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Can we play outside?

Can we play outside?

April 12, 2014


In an increasingly technology fueled world, the most pressing challenges facing our society and its market leaders today will require solutions that best leverage what humans can do that computers cannot.  

Have you ever seen a machine play?  

The roots of how we learn to become creative, independent and entrepreneurial thinkers starts when we are children and more specifically is learned through how we play as children.  This Forbes article, "Why Playful Learning in the Key to Prosperity" persuasively states that our children are losing recess and other times of creative play in favor of increasing time on task for knowledge accumuation, structured learning activities and measured test taking generating a "creativity crisis" right when our societal demands on such creativity have never been higher.