IAWA - roleplaying at school.
Marianne:
Quote from: Meguey on November 18, 2008, 04:31:03 PM
This is awesome! I do agree that we tend to underestimate the imagination, creativity, and capacity of children.
Have you seen The Big Night? It has some pretty solidly good conflict-resolution stuff for playing with kids. Basically, it's that a child who has a roll go bad gets to say how it goes bad. I'll find it and write it out for you if you like.
I definitely be interested, new ideas are what keeps things interesting:o)
Meguey:
Ok, I'll go digging!
Marianne:
Rightho so we did a second IAWA story with the kids. It went great but didn't uncover anything super new to report on.
However our 3rd foray into using IAWA with hyper 6 and 7 yr olds is taking some interesting twists and turns. Firstly the children decided that they wanted to write elements for their children's oracle. This turned out to be amazing, I was so surprised by the way the children phrased some of their ideas.. (and it was really good for teaching literacy ;) )
The elements (all written by the children) that were pulled out were:
A witches tower, full of traps and ghosts
The skeleton of a dragon, hiding it's real form by magic
A band of brave heroes, on another adventure.
Some silly journalists, in trouble as always.
So we brainstormed, drew pictures, wrote descriptions etc. The children have decided that it is definitely them that are the heroes and that they have been begged by the one jouranlist who has escaped the tower to go and rescue her friends.
They have got the idea of best interests and how all the best stories have characters with interests that clash.
The witches best interest is to keep the journalists captive and rescue her cat from the heroes.
The heroes best interests are to rescue the journalists and trap the witch in her own castle.
The dragon's best interest is "to swallow the heroes and trap them in another dimension which is full of it's own species" (spot the more able child there!)
The Journalists best interest is to get a great story all about the dragon and escape the witch.
Session 2 this afternoon...wish me luck :D
Ouroboros:
Good luck! I want to hear all about it. I have a session coming up this weekend too! It'll be educational to see how it compares to what the little ones have come up with.
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