‘Lack of conceptual clarity’ may be the most oft-repeated label/feedback on children. And helping build conceptual clarity is the biggest business in education – inside and outside of schools; ‘Smart classrooms’, ‘Gamification of learning’, career prep industry, adaptive assessments, and ‘4D visuals’ are just some of the tools professed to ‘teach concepts’. However, the efficacy […]
Read more >NO, it is self-evident if we look back into our past. Schools were invented only in the early eighteenth century, less than 300 years back; for over 99.9% of human existence, education of children was imparted without schools. Every home, kinship and village community was responsible for educating its children. Education was much more a […]
Read more >Early childhood is a crucial period of development for every child across societies. This is the period when the brain grows remarkably and the foundation of child’s development and learning is laid.A growing body of scientific evidence tells us that emotional development begins early in life, and it is a critical aspect of the development […]
Read more >The future of medicine is in your phone Smartphone apps have radically changed many aspects of our everyday lives, from banking to shopping to entertainment. Medicine is next. The number of apps available in Google Play store surpassed the 1.5 million mark in May 2015. Apple store is close behind with 1.4 million apps. Interestingly, […]
Read more >Math as a domain/subject has quite a few totally unique distinctions. The five more pertinent ones are: Math is THE language of (all) Gods‘God’s creation’ – nature – is totally mathematically managed/minded; the natural world is an amazing ‘multi-level system’ in cause and effect, all over its expanse. Math is also the only universal languageThere […]
Read more >Will Google disrupt the automobile industry? What does Blackberry, DEC, IBM, Kodak, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia have in common? They were all market leaders that fell prey to disruptive technology. These companies are also examples of companies following ‘sustained innovation’ in which each new model or version upended only small incremental improvements. Albeit profitable, this linear […]
Read more >The neighbourhood of the future Andres Duany, renowned architect and city planner, in an interview with USA Today, says that in only a few decades, based on current market trends, demographic changes and economic realities, the town of the future will be a place where people “will walk and ride more and drive less. And […]
Read more >Cyber-bullying is the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. It is the use of services such as web pages and discussion groups as well as instant messaging or SMS text messaging to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour, by an individual or group, […]
Read more >Here’s a puzzle: if U.S. students do so badly on international tests, especially in math, how can it be that the U.S. economy is so strong? An educated workforce is supposedly a big predictor of a country’s income and annual growth. Yet the performance of American 15-year-olds on the Program for International Student Assessment, or […]
Read more >Richest 1% will own more than half the world. OECD reports that the gap between the haves and the have-nots globally is now at the same level as in the 1820s, citing it as one of the most ‘worrying’ developments over the past 200 years. It pointed that inequality shot up after globalisation took root […]
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