Learning through sport - Play with Purpose

I am in the midst of designing the second block of pre-season training with a state-league Australian football-AFL womens team. I thought to see what Google Gemini would come up with in response to a prompt to design a practice episode based on my 2014 theory-into-practice paper: Informing Game Sense pedagogy with constraints-led theory for coaching in Australian football (availabe   here ). Below, I reckon, Gemini did a pretty good job of getting to the key ideas in the paper.  Gemini summarised the main ideas of the paper as: The Core Philosophy: "Thinking Players" The paper argues for a shift from linear "skill-drill" coaching to a non-linear, complex systems approach . Key Framework Focus: Using the game as the starting point. Strategy: Asking questions rather than providing answers. Skill: Technique meeting the context requirements of the moment of play - a functional solution Four Steps 1.  Representative Design  Practice must "look and feel" like...