Writing a personal argument
Writing a personal argumentAn ideal toy provides a framework for creation. An ideal toy does not define itself as having any sort built-in culture meaning. A kit of abstract parts, for example, allows complete freedom of creation, but is structured in the way that the parts only go together in certain ways. A toy car, a movie figure, a teddy bear or a Barbie, is less open-ended, and constrains play in same way, because even a very young child has obtained some culture and perceptual responses to such objects. Toys that are promoted by or are associated with comic-book, television, or movie characters, etc. are the least free and open-ended, and constrain and limit creative play most narrowly. A child's play with a set of Star Wars toys is likely to be based on or at least related to his her experience oh the movies. Come and think of it, by this logic, the best toy is paper and something to draw and color with. The style of toys nowadays are following the above trend-creation, exploration, and imagination.
Quarks is one of the toys that is invented following by the above logic. The point of this toy is to make things work. For example, designing a vehicle, a helicopter, etc., anything you want and then using the various pieces to bring it off into as most high technology and most fashionable as possible. It allows you to minimize the structure for maximum function. It is an abstract, structured toy. It allows a child to construct, within certain limits, what that child see in his or her mind, and then to attach his or her own creation, exploration, and imagination to the construction. It is good for parents to join in the game, but they must not take over and encourage the children to play and learn in a particular way. This will weaken the child's creation, exploration, imagination and other resources that children should strengthen by play.
In brief, the child will take from a toy of what he or she is ready to take. If a parent or teacher sees that what the child is taking from that toy is not the possibilities that the adult believes ought to be present at that time, give the child's a developmental stage, an opportunity thought teaching for example. The child will take from the adult's example of what he or she is ready to take, and may use that example to form a new play behaviors. If any more directive attention is given to the child's play at this point, the activity is meaningless to be play.
KAPLA, award winner wooden construction blocks from France, is another kind of toys in the trend explained above. KAPLA -- a building block for creating many types of...
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