Month: February 2019

Fake news and the pandemic of distrust

Prakash Iyer

Fake news is spreading like an epidemic and the corollary of this is the lack of trust that people now have in each other. While battling fake news is certainly important, it is perhaps more important to arrest this growing distrust among people. And as teachers we have to help our children learn to trust another person as much as they trust themselves.

Uncommon ways to teach common prepositions

Urvashi Nangia

Grammar is important to the study of language. But the unimaginative ways in which we present grammar to children puts them off it, leaving their language learning incomplete. Why should learning grammar be boring? Here is a beautiful account of how this teacher taught her students a grammar concept playing in a park.