Anjali Noronha January is the month we celebrate Republic Day. January is also the month of the birthdays of two iconic women teachers – Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheik, who dedicated their lives to educate women, girls, and boys of Read More …
Month: January 2024
Factors and multiples
Suma Vivekanandan
How can you help children construct their own knowledge of factors and multiples? Try these simple activities.
Understanding metrics
Narendran V
Metrics are a part of our everyday life. Whether it is to buy one kilogram of potatoes, or walk two kilometres to our destination, or fill a one litre of water, we have to use units of measurement. But do we ever tell our students how or why these standard units of measurement came about?
The underdog’s tale
Chintan Girish Modi
A little boy trying to make his place in an unfamiliar setting, fighting bullies, and trying to catch up — this is 9 year-old Gopi’s. This tale of an outsider has a lesson or two for readers.
ChatGPT in schools
Neerja Singh
It has been a while since technology has made inroads into education now. But never has it made the kind of noise that the use of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is making. Should schools open their doors to AI?
Climate change, storytelling, and the subversive power of imagination
Deborah Dutta
Climate crisis is almost upon us and yet all that we are still doing is talking and not really taking any action. Why? Because the human brain is built to experience the present and react to the immediate. We still don’t see climate crisis as imminent and therefore are unable to take collective action. We need to train our brains to imagine our crises-ridden future so that it can goad us into action today.
Creating a multi-intelligent curriculum
Sanjhee Gianchandani
A majority of our classrooms are designed for the linguistic-verbal and logical-mathematical intelligences. As teachers, it is our responsibility to nurture and help the other intelligences flourish too. There is no need to design multiple lesson plans to cater to the multiple intelligences. With a little bit of imagination, a teacher can include simple activities to her already existing lesson plan or just take the time to identify and highlight regular classroom activities that promote the different intelligences.
Angela Ruiz Robles: e-book pioneer
Mamata Pandya
Print is making way for electronic devices and we are now reading e-books instead of books. Michael Hart is credited with the invention of the e-book, but did you know that the original pioneer of the idea was a woman? Angela Ruiz Robles, a Spanish teacher and inventor, designed the Mechanical Encyclopedia, a precursor to the e-book.
Cave dwellers
Geetha Iyer
When we think of natural habitats, it is the forest, the land, or the water body that comes to mind, but there are animals that have made caves their home too.
Life lessons from a game of sport
Anuradha C
Extra-curricular activities are done if there is time for them outside the regular curricular activities. In many schools, sport is still an extra-curricular activity. While math and science can teach us to add, multiply, and question, sport can teach us life lessons.