Great presentation from the TED Talks.
Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play
Talked about the need to engage in:
- playful exploration
- playful building
- playful roleplaying
- Started with an exercise – asked the audience to take 30 seconds to draw a picture of the person sitting next to them. The audience was full of laughter and lots of apologies for their efforts. His point was that adults are worried about being judged for their ideas, while kids doing this same sort of exercise don’t apologize, they’re proud of their creativity. (more…)
