages in overreach, but he s clearly a man who is doing a lot of good in the world, and he gets muchright than he gets wrong.I wanted to love it The ideas behind the lifelong learning program at MIT are very interesting but the author seemed to just keep going back to Scratch as if it is the only project worth talking about.In The Chronicle of Higher Education, the interview with the author, a prof at MIT, was promising enough to prompt me to acquire the book Resnick attempts to answer the question, How can we help young people develop as creative thinkers so that they re prepared for life in this ever changing world but there isn t anything particularly new or engaging here The structure of the book is based on the theory that Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play are the foundation for creative learning Do not In The Chronicle of Higher Education, the interview with the author, a prof at MIT, was promising enough to prompt me to acquire the book Resnick attempts to answer the question, How can we help young people develop as creative thinkers so that they re prepared for life in this ever changing world but there isn t anything particularly new or engaging here The structure of the book is based on the theory that Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play are the foundation for creative learning Do not expect to find data to suppor...I saw Mitch speak at a Scratch conference and I had watched his Tedtalk, so I know what I was getting into when I started this book YES, it is Scratch heavy, but this is his lifelong work The thing is he has some interesting ideas about breaking down the current education model He has big ideas like not having teachers dictate curriculum to students and small ideas like putting tables together in pods with chairs on wheels I found things to think about and things I could do now in this I saw Mitch speak at a Scratch conference and I had watched his Tedtalk, so I...Loved his ideas Did not like how he kept presenting his own businesses and work as the only back up for the ideas he presented Possibly could have been an excellent long article or essay, instead of an entire book.A delightful exploration of learning, creativity and the structure that allows for all of that to happen Lots of responses thoughts generated while reading this short book.Wonderfully simple but elegant description of the thinking behind Scratch and LLK s approach to creative learning The compare and contrast between the different ways people encourage creativity and motivation in children was fascinating.I discovered the book after reading and feeling completely changed by Seymour Papert s Mindstorms Mitchel Resnick was influenced by Papert, and I was curious what I could gleam from his life s work.I found myself nodding to much of the sentiment that learners construct knowledge rather than receive knowledge, that structured teaching and play is low risk andimportantly low reward, that you cannot unilaterally push for increased student performance and expect creative learning.The I discovered the book after reading and feeling completely changed by Seymour Papert s Mindstorms Mitchel Resnick was influenced by Papert, and I was curious what I could gleam from his life s work.I found myself nodding to much of the sentiment that learners construct knowledge rather than receive knowledge, that structured teaching and play is low risk andimportantly low reward, that you cannot unilaterally push for increased student performance and expect creative...

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

25 November 2018

Mitchel Resnick