Learn and play and play and learn! Sounds a little weird, but the phrase has deep-rooted meaning for the same. When playing a game, one has to remember the basic tricks like trial and error, ignore, punish, appease, praise, incentivise, banish, and the list goes on.

One has to learn these tricks in the long run as they can be of immense help at your workplace as well.  At the same time, you need to treat your workplace like a playground where you have to emerge as a winner. There could also be an opposite team who wants to defeat you, but your tactics that you learned at playground could help you here. Here you need to adopt different strategies to emerge as winner. Here are some of the benefits that could be seen as a result of learning from playing. 

Positive Reinforcement
This term indicates giving a ‘reward’ for good behavior. It includes training instructions or performing a skill. To ensure that positive behaviour is maintained, rewards could include simply commenting on good practice. It could also include offering a smile. By associating between good behaviour and positive feelings, athletes will always want to receive further rewards and will continue to behave well. So this approach should be adopted in management world as well and the employees performing the best should be rewarded.

Negative Reinforcement
The term ‘Negative reinforcement’ involves providing negative response to bad behaviour. The coaches can tell the athletes to stop a bad behavior. He should also be strict enough to say that if bad behaviour is continued, a negative consequence will definitely occur. An example in this reference is that the coach states his team that if the group is badly behaved, they won’t play the games which they enjoy the most.

Tactical Ignoring
If we stop safe inappropriate behaviour, it is like not being ‘rewarded’ with attention and will definitely lead to its stopping.

In the past, learning was considered to be boring and unexciting routine for students, whereas a number of colleges, schools and institutes are adopting innovative techniques to make learning a fun for their students. The hunger to gain knowledge and applying the knowledge in a daily basis are the secrets which make learning enjoyable. Those who are thirsty for knowledge and have a positive attitude towards it are the ones to progress in the lives by making a big difference in their career. Listed below are the top five ways that can make learning enjoyable:

• Introduce Technology 
  

The students really enjoy playing games, spending some time on technology and reading stuff online. It becomes a perfect platform for them to learn and share their knowledge. Introduction of technology also sharpens their brains and makes sure that the students are able to grasp the facts in an enjoyable manner. Nowadays, even teachers motivate students to play games on iPad or tablets that is correlated to the lessons and ask them to conduct online research or prepare power-point presentations instead.

• Include fun activities with lessons
  

Hands on learning activities along with entertainment are fun for students. Teachers should use this important aspect in building activity which helps the students to learn things faster.

• Incorporate experiments
  

Students enjoy learning new things along with experiments. It gives them a sense of independence and gives them deep knowledge of how things work from their own experience.

• Review Time along with games
  

Classrooms can be made exciting with games like hot seat, family feud and classroom jeopardy.

• Field trips

This is a great way to engage students outside of classrooms and they truly learn a lot with the help of field trips around the city. It keeps them motivated to learn new things and gain the knowledge about their applicability.

Teachers are now encouraging students to enjoy their learning so that they can excel in their education. Earlier, academics was seen as a boring and mundane routine for students. However, now a number of schools, colleges and universities are adopting innovative techniques to make learning a lot of fun for their students. We bring you the most interesting 5 ways to add some fun in your learning schedule:

1. Incorporate Technology

Students enjoy playing games, reading stuff online and generally spending time around technology. When they can learn while doing this, it becomes the perfect platform to share knowledge and learn. Teachers can let students play games on an iPad or a tablet that correlates with a lesson, ask them to conduct a research online or create PPT presentations versus lectures with a lot of pictures and videos to keep them interested.

2. Conclude Lessons with a Fun Activity

Hands-on learning activities are a lot of fun and entertainment for students. Teachers can use this aspect to create an activity after a lesson that might be boring. When students are involved in an activity, they tend to pick up the lesson faster.

3. Experiments

Students thoroughly enjoy their learning when they conduct certain experiments. It gives them a sense of freedom and they learn immensely from their own experiences.  This is a great way to get students involved in learning science.

4. Games During Review Time

If students don’t enjoy review time in schools, they can be made exciting with games like classroom jeopardy, family feud and the hot seat.

5. Field Trips

This is a great way to engage students outside of classrooms and they truly learn a lot through field trips around the city. This helps students to connect book knowledge with outside world and thus, they get ready for a better future.

By making learning fun for students, it keeps them motivated to learn and helps them accomplish success in their careers ahead.

It is a well-known fact that water helps sustain and preserve life. While three quarters of the earth is covered with water, the sad part is that changes in lifestyle have led to pollution of many water bodies. As a result, many lands suffer either from water scarcity or lack of pure water. It therefore becomes very vital to understand the importance of water conservation, both in terms of preservation of water bodies as well as in sustaining supply.

Why Water Conservation Is Important

There are three primary reasons why water conservation is important. First, when water is conserved, it is preserved. This means that when less water is wasted, less water goes through sewage systems and gets polluted. This reduces contamination of ground water and preserves the ecosystem.

A second reason for the importance of water conservation is that it allows for efficient planning of water resources for the present as well as future. Local planning bodies will not be faced with the need to consider ways to produce clean water at the expense of tax-payers. Rather, they will only need to monitor ways in which the existing supply can be efficiently used and distributed.

The third reason why water conservation is important is that it leads to a huge amount of financial savings over time. In most cities, clean water comes at a price. Conservation of water leads to a reduction in the costs paid to obtain it. Apart from this, electrical costs are also reduced when appliances that use water are not used carelessly. 

Although, the fact that motion and development are universal is indisputable, there are two approaches to an understanding of the world process, two conceptions of development: metaphysical and dialectical. The dialectical conception of development is the richest one. It answers the fundamental questions of the world outlook: on the source of motion and development, their nature, mechanism, form and direction.

The metaphysical conception misunderstands the source of motion and development, sees development as a simple increase or decrease in that which already exists, makes absolute the element of stability, and fails to understand the contradictory nature of motion and development and so on. The antithesis was shown between the dialectical and metaphysical conceptions. Two elementary thoughts of development (evolution) are: development as increase and decrease, and as repetition, and also development as unity of opposites. In the very first conception of self-movement, motion, its driving force, its motive, its source, remains in shade (or it can be presumed that this source comes from external-God). In the second conception the chief attention is directed precisely to knowledge of the source of self-movement. The first conception is lifeless, pale and dry. The second is living.

The metaphysical conception of development expounded by present-day bourgeois philosophy has a definite class purpose, seeking to emasculate the revolutionary content of dialectics, to present development in such a way as to discard or distort the idea of social progress, to show that the exploitive society is eternal and that class struggle is useless, and to disprove the doctrine of mankind’s inevitable transition to socialism and communism.

Materialist dialectics is essentially revolutionary. It teaches people to see all processes and phenomena of the surrounding world in motion and development. In its most profound and ample reflection of the actual processes going on in nature and the society, it is a powerful instrument for their scientific cognition and revolutionary transformation.

Any science or knowledge is not only the result of past cognition, but also an instrument for discovering new truths and attaining a fuller and deeper reflection of reality. This means that any human knowledge, if used for acquiring new knowledge, is a method for acquiring it. One could say in this sense that any general or particular theory is also a corresponding general or particular method of cognition and activity. The opposite is equally true; any method has a theoretical aspect and is of theoretical importance.