Year: 2021

Digital tools to create music

Ullas Ponnadi
Can technology enable the creation of perfect music? What are the tools that musicians and composers can use? This article looks at how the process of music creation has evolved, so much so that there is now software that can create music all on its own.

Make way for integrated learning

Anuradha C
Engaging in a single academic discipline is now passe. With the NEP 2020 recognising the fact that an integrated or multidisciplinary learning approach will help hone students’ skills, it is time for parents and teachers to ensure that their wards do not stick to just one subject and instead try and widen their options so that they develop a holistic education.

Keeping children engaged

Geeta Gujral
Here’s how teachers can make a difference by planning a class from the learner’s point of view.

Imagining the possibilities…

Timira
This article looks at how an arts-based approach can help special needs children overcome their limitations and experience joy in whatever they do. The possibilities are endless.

The Hacker University

Neerja Singh
Cyber security and seamless protection have become critical in an era of work from home where everyone is distanced. The pressure points are too many. This article talks about the Hacker University which sells cybercrime courses designed to hack for profit and commit fraud. So how can one stay vigilant?

Jewel in the Crown

Devika Nadig
In this month’s column, the author shares her tryst with the ancient city of Varanasi, and the visual treat of a resplendent Ganga Aarti. She also talks about the how Shikshangan’s Change Management module caught the attention of all the school heads from around Varanasi.

An endangered species?

Shubangi Rajput
Teaching is fast losing even the little respect that it had. Why is this so? A teacher presents her views.

What do marks tell about students?

Radhika Chaturvedi
No matter the way we teach, ultimately everything in all educational spaces culminates in exams. Are we going about teaching children to learn the right way?

Bringing science home

N Sai Prashanthi
Science is a practical subject. How then do we adapt it to the online mode? Here’s how a teacher thought up experiments that children could do at home with easily available ingredients to learn scientific concepts.