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Play: the act of building new understandings in joy.

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Pedagogical documentation helps us to make learning and thinking visible for students and adults. What we document and how we document depends on the audience. Revisiting learning through documentation invites students to "see" experiences again and often extend their learning with new perspectives, new questions, making the documentation organic. Co-constructing the documentation with students invites students to make their thinking "heard".

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Educators support play by: observing, listening, trusting, reflecting, provoking, commenting, challenging, extending, wondering/inquiring alongside students, knowing curriculum in order to name it as it might unfold in play.

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Play is...

...children actively engaged, manipulating materials/objects, messy or not, sometimes loud and/or quiet, pursuing interests, socializing, discovery, testing, re-visiting, developing a better understanding of a concept or skill through play, working alongside and/or with peers and/or independently, indoors and outdoors, engages the senses...

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Play is like structured chaos...looks busy and random but students are learning with and from each other at the level of understandings that they are developmentally ready for.

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How do we best educate others on what "play" looks like and how it can help students learn?

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How do we support each other as we continue to figure out "play?"

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Busy, students interacting,

students around the classroom,

lots of differences in learning

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Lots of hands-on learning

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Collaboration, problem-solving,

interaction, trying, reflecting,

trying again

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Other questions or comments

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How, as educators, do we support this

"play" in the classroom?

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What does "play" mean?

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What does "play" look like?