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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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Real and meaningful education

Last week unfolded itself in a very pleasant way making me more receptive and appreciative of the power of small - small towns, small schools and more importantly small steps…

A father’s letter to his son’s teacher

For a poor listener, yesterday it turned out that I am an avid eavesdropper. At the inconspicuous tailoring shop, I overheard a mother drilling and harassing her 3 years old…

Technology – a good slave but poor master

Yesterday I read about an alarming piece of news about the seemingly harmless iPods corrupting the minds and souls of our children. That made me step back and think about…

Playing to Learn, Learning to Play

Playing and learning are synonymous for children. Children of all ages develop cognitively, socially, emotionally and physically through play. Play provides them with an opportunity to create, invent, reason and…

Differentiated Learning…

ON CHILDREN

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 'Speak to us of Children.' And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and…

Differentiated Learning…

Rewarding Students

This one’s for you teachers! There is a raging debate in the education circles around the world, whether, rewards for students work or backfire. One comes across a wide spectrum…

World Digital Library – Potentially the most exciting e-learning resource

Publically launched in April 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) is easily the most exciting e-learning tool on the web. It exemplifies what Web 3.0 is about and its power…

Internationalism…

Ruminations of students-past and present

So far, we have used this space to highlight issues pertaining to education, voiced from our perspective. It is time to create some space for the primary stakeholders of our…

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Why ask questions

“The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way” ~ African Proverb

Birth of an institution

Once upon a time, there was a very young school in the land of long, cold winters and brief, short spring. Like any run-of-the-mill school, it was ambitious but clueless.…