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Play with Me Not with PC
The outdoors is the every best place for primary school children to practise and master emerging physical skills. It is in the outdoors that children can fully and freely experience motor skills like running,leaping,and jumping. It is the most appropriate area for the practice of ball handling skills,like throwing,catching,and striking.In the modern and technological 21st century, traditional outdoor games are about to be forgotten by kids all over the European countries and in our country. In many of European countries,primary school children and youngsters no longer participate in time-honoured pastimes like hopscotch, blind man's bluff and marbles with over half of kids saying their favourite games are the computer games.Our project aimed at keeping the children away from the anti-social and violonce games of the computers and uplifting the forgotten traditional outdoor games in each partner's country played by children through the study and analysis of local and international children games,famous shadow plays ( such as Karagöz and Hacivat),paintings of games and songs of games. Also, our project encouraged us to develop team work skills, imagination problem solving techniques among all students and teachers.In addition, all of our students had the opportunity to improve their English, and to develop ICT skills by the help of communicating with new European citizens and using the new technologies such as blogs, chatrooms, video conferences , and e-mail exchanges. Moreover, learning was fun and enjoyable by means of games as the children liked playing games.