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The Power to Choose What Students Learn, How They Learn and Whom They Learn From is Shifting from Educators to Learners

Learning in the 21st Century

Students learn better when they are engaged with their learning. Student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity and interest students show in their learning, driven by a sense of value in deepening their understanding. The 21st century model for teaching-learning is certainly very different from the century before.…Continue reading “Learning in the 21st Century”

Empowering students with their own learning

Students need to curate their own learning experiences

Learning is a skill and each of us engages with it differently. Students should be empowered to explore how they wish to engage with a lesson or topic or concept.

Learning is a skill…

Students today learn differently from their parents. Digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way Gen Z interacts with the world.

Schools need to explore ways technologies can help students be more focussed.

In a world where robotics innovation and AI will most certainly compete for jobs with humans,  our approach to education has not adapted to help Gen Z and Gen Alfa be competitive.

 

Are we equipping our students to co-exist with AI?

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Curriculum

Curriculum Design is Like Farming

9 May 20147 Sep 2018
Designing curriculum and instruction is like farming - it is cyclic. As in farming you plan, sow, nurture, harvest and use the evolved understanding and tools to start the next…
Education…

They Ask Me Why I Teach

6 Feb 20147 Sep 2018
They ask me why I teach, And I reply, Where could I find more splendid company? There sits a statesman, Strong, unbiased, wise, Another later Webster, Silver-tongued, And there a…
Education…

Nurturing a Dream-Fanning an Aspiration

1 Dec 20137 Sep 2018
Akal Academy (soon to be named - Akal World School), Baru Sahib has become the first authorized IB school in Himachal Pradesh. An ordinary sounding feat, right? Well.... Tucked away…
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Music and Language

2 May 201326 Dec 2014
I have always been musically inclined. My mother would motivate (read ‘bribe’) me with music and my day always started with the radio. As an educator, I persuaded (read ‘harassed’) my…
Book Review

Book Love by Melissa Taylor

17 Jan 20136 Sep 2018
Book Review Long ago, I was taught that children learn to read till about grade 3. By grade 3, they should be fluent readers (decoders of words and sentences) so…
Learner centric teaching

Teach children or curriculum?

16 Aug 20127 Sep 2018
Lately, we have been silent on the blog front as we untangled curricular confusion and cobwebs helping four schools under the same management spring clean their primary school curriculum. Over…
Education

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

11 Jun 20127 Sep 2018
"Most of what I really need to know about how to live  and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top…
Learner centric teaching

SEMBLANCE OF SCIENTIFIC SUPERIORITY

5 Jan 20127 Sep 2018
I have always struggled with the supremacy of sciences in the hierarchy of subjects in school curriculum, particularly the obeisance we accord them in Indian education setup. This struggle was…
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The Interrupted Child

19 Oct 20117 Sep 2018
Many years ago Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist and avid observer of children's play, wrote that at play a child "behaves above his daily behavior ... as though he were…
Play

Play for the sake of play

12 Sep 20117 Sep 2018
I have been meaning to write for some time. But my excuse for procrastination is a trespassing mind seeking clarity. In my first webinar I went on a learning trail…

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