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No Fun? No Learning.

December 3, 2015 By Will Richardson

Just read this:

Telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria, has introduced a new application that allows children to fulfill the long-sought dream of learning and having fun at the same time.

Um, sorry, but learning has always been fun. As Seymour Papert says, it may be “hard fun” at times. But for most things*, no fun = no learning.

*(Of course, the caveat is we do learn much through real adversity and tragedy, normally not “fun” things. But in most cases…) 

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