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Blog write up by Mrs Suman Purohit Das mlearning: An Innovative Pedagogical Tool With the advancement of educational technology, our teaching-learning process has faced the utmost changing trends. The classroom technology trends are changing so swiftly and speedily that the teachers and educators have to keep themselves equipped to meet the expectations of a diverse classroom for optimum learning. 21st century Gen Z is born with technology in hand, that’s why these children are known as “Digital Natives”. If we do not bring innovative technology to the classrooms then our classrooms will be dull, boring and it will be difficult to engage and excite children for learning in future. Teachers have to embed technology into their innovative instructional planning. Around 5 years back on the name of educational technology, most of the schools had started changing their chalk & black boards into digital/interactive boards so called “Smart Boards”. But that also got out dat...

Preparedness: Development of Disaster Management Skills in students  Education is not only assimilation of information and imparting bookish knowledge to students but that information and knowledge must be applied either for earning livelihood or saving life from any unforeseen disaster. Our curriculum covers all areas of learning through skilful education. With this purpose a textbook on disaster management, “Together towards safer India Part-III” is applied in class X course. We teach all kinds of drills such as fire evacuation, earthquake evacuation, flood evacuation etc. We explain and demonstrate all survival skills, safe construction practices, communication during disasters and sharing responsibilities. Schools are giving emphasis on practical drills while teaching such content. In past we have witnessed many unforeseen fire tragedies where the children were being involved, like the fire tragedy of Kumbakonam in which 93 children charred to death, Dabwali fire acc...

BRINGING CRITICAL THINKING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE INTO THE LITERATURE CLASSROOM What is literature? Why do we teach literature?Literature was accorded the status of being a window to world s different from one own. Unfortnately reading for pleasure wasn’t mentioned by any of them. It was important for me to Point  that literature isn’t necessarily written it includes a variety of oral forms. During the activity wherein participants were required to think about how they would work with Vietnamese poet ‘THICH NHAT HANH poem call me by my true names”in their classroom ,I decided to show this video clip featuring folk singer “Prahlad tipanya singing the bhajan “tu ka tu” attributed to the 15th century Indian poet kabir. It is excerpt from Shabnam virmani Air in America.What followed was a delicious conversation around itself ,identity ,compassion.my objective in this art of the workshop was to get the teachers to shift their focus from explaining a poem to opening up a poem...

Car-a status symbol or the necessity The hatchback,the SUV or the luxury model of cars a rave in the society today.Every single person is seen discussing about the  features of every new entrantcar in the market.The new launches,the upholstery,the dashboard,the boot space,the legroom-no of nouns to specify the features,the company -indian or Japanese or German ,this all is endless but how many of us had or have the discussion on types of 'sanskars', the ways to carry forward,the laxities and the efforts every selfish man is doing? No the man is contaminating urea in milk,the pesticides in crops-the adulteration is the 'in'word and desi pure is the ' out'  word rather HS and LS because we are olive oil generation and the generation of green tea/coffee and Innova or fortuner to mercedes and jaguar. Yes the haunting questions about the jungle scenerio with no greens all around except a small colony park with those foreign style zym equipments but the r...

CONFLICT RESOLUTION: INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING  An interpersonal conflict is a state of disharmony between two or more people (Girard & Koch, 1996). It exists when incompatible activities occur (Deutsch, 1973), or when one person or group attempts to maximize advantages at the expense of others (Johnson & Johnson, 1991). People who live together in societies who have variety of values, beliefs, wants, and needs are naturally going to come in conflict on occasion. It makes sense, then, that you include conflict resolution in your social studies curriculum in order to help students understand the nature of conflict and the forces that affect all human endeavors. Also, and perhaps most important, inclusion of this will provide students with the skills necessary to constructively deal with the conflict they will encounter in their own lives. It is a mistake to think that all conflict should be avoided. Indeed, there are many benefits to conflict. Conflict prev...

Self-Awareness: The Key to Professional Success is Understanding your Personality As individuals, our personality is unique; however, there are basic shared characteristics among us and it is important to understand our personality as it impacts the relationships with those around us. A simple definition of personality is our natural or preferred way of being. Naturally we feel competent, productive, and energetic, and sometimes are not aware of our innate way of being. Knowing our strengths can be a good asset, but it can also be a liability if they are used inappropriately. Paying attention to our personality characteristics and knowing how to manage them can enhance our relationships and allow us to be successful. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality assessment that categorizes your personality preferences in four dimensions: The first dimension includes where you focus your attention- Extraversion ( E)  or Introversion  (I ). The second: way you tak...

Life is full of Mysteries Life is full of mysteries, Sometimes it shows you green trees, Invites you with its delicious fruits, And sometimes it gets off with its bitter fluids. Life gives you full of surprises, Sometimes it gives you beautiful prizes. It shows you lovely images, And sometimes it shows you fake mirages. In life, both happiness and sorrow Come one after another in a row. Life is for a moment, Full of lament. When it says goodbye, When everything remains lie, When it stops its flow, You don't know. What will go to happen with you? Now, today and tomorrow, You don't know anything. But every moment you're heading towards its destiny, It's the reality. Life is always uncertain, It's an ordinary curtain. How many houses you've built; How many lives you've heal; It only counts. Who'll go to remember you? Who'll go to forget you? It doesn't matter. How long you've spent your life in this world ,doesn...