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Five principles integral to better schooling systems
3 months ago

Five principles integral to better schooling systems

Hindustan Times  

A study recently published by the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics says that China’s manufacturing and productivity leap is rooted in more than 40% of its youth pursuing vocational education in the 1980s, as compared to India’s 10%. The most damning statistic on the neglect of primary education in India in the first four decades of …

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Open-book exams: A game changer for education system
11 months, 1 week ago

Open-book exams: A game changer for education system

Hindustan Times  

Until two to three decades ago, students needed to remember everything they learnt as no facility existed for storing contents and books were scarce. NEP-2020 lays emphasis on developing creativity and critical thinking capabilities for empowering youth with the 21st century life skills and mindsets necessary for making them innovative and entrepreneurs and thus economically, intellectually and socially productive. NEP-2020 …

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Skills over scores: It is time to re-imagine assessment models in Indian schools
2 years, 2 months ago

Skills over scores: It is time to re-imagine assessment models in Indian schools

India Today  

We are in the midst of one of the most crucial epochs of transformation that our education system has witnessed in decades, not least during the pandemic. Modern education today must lie at the intersection of all three - knowledge - of traditional subject matters like mathematics, and sciences, etc, skills - like critical thinking and creativity that help you …

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In COVID Times, Why It is Dangerous to Mistake Information for Education
3 years, 1 month ago

In COVID Times, Why It is Dangerous to Mistake Information for Education

News 18  

The Budget announcement every year by the Finance Minister is a big event typically followed by praise, criticism, expression of opinions by experts and conversation among people in general. Besides the usual provisions, a Digital University has been proposed to give access to world-class quality education to all students with personalised learning experience at their doorstep. The Budget also focuses …

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How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning
4 years, 4 months ago

How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning

India Today  

E-learning is revolutionising our education system as it remains the only option during the ongoing crisis. Many schools are leveraging the crisis as an opportunity to deploy digital technology and make education delivery meaningful, to be more productive and efficient while developing new skills through online learning and assessment. Concrete learning When students and teachers are unable to access physical …

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Prepare to succeed at JEE, 10th, 12th, BITSAT, AIIMS entrance exams and more with BasicFirst
4 years, 5 months ago

Prepare to succeed at JEE, 10th, 12th, BITSAT, AIIMS entrance exams and more with BasicFirst

Firstpost  

With a ‘one student to one coach’ system and a team of seasoned academicians from some of the most esteemed institutes across the country as coaches, your kid finally has a real shot at success. BasicFirst trains and prepares you for boards like JEE, BITSAT, NEET, AIIMS, NTSE, KVPY, CBSE Board Class 12th, State Board Class 10th, Class 6, Class …

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9 reasons why smart classes are good for your child
4 years, 9 months ago

9 reasons why smart classes are good for your child

India Today  

In this age of new technologies, smart learning education system is a boon for those who wish to make the best of resources. Novel learning techniques The key difference between traditional teaching techniques and new-age smart learning education is the use of tools and equal participation of teachers and students. Smart learning education system attempts at developing quick learning skills …

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Ensuring access and equity in education, writes Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
4 years, 10 months ago

Ensuring access and equity in education, writes Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’

Hindustan Times  

In his recent article, Life in the era of Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the poor are often beneficiaries of the transformational impact of technology. The pandemic has presented new challenges and also opportunities for our education system Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures for the education sector as a part of the Rs 20 …

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Online v/s offline learning: Which option is better for personalised learning
6 years, 3 months ago

Online v/s offline learning: Which option is better for personalised learning

Hindustan Times  

What’s plaguing the current education system? First and foremost is the emphasis on theory based rote learning where the focus is centered around securing good grades in examinations, rather than understanding, remembering and applying concepts in the real world. In two of the most watched TED Talks, Sal Khan, founder of non-profit Khan Academy, outlined a mastery-based learning vision, in …

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Cannabis 'could reverse ageing process' after THC found to improve memory and learning in older mice
6 years, 4 months ago

Cannabis 'could reverse ageing process' after THC found to improve memory and learning in older mice

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The chemical in cannabis that makes people feel ‘high’ appears to …

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Education is not confined to classrooms: Endless opportunities available for students in this age
6 years, 4 months ago

Education is not confined to classrooms: Endless opportunities available for students in this age

India Today  

Today, education has broadened its horizons and extended its reach and coverage since the ancient times. Another concept which is revolutionising the field of education is 'Distance Learning' which has contributed tremendously in reaching out to the enthusiastic learners in the backward and remote parts of the country which till date remain deprived of basic amenities. Individual talents can, therefore, …

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Twitter brings smart auto-cropping for your photo posts with the help of machine learning
7 years, 1 month ago

Twitter brings smart auto-cropping for your photo posts with the help of machine learning

Firstpost  

Dubbed smart auto-cropping, this feature of Twitter can be helpful for those images where there may not be facial images. Keeping this in mind, Twitter has come up with a smart auto-cropping features that uses the power of machine learning to frame the right bits of shared photographs. Dubbed ‘smart auto-cropping’, this can be helpful for those images where there …

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Popularity of school workbooks stems from focus on exams
7 years, 10 months ago

Popularity of school workbooks stems from focus on exams

China Daily  

THE MINISTRY of Education has banned primary and middle schools from providing students with any drill-and-review workbooks. An article published in Shenzhen-based Jingbao Daily comments: It is not the first time the Education Ministry has banned curriculum workbooks featuring fill-in-the-blanks and define-the-term exercises in public schools in recent years. The root cause is the exam-oriented education system has remained largely …

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Cyclones in Queensland: Learning from five of the worst ever recorded
7 years, 11 months ago

Cyclones in Queensland: Learning from five of the worst ever recorded

ABC  

Tropical cyclones have long posed a serious threat to Queensland coastal communities, but after almost every disaster there have been lessons learnt to help people better prepare. About 10,000 residents lived in Mackay when category four Tropical Cyclone Mackay struck the north Queensland sugar town in 1918. Larry — March 20, 2006 Ray Ladlow walks to his destroyed home in …

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A lesson in hidden agendas
8 years, 11 months ago

A lesson in hidden agendas

The Hindu  

The public education system has for long been under fire. Amita Chudgar and Elizabeth Quin claim that they “find insufficient evidence to claim that children in private schools outperform those in public schools in India… better data are needed”. When it became difficult to empirically prove that children learn better in private schools, the attack invented a new weapon: per …

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For creativity over conformity in classrooms
9 years, 1 month ago

For creativity over conformity in classrooms

The Hindu  

Do schools kill creativity, asks Ken Robinson in the much-watched TED talk. India’s educational system is modelled on the mass education system that developed in the 19th century in Europe and later spread around the world. So, how would an educational system built around creativity look like? Learning about the environment challenges students to use complex thinking, provide time to …

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