{"id":99057,"date":"2026-08-19T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99057"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:16:37","slug":"bring-playfulness-into-teaching-for-collaboration-and-creativity-taurel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/08\/19\/bring-playfulness-into-teaching-for-collaboration-and-creativity-taurel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring playfulness into teaching for collaboration and creativity [Taurel]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/campus\/bring-playfulness-teaching-collaboration-and-creativity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bring playfulness into teaching for collaboration and creativity<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from timeshighereducation.com by Isabel Taurel<br \/>\n<em>In learning, playfulness is often overlooked. Yet it could be key to embedding the soft, \u2018human\u2019 skills students will need for the future. Isabel Taurel shows how<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The same is true in higher education. Students who are able to rediscover a playful mindset leave the classroom with something far more valuable than a good grade. They develop confidence, are more willing to contribute unusual ideas and learn how to adapt when the unexpected happens. These are precisely the qualities employers increasingly tell us they need.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Yet the creative and cultural industries demonstrate their growing value. Success increasingly depends on collaboration, adaptability and creative confidence, all qualities that are fostered through arts-based learning and increasingly sought in every kind of workplace.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Playfulness isn\u2019t a distraction from serious learning. It\u2019s one of the most powerful ways we have of preparing students for a future in which the most valuable skills may be the most deeply human ones: listening, presence, responsiveness, imagination and a capacity to create meaning together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring playfulness into teaching for collaboration and creativity &#8212; from timeshighereducation.com by Isabel Taurel In learning, playfulness is often overlooked. Yet it could be key to embedding the soft, \u2018human\u2019 skills students will need for the future. Isabel Taurel shows how The same is true in higher education. Students who are able to rediscover a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,843,115,302,271,343,848,141,71,500,3,419,119,102,7,838,79,423,279,405,38,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-africa","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-creativity","category-education","category-emotion","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-faculty-staff","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-liberal-arts","category-love-of-learning","category-participation","category-play","category-uk","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99059,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99057\/revisions\/99059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}