Kuriosity LabWhy is Learning a Ball?
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Designing Games:
Part 1 The Mission
Playbooks are tools. What if a playbook about a ball could change the way you learn? Big claim? Beyond crazy? Yeah, it is. Okay, it changed, and is still changing, my world. And it's so much fun to learn this way! Want to learn how?
The Dodecahedron Mystery
... the story of a young man being tested on an unknown planet in pursuit of a great mystery.
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Experiments in Learning Differently
How? Follow the trail of your curiosity. Did you know that school originally meant “leisure?” Or that television, the telephone and Braille were all invented by teenagers? So, what are your interests? Where learning is fun? Check out these questions.
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“How could I have forgotten?!?!” I scold myself. “He’s found me! Where’s the book?” I quickly scan the surroundings. I spot the book on a table two steps away. I grab it and shove it under the bed. The noise grows to deafening. Just above the dome hovers a flying machine that has an insect body …
To David, Colin, and Blake for your belief and energy, and to every wonderfully “weird” student that I was fortunate to connect with. By searching for your truth and authenticity, you challenged me to do the same! Keeping the faith! Episode 1 Alien I’m a contrarian. If I told go one way, I go the …
Darkness is turning to light. It has taken longer to get here than I had predicted. But I have made it before dawn—just barely. I’m too exhausted to celebrate. As good as it is to finally arrive, I still have no idea what my mission is other than delivering this book to the observatory. The building’s …
Welcome, Knowledge Explorers! This is “Learning Is a Ball Theater’s” Playbook based on the video, “The Mission.” This learning is based on play. Why? At The Kuriosity Lab, we have discovered that people learn just as much—if not more—through play. As famed educator, Joseph Chilton Pearce, lucidly stated: “There is no part of play where …
A mom and her son arrived at my classroom after school ended. The youngster of 12 or 13 refused to write. He was attending a prestigious and expensive private school. So, we went to work. I used all my best techniques. None worked. We were both frustrated. I knew his brother was star on his …
We’ve led you down a path that promised infinite possibilities. Unfortunately the game was one of finite possibilities. And finite games always have winners and losers. We were fooling ourselves and misleading you pretending that it was an infinite game. That is something our generation needs to take full responsibility. Not to lament the past, …