An Unprecedented Time In Education Demands Unprecedented Change
Inspiring Indians Using Social Media to Drive Positive Change
Social Emotional Learning In Times Of Pandemics & Disruption
Due to the pandemic situation students are facing learning loss that is very critical. The situation could be described as almost two years of learning loss as in many countries students have not attended school for a year and are being automatically promoted to the next grade. (Anir Chowdhury, Policy Advisor, Access To Information Program, […]
Educate for Tomorrow
What Are We Trying To Solve “Social and Emotional Learning is about the education of the human heart. The future of human civilization and the protection of the planet depends on the evolution of the human heart and these methodologies are utterly essential.” (David Sawyer, Converge, Education Reformer) Project Rangeet’s (in Hindi “Rang” = Colour” and […]
A new path to education reform: Playful learning promotes 21st-century skills in schools and beyond
Time Travel, Worm Holes and Future Schools Today
I’ve been playing with this idea that the way we can change schools is to first accept that they are trying to solve historical problems, problems that policy makers identified often decades previously, and the education system by nature of its size and structure is slow to evolve or change. Schools are rarely agile enough […]
Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Why Educators Should Be Using the Lockdown to Children’s Advantage
It’s no secret that children and indeed all humans have multiple intelligences, some of which are far better developed than others. The Guru of this theory Dr. Howard Gardner, proposed this way back in 1983. Yet most schools today still test a student’s success by how well they do linguistically, logically and perhaps mathematically. But […]