e-learning… Online education – Will it revolutionise delivery of education? 27 Aug 2009 A recent study on online education for the US Department of Education has concluded that “On average, students in online learning conditions perform better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” The…
Curriculum… Text-books as curriculum 14 Aug 2009 A long time ago I read, “Teachers are designers”. It has taken me years to understand the implications of that simple sentence. As a teacher who has taught across the…
Curriculum… National Curriculum Framework (2005) – who’s listening? 18 Jun 2009 The National Curriculum framework (2005), a watershed document, provides a basis for radical changes in the Indian education system. The Indian Education Review (Volume 44, No.2, July 2008),the latest published…
Differentiated Learning The What, How and Why of Differentiation in Classroom 5 Jun 2009 1 in every 3 students in the US is a dropout, not because they are dumb but because they are bored and schooling expects them to adapt their learning to…
Teacher Training Inquiry-based teaching 18 May 2009 “The school needs to have more student-initiated inquiries than teacher-driven ones”, was the observation of the visiting team of IB experts who had come to study classroom practices in the…
Education Private tuitions – a reflection of falling teaching standards in India 9 May 2009 A survey conducted by Assocham Social Development Foundation has found that falling teaching standards and fear of poor performance in school and national level assessments drive urban Indian middle class…
Technology in Education Digital Classrooms – Learning “from” and “with” Technology 29 Apr 2009 Different technologies serve different purposes in the classroom and therefore play different roles in a students learning. For example, word processing and e-mail promote communication skills; database and spreadsheet programs…
Technology in Education A teacher that can be replaced by a machine, should be 22 Apr 2009 I recently watched a video where the presenter talked about some experiments carried out in rural areas of North India titled "Hole in the Wall”. The hypothesis of the experiment was,…
