Nivedita Vijay Bedadur
Newspapers are a rich resource in that one can find pictures, articles, advertisements which help us learn in different ways. Read how this resource can be used as textual material.
Year: 2013
Micro gravity: On a flight of fancy
Subha Das Mollick and Partha Bandyopadhyay
When fingers become cars
Geetha Durairajan
Children often indulge in make-believe games. With an imagination that can transform anything into anything, children can keep themselves occupied for hours together. As they enter the adult world, this imagination or creativity takes a back seat and is not valued. Is organised schooling reponsible for killing this childish trait?
Ringing in the new year
S Upendran
Here are a few interesting ways in which one can usher in the New Year.
The last frontiers of Why and What
Nandini Nayar
How must parents deal with the incessant questions that a child asks? Should the child be encouraged to ask more questions or should the parent take the easy way out and stop the child from questioning?
The playful process of practice
Gopal Midha
What is practice? What is the magic change that it can bring about? How can it be rescued from turning into a dull and meaningless chore? What do students think about it? Our cover story tries to answer some of these questions and suggests ways in which practice tasks can be restructured.