School a place of fun learning...

A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.It’s where we begin active, deliberate and rational participation in a citizen community; and learn how to use the instrument of citizenship to manage, if not eradicate, our inner selfishness, our petty private passions, our personal interests. It’s where we feed and nurture the better part of our natures by channeling the collective efforts toward a higher, nobler purpose: the common weal.

School is a wonderful place for kids to learn, play, have fun, and stay out of trouble. Because“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth learning can be taught.” The objective of education is learning, not teaching. Fun learning tries to please the students so they can be happy. It also encourages students to form a more healthy environment.  It includes the several activities.

A student commented, "Life is painful and hard enough.  There's no good reason why school should be hard and painful as well."  This student misses the point.  All those years in school are supposed to be preparation for life, not an escape from it.  If it's all, or even mostly, fun and games, it can hardly accomplish this goal because life is not all, or even mostly, fun and games.  Besides, if all we do in school is play, our lives in the years beyond school will be even harder and more painful.

The activity based learning is a  great way to engage students with something they participate in by choice during their downtime. “It’s a growing trend all across education,” “The idea of play in learning has been around for a long time,” Shapiro says. “For some reason, it ends after early elementary school. What we’ve seen is that kids much more engaged than traditional ­learning. The ­content is the same; it’s a different vehicle to get them to the same place, and they get there with a deeper understanding.”

It’s not always easy, though. “We get push-back from people who think game play is too challenging or see it as entertainment, not education,” “They worry that students may focus too much time on figuring out how to play and beat the game, rather than the ­educational content.”

But play is an ­important method for learning. “We play with objects and ­concepts to see how they work. If we mess up, it typically doesn’t hold serious ­consequences. Making failure fun is an ­important part of games and should also play a role in learning.”

 Most of us don't purposely make life itself difficult.  We seek happiness and contentment, not misery and pain.  We seek entertaining and interesting activities and shun drudgery and boredom.  Nevertheless, we learn from experience that a certain amount of misery, pain, drudgery, and boredom is unavoidable.  We may try to minimize these elements, but no human being has successfully eliminated them.  That's the way it is.

Ironically, the more we work in school, the more likely we will be to minimize the negatives of later life.  We become more adept at converting boredom into something interesting.  Obviously, the more interests we have (something that education is supposed to provide), the less likely we are to be bored.  The more skills we have (something else that we develop largely through education), the less more likely it is that seemingly insurmountable difficulties will become merely challenges that we can meet, often with considerable satisfaction that we have met them.

Students play a vital role in helping to design the curriculum, formulate the questions, seek out (and create) answers, think through possibilities, and evaluate how successful they — and their teachers — have been. Their active participation in every stage of the process is consistent with the overwhelming consensus of experts that learning is a matter of constructing ideas rather than passively absorbing information or practicing skills.

About the Author:
The Author is Ms. Komal Verma, Teacher, Blooming Buds
www.bloomingbudsmws.com