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Playful Learning - Let's look deep into this

Here in Brazil, playful learning is a LEARNING RIGHT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Children have the right to PLAY in different ways, in different spaces and time, with different partners (children and adults). Children should observe, question, create hypotheses, conclude and create while they PLAY. As the child is still learning to deal with the world beyond their family, play has to be elaborated and purposeful.

We can also note the importance of PLAY from the impeccable point of view of the father of the Maker movement - Seymour Papert, whom you have read about in the previous pages. In the evolution process from the world of manipulatives to the digital world, at the MIT Media Lab, Papert coined the term constructionism. Children learn best when they make their own project, building their own ideas and describing their own solutions to the problems - literally, merging the idea of learning by doing and the digital media.  

More recently, with the advances in 3D printing technology, connectors and construction toys have been created on demand. What was once thought of by Dewey, Froebel and Pestalozzi, using natural materials, blocks, fittings or cardboard boxes, lays in our hands the possibility of creating new forms of play.