In response to Jenkin's Participatory Learning:
Play - The capacity to experiment with your surroundings as a form of problem solving
Performance - the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation - the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real world processes
The things we talked about in class this week reminded me of being in grade school and getting to play Cross Country Canada.
Although there weren't many computers to go around, and we usually had to share, Cross Country Canada was so much more fun than learning how to type. In the game you get to be a transport truck driver and you pick up and deliver commodities across Canada. The point of the game is to learn about provinces, territories, cities etc. while you develop skills in map reading, problem solving, geography, decision making and even... in a very abstract way.... programming.
Learning is quite possibly the most fun when you don't realize you're learning. When a student can be distracted from the fact that an application is teaching you school type things... learning is at its best.
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