Last week, I visited two subsidized apartment communities in North Philly. One was newly built and still leasing, and the ...

Sarai, age 3, proudly shares her artwork at LWB’s Early Childhood Development Center, where play-based lessons help children build confidence and curiosity. A teacher guides her students through a ...

Over the course of her career, Temple University's Kathy Hirsh-Pasek has spent a lot of time worrying not just about how to increase playtime in school, but also how to reach kids outside of school.

Professor Marina Bers, chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, has been teaching the course Technological Tools for Playful Learning every spring for the 20 years ...

In the year and half since the launch of ChatGPT, AI-powered edtech tools have flooded the market–but most, if not all, of these products may be missing out on the most exciting and creative ways to ...

These strategies help teachers set up engaging and enriching opportunities for literacy exploration throughout the day.

Evolutionarily speaking, we are built to enjoy learning. Neuroscientists (and those of us who spend time with young children) know this to be true—but institutionalized education tends to dim the joy ...

For children, playful learning is serious learning. “That’s how children learn best,” said Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp professor of education at the University of Delaware and ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Regina Robinson isn’t used to being asked what she wants out of her home. But for about a year, architects and designers had detailed discussions with her and other tenants at the ...

Not too many decades back, children’s libraries and museums contained books that the librarian had to retrieve from the stacks for a child to use or from glass cases of ceramic dolls and toys on ...

Whether it’s in schools, at home, or in the community, learning should be fun! Children love to explore and discover. And learning through play does not mean a sacrifice of rigor or loss of ...