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Professor Mitch Resnick shows off the building blocks of creative play, including LEGO bricks and a toy assembled with the "cricket," a small computer processor powered by a nine-volt battery.
Resnick blows out the candles on the singing birthday cake, an imaginative toy constructed by kids using the cricket, felt and other parts.
The outside of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Graduate and undergraduate students pour over research at the Lifelong Kindergarten Project and other studies, located inside MIT's Media Laboratory.
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| LEGO Playtime Podcasts is a series of shows that examines the importance of creative play in early childhood.
In our first show, we visit and talk with Mitch Resnick, a professor at MIT's Media Lab. For two decades, Professor Resnick has been studying the relationship between play and learning. His work at MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts centers around a simple question: what happens when you encourage kids to be creative thinkers, rather than passive learners?
Download Podcast #1
Mitch Resnick on creative play
(17:25 / Audio / 16.1MB)
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