I’ve just finished reading Rieber’s Article on designing learning environments that excite serious play. His article discusses the definition of play and what play can offer to the educational context, especially by way of learning through designing. I found the article interesting on two levels, though a little unfocused because of these two aspects. Firstly the concept of play as means by which things are learnt excites me incredibly, I’m a defiant individual and who hates being told what to do, another facet of this same characteristic is that I will not be defeated by anyone or anything, this has made me a resilient learner who has been able to survive his education through sheer refusal to give in. On the other hand, I have learnt myself a great number of things through interest, things that I have learnt more deeply and have sustained in my knowledge far longer than those things I have learnt so as to survive a course. For this reason the type of teacher I want to become is one who doesn’t have an air of forcing students into learning something, I want to inspire play from my students. To me, students will learn best, both in terms of understanding the knowledge taught to them and in terms of how well and how long they are able to use the knowledge/skills if they learn it through play. It’s great, to me, to have read that there is a movement in educational philosophy which values the fact that people play and learn through playing. Secondly the article discusses the benefits of using a designing for learning method, which also seems to be an encouraging and progressive form of education; one where students control their own learning and become specialists in fields relative to them through skill, interest and desire. The implementation of these two educational techniques will take an enormous shift in attitude for most teacher and an equally sized shift in the organisation of schools to accommodate the ’studio’ atmosphere Rieber describes. Overall I found this article uplifting and it gives me hope that teachers and students of the near future will both play in the classroom.