This week was rather eventful. I shall start with today. Despite my serious sniffles and incessant cough, I attended a new media talk on "Learning through Play". It was recommended by my Eng prof and apparently I was the only one in her lect grp who was interested. I think she was pretty happy to see a familiar face. The talker, who is a supposed renowned game designer, was ok, but I could not get his points sometimes. Basically I have four great take-aways:
Four Freedoms of Play: Freedom to EXPERIMENT, freedom to FAIL (or to BREAK), freedom to TRY ON IDENTITIES and freedom of EFFORT (ie how much effort and time they wish to devote to play). Given these four freedoms, and the right lessons and methodology in play, the player will learn even more than by pure instructions. I believe in these freedoms too, but he just put it in concrete words for me. Also he added a new point. That play shld have no time pressure, and the same applies for education. Thats one main reason why education is failing us sometimes. The time pressure is a greater menace than we expect. At least now I have more insights on games.
Going to a choir concert with my cousin on the coming Sunday at the Esplanade. She was a member at the choir and somehow I seem to be the only free one to accompany her. The tickets dun come free though, at around 20+ but I believe I will enjoy it.
Last but definitely not least, will be Mom's bday. She shares the same day as me thus I always remember it. Just that this time, we have two more participants in the celebration this year. And I must thank them for making my mom so exceptionally happy this yr.
I gave mom seashells. It was an easy present cos I just packed the shells I took from Redang and placed them in nice containers. (The koala is not included, it just looked apt to be sitting there). We had Thai (my mom's fav) but the price is nowhere near her fav. Well its a rare event so splurging once in a while is fine. The cake was heavenly, arguably the best tiramisu in SG. Things are still doing well. There's a silver lining in every cloud.
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