Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
This paper presents an experience conducted by the writer within the Support Specialization Course of Roma Tre University in order to investigate whether and to what extent play is tolerated within a group of adults in training. More specifically, starting from the principles and methodology of Open Education, a meeting of the Educational Offer Extension was structured with the aim of constructing the IEP through the use of the new models. The reasons why it was decided to design and experiment such an activity are to be found in the sort of distrust towards play, which, wrongly considered a distracting rather than a motivating factor for learning, is increasingly abandoned in educational and training contexts. In these, in fact, playfulness seems to be present in inverse proportion to the age of the learners: the older one becomes, the less one plays. Let a group of teachers immerse themselves in a gamified experience appeared, in the eyes of the writer, to be a valid opportunity to give play the seriousness that is proper to it (Huizinga, 1946) and, consequently, to imagine that gamified activities could be employed in more increasing numbers at school.
