Play Plays a Deep Role

Play really seems to play a deep role. If you want some one to be able to be flexible, to say, ok, i didn't learn how to do this particular thing, but now can i apply what i did to something else? So for the robots, for example, the robots who had played, you could take off one of their arms,. and they would still be able to figure out how to reach for the cloth. And that's a good model for the things that play can do in general. Alison said that whereas younger children learn well through play and exploration, older kids learn best through an apprenticeship.