Puppetools
Puppetools is a worldwide learning community that shapes and directs its own training and teacher-led research focused on play. With its "play language" and play-based communication system, Puppetools equips teachers with the tools and know-how of play-based communication in classrooms ranging from pre-K to college-level foreign language.
Recognized internationally as a model of applied brain science, Puppetools has advanced play as a foundational "learning birthright". In its study of puppet play, Puppetools has identified a powerful wavelength of brain-directed communication energy to which children are innately tuned.
The Puppetools website is listed on the OECD page for "Brain and Learning related websites" as a "dynamic, didactic website which promotes the science of play through the medium of puppets."
Puppetools.com
The Puppetools website:
- Hosts a Distance Training Workshop. Users include a growing community of innovators, education leaders and classroom trailblazers who partner with us to bring the power of play into their work using the visual and symbolic "language of play".
- Showcases the work generated by workshop partners who are advancing and benefiting from the applied science of play in learning and communication.
Origins and history
Challenges
Research
In 2005 an article in the Journal of Child Neurology featured a pilot study conducted by Puppetools and the Children's Hospital of The Kings Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia monitoring blood volume in the brain during various activities.