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8 Ways To Have Fun While Learning

8 Ways to Have Fun While Learning

Learning in a fun way will help children think about everything from a different perspective. They will learn to explore and discover various things. They will develop their creativity and learn to think outside the box.

Though the idea of self-development is exciting, the process is usually a bit dull. There’s a lot of hard, boring work to do before you can reap the rewards.

Sometimes it’s tough to motivate yourself. We all get sad when we have to learn for tests and essays, but you need to motivate yourself and always think about the good things after.

Winston Churchill said, “Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught”. This is how most of us see learning and development. That’s because the approach to training hasn’t evolved since Churchill was yawning at the back of a classroom. The thought of accessing an online learning platform probably doesn’t fill you with a sense of giddy joy.

Ideally all students should be motivated to learn, rather than being motivated to get good grades, and gaming is a way in which this can be achieved. By employing gaming, we can also move away from the ‘memorizing facts’ educational model that has come in for criticism of late.

Research shows that having fun while learning avails unique cognitive resources, associates reward and pleasure with information, strengthens and broadens memory networks, and toggles between 2 basic neural modes – one for diffused mind-wandering and the other for focused attention.

Our teachers at Pegasus ELS teach content by making up songs, doing creative hands-on projects, learning through activities done on the active board, and researching and learning on iPads.  Our students are rarely sitting still… they are always actively learning.

Advice for teachers: Be open to your students’ creativity. Variety and creativity are the best ways to ensure learning stays fun. Give your class the freedom to modify assignments and projects as long as they run the changes by you first. You may find that their ideas give a unique twist to a lesson.

The theory behind educational fun comes down to this: children are born with a hunger for knowledge about the world around them. So just keep encouraging curiosity in the classroom and you’ll see excellent results!

Fun learning is based on the fact that is almost inarguable: learning doesn’t begin on the first day of kindergarten. It starts at birth. The 100 million or so cells in a newborn’s brain allow infants to soak in knowledge just by observing the world, by hearing the sound made by a rattle or seeing their mother’s face.

Here are 8 ways to have fun while learning:

  1. Listen to good music. …
  2. Turn it into a game for yourself. …
  3. Turn it into a game with others. …
  4. Use nice stationery. …
  5. Try roleplay. …
  6. Study somewhere different…
  7. Challenge yourself…
  8. Write comics, short stories or songs…

 

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