Caine's Arcade I found the video above to be very inspirational. Nowadays so many children spend hours on their phone, watching television, or playing video games. I remember when I was a child and how much fun I would have with just a plain old cardboard box. Well this video takes cardboard box creativity to a whole new level. It proves how porous young minds can be. This boy Caine grew up in a run down neighborhood in a family that did not have a lot of money. He didn’t let that affect his passion for arcade games. He took plain cardboard boxes, a pair of scissors, and packing tape, and created multiple different types of homemade arcade games. He paid attention to detail when visiting the real arcades and took note of the different characteristics of the machines. The games that used a ball had a ball return on it. If you won the game, then Caine would crawl inside the box and feed tickets through a slot as if it were a real machine. When he was given feedback that the soccer game was too easy, he used his own army men toys to add a goalie to make the game a little more difficult. He created his own claw machine with an S shaped hook and a track cut into the top of a box! It truly amazing me what children can accomplish when they aren’t forced inside of a pre-labeled box. Caine was given the opportunity to use his imagination powered by his passion to create something innovative. I think that is important to remember in the classroom. Students will naturally become creative thinkers and problem solvers if you give them something that they care about. So make the material relevant to them! Give them a reason to be interested in it. You will know if you succeeded because just like Caine, your students will say, “I was proud.” N. (2012, April 09). Caine's Arcade. Retrieved November 30, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&list=PLbRLdW37G3oMquOaC-HeUIt6CWk-FzaGp&index=5
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Kristen Runge
12/9/2016 08:42:35 am
I think it is important to provide your students with opportunities to use their imaginations, all throughout their education, at all grade levels. I agree with you when you say that students can reveal critical thinking skills when they are given something they are interested it. With this in mind, we as educators need to take the time to figure out what our students are interested in. Do you have any ideas as to how we can do this?
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