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Biography of Albert Einstein

Our education system mainly focuses on the cognitive domain and only if they get time they add the psychomotor domain in the name of practical's. The domain which we never give importance to is affective domain. On the affective domain we have the pictures of great scientists that's it. Knowing about their past and how they became such a great personality will inculcate the values in them. In this blog I will discuss the life of Albert Einstein and things to be be learnt from him.         ·        Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879.   ·        His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch. In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where Einstein’s father and his uncle Jakob founded a company that manufactured electrical equipment based on direct current.   ·        Alber...

An insight into Finland's education system

In this blog I will be writing about Finland's education system and what it makes to be the most successful education system in the world. After reading the characteristics of education system of Finland, we can clearly identify the reasons of there success. we can also compare the differences between them and our own education system here in India. Education is free of cost and equal to all students; this is the basic principle of education system of Finland. Children go to school at the age of 7 years for their basic education. 99% students’ study in government school. There is no space for private schools and coaching also.  Mid-day meal is provided to all the students. Education system and the equality of education of schools are same whether those are situated in a village or in city. A class teacher remains the same from first class to sixth class. The reason behind it is that a class teacher tries to maintain a relationship with all students. English language is ta...

Learning through play

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There will always be a huge gap between the things that teachers want to impart to their student and the things that students want to know from them. The connection that will let the two meet is the relevance of the lesson with the students lives.  Engaging activities that stimulate active learning is proven to be the best method teachers use to provide a long term understanding. Here are some benefits of using these resources in teaching:- 1. C oncept application :-  Applying the idea that the students learned in school to a real situation is the best outcome their learning could achieve. Student can acquire an open mind this skill outside of school that will provide them with a better outlook on life. For example:- If we are teaching torque to a student we should engage him with what is his/her previous knowledge. So we should pick some teaching resources that will help learner to apply that concept in the real life.         ...

New resources for a new India

  For someone who is a product of traditional   Indian education system, it is difficult to believe that there is   paradigm shift in teaching landscape. From the pen and paper to teaching online, we have come   a long way . Not just the medium of teaching, but even learning resources saw that incredible shift. For Most of us millennials, school prescribed textbooks and board prescribed digests were only source of course material. The problem with this traditional approach was that updating of syllabus, the world changes at incredible speed but the schools syllabus is not able to keep up. This makes our course material obsolete very quickly. But the new generation of internet and high speed connectivity has made it possible to expand our knowledge beyond textbooks and digests, it has made it   literally boundless. No need to update the syllabus now, just update the website with information. With video lectures and animation technology, we don...

Changing concept of teaching learning resources

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Hi, everyone! welcome to my first blog post. My name is Rahul Yadav and I am the current B.Ed. student in School of Education, Lovely professional university. In this blog I will be sharing my ideas on changing concept of teaching learning resources. A must change for learning:- Traditionally teachers hold the responsibility of instructions of learning but now even learner should shares the responsibility of instructions of learning, by that i wanted to say only teachers will not decide what to teach and how to teach it is also depending on students how they will learn.  If a teacher wanted to start a new lesson or chapter he should ask his students about the prior knowledge related to that topic and then accordingly he/she should decide the instruction plan or we can say the way of teaching. For example if a student does not know the the basic knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division how he can proceed with equations. So teacher has to decide that if student...