论儿童游戏的本质及其教育意义

On the Essence of Children's Play and Its Implications to Education

瞬息万变的数字技术和游戏正在通过控制儿童的时间、注意力和认知习惯来改变他们的思维与交往方式。尽管如此,数字化儿童游戏不能被简单归类于“精神废物”,它们具有深刻的时代内涵。游戏是儿童人性自由的表达,是儿童创造性的表现,是儿童的有规则活动,游戏就是儿童的工作。因此,游戏中蕴含着丰富的教育精神、独特的教育方式与多元化课程形态。这些教育价值的实现,需要重构游戏与教育的关系,基于高阶思维实现游戏课程化,要让游戏成为儿童的深度学习方式和儿童的思想实验,以此实现快乐学习与深度学习的真正融合。

The ever-changing digital technology and games are transforming children's modes of thoughts and communications through controlling their time,attention,and cognitive habits.Nonetheless,children's play cannot be simply treated as“spiritual residues”,which has the profound connotations.Playing games is the free expressions of children's humanity,children's performance of creativity,children's rule-based activities,and children's work.And so games contain rich educational spirits,unique educational modes,and plural curriculum forms.In order to embody these educational vales appropriately,we should reconstruct the relationship between play and education,change play into curriculum based on high-order thinking,make play as children's styles of deeper learning,and transform digital games into children's thought experiment.Based on these strategies,we will truly integrate children's happy learning and deeper learning.