toys and games in education

A Reaction to Game Playing in the Classroom

When you grow older , you can sometimes forget what it was like to be a child . For some individuals , this is not cause for alarm . For someone such as me , it is important to understand how children may feel or react to certain educational games and toys . This is because I will need the proper insight into their feelings in to properly work with them Recently , I took part in a workshop that involved playing children 's educational games . This workshop truly opened my eyes

to how these games can effectively convey the information the classroom is intended to convey . Also , the game showed me just how much fun a classroom setting can be . Even though I have personally used games in my own classroom , since I was not a participant , some beneficial aspects of game playing had escaped me . One thing I did here was that if the learning environment is not fun , children will not learn . Thankfully there are a number of fun games that can appeal to the whimsy and joy children are know to possess

My own personal experiences with these games are as follows

I took part in a game session that involved teaching children about the digestive system . On a surface , this would seem like a difficult subject to teach . However , when we all took on the role of the various parts of the digestive system , a rather dry subject came alive . For example each...