Classical music will help your child to be smarter’, ‘Listening to Mozart soothes a fussy baby’, ‘Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning.’ These are just some of the reason, why parents are anxious to introduce their youngsters to classical music at a very early age – or even before […]
How learning art and design helps children Art is a visual means of communication. It is a diverse range of human activities which produces works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art. Learning art gives children a window to the rich and interesting […]
It’s hard to live a day in the developed world without using a Unilever product. The multinational manufactures and distributes over 400 consumer goods brands covering food and beverages, domestic cleaning products and personal hygiene. With so many processes to coordinate and manage, artificial intelligence is quickly becoming essential for organizations of its scale. This […]
Physical education and sports in education Sports involve physical exertion and skills that are used by individuals or teams to compete against another individual or other teams for entertainment. It includes playing, recreational activities, organised, casual or competitive sport, and indigenous sports or games. Sports contribute to physical fitness, mental and emotional well-being and social […]
Music may actually be the most nourishing food for the ears; the hearing capacity is best enhanced by training the ears for good music. Learning music not only involves training the vocals and playing an instrument by fingers, but also active listening, imitating, improvising, composing, comparing and contrasting, refining, interpreting, recording and notating, practising, rehearsing, […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question directly with parents. The discussion that follows could be directly shared with parents, without any need to edit. It is a very important question for two interesting reasons: Even school principals do not really have a universal, consistent and transparent framework (and instruments) to evaluate teachers. Teachers […]
The entire text below is excerpted from ‘FUTURE SYSTEMS – Thriving in a world of constant change’ report by Accenture Applications are evolving into systems, merging with data and infrastructure, moving outside the boundaries of the enterprise, and embedding themselves deeply into our daily lives. Companies must be ready to respond. Imagine a world in […]
Assessing the quality of a school was always very simple – the top (and average) of the grades/marks obtained in the terminal examination, the board exams. This measure worked well for close to 200 years until around the year 2000. What happened thereafter? The marks obtained in the terminal exams were getting way off the […]
The role of teachers can be broadly categorised into five ‘dimensions’ as listed in the tabular representation. Against each of the dimension, the role of teachers is mentioned as in 1810s and 2010s (1810s is picked to make the 200 years of difference from the current decade.) It is clearly evident from the comparison that […]
The Former President of the USA, Barack Obama, was not lying or playing out highly strategic deceit when he praises Bangalore and Beijing children for outsmarting American children. However, his reference population is the highly successful, India-born or educated (or some first-generation US-born Indian Americans) diaspora. In the process, he is talking about the Indian […]
