How I can use my experience with this place for my own professional practice or how I will create opportunities and possibilities for my students is that since I now know the benefits of a place-based learning, I will definitely take my students outside in a way that will benefits their learning.

Some of the benefits of a place-based learning-

-       Students can gain better appreciation and understanding of the world around them.

-       Increases their engagement with their communities

-       Students are being challenged to see the world through ecological, political, economic and social lenses

-       Students can meet deeper learning outcomes
-       It also gives students an opportunity a ‘voice and choice’ in determining what, how, when and where they learn

-       It allows tailoring learning to each student’s strengths, needs and interests

Reading- Reading about the place was educative. Reading allows me to observe the information about the historical place and gain a lot of knowledge. 

Listening- listening the sounds that are in the place was a new type of learning. By listening it allows me to connect with the place in a deeper level and understand more of my place. 
In Reggio approach, teachers believe in a pedagogy of listening (Rinaldi,2011). 

Viewing- looking around the place and seeing the place in person was quite an experience. It allows me to appreciate and understand my place.

In this game, the ordinary gives ways to small moments of the extraordinary, transmuted by a magic that need not be invented, only allowed.

 

 

The game is played by waking, simply walking, through a place with no intent other than to play. You might want to take an hour, take a day, or take whatever time belongs to you. Maybe you think you never have time for walking but make away and find a way to make it. You may be surprised by your ability to conjure. 

 

As you walk, allows yourself to relax into the place. Allow the place to relax too to make something other than sense. This shift might usually take about twenty minutes to achieve.

 

Eventually you will pause, and perhaps smile, at something that has entered your awareness. Sight, sound, smell, sensation or concatenation thereof. For me, while I was walking around in the garden, I was seeing so many cactuses and my face was already lifting up with a smile because I love cactus and I was so happy to see them. In any other circumstances, this moment could likely be mundane. But now it is essential; it is perfect. It is beauty or meaning or mischief that you have made together with the City or a place that you visit to play.

 

“This is how the game begins.”

 

One day you may find that you are walking through the city, simply walking- and without realising it you have already begun with play.

 
 This is how the game begins." 
One day you may find that you are walking through the city, simply walking — and without realising it you have already begun to play.