Lawyers replacing attorneys After decades of killing low-end jobs in retail, travel, banks, and manufacturing, software is finally doing people’s bidding by creating a world with fewer lawyers. Lawyers are proving to be just another breed of knowledge workers susceptible to replacement by Artificial Intelligence. New automation technologies are reshaping the law profession by allowing […]
To the extent that learning maths is more about sharpening the logical thinking, there must be more preferred ways to structure the methods and milestones in the achievement of the learning goals in math. The evidence on the ground – the poor performance of children in maths, across the world – also dictates that there […]
Let us recollect that there are only four vehicles for learning – hearing (lectures), seeing (demonstration, pictures), doing (experiments, experiences) and reading. The general belief is that ‘doing’ is the best way to learn about anything. Many within the science education community also view practical work carried out by students as the most essential feature […]
The challenges of teaching and learning English in India explains it all – the good, the bad and the ugly side of the Indian education system! India is among the few major countries in the world where a second-language (English) is not just a major communication language but also the academic language – the medium […]
In broad terms it is the ‘technical’ term for teaching Good teaching is quite an art, but good teachers know the science of teaching too, i.e. the universally effective practices in teaching. The science of teaching includes certain fundamental steps to be followed by teachers while teaching in classrooms (‘in-class processes’) and certain follow up […]
The future of food: experts predict how our plates will change Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University Unless there are big changes within the next 20 years, I foresee a two-class food system. One class will eat industrialised food produced as cheaply as possible at the expense […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. We sincerely appreciate this parental predicament – all the hard work and commitment in living up to the schools’ demands and routine are not yielding the desired achievement levels in maths […]
Is there a future for the middleman The changes brought by the WWW In the 90s, the Internet enabled immediate and direct contact between millions of people, eliminated geographic distances, and created a new ‘global village’. It also marked the beginning of the era of disintermediation. The initial industry shakers The sectors impacted first were […]
Schools have not changed much since their global expansion beginning in the 19th century and continue to be organised to deliver prescribed ‘book content’ throughthe teachers in a highly structured ‘classroom settings’.Some of the areas where the schools have unfailingly retained focus are:1. Delivering a ‘defined universal curriculum’ as the be-all and end-all of knowledge […]
The following tabular representation offers a comparison of the school education in 1810s and 2010s. Indeed, schools have not changed at all over the past 200 years on most of the key dimensions and are much unprepared to address the changes in the society!To top it, two of the changes being brought about by the […]
