Principles of iMedia Class - Creative Learning

Yesterday we were talking about creative learning and Gabriela asked to think of when we might have been engaged in it in the past. For me, when I was about seven, I got really sick so I couldn't go to school for about three months. My friend use to bring me my homework which my family helped me with to keep me from falling behind so I wouldn't have to stay back a year. Instead of just doing my homework with me, my mother use tried to come up with little games. One of the ways my mother helped me to learn Irish (and keep me entertained!) was to cut up cereal boxes into little squares and write Irish words on them. We then use to play different games with them to help me remember what they meant. One game was I had to go put the card by the object it represented, another was a game of memory where we had made pictures on cards too and I had to turn them over and try and make pairs, another game was my mother would say the word and I'd try and spell it, we came up with a good few ways to play! Using these games really helped me learn, especially since I had so much fun and also a big part of it was that I was involved in making up the games. Ahhh even to this day I can remember the yellow of the Weetabix box!