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Flights of Fancy: December 2014
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Monday, December 29, 2014. Raghav was having some physical discomfort, to which his reaction is usually kind of extreme and often very loud (for us). It was this time too. Only this time, a few minutes later, he comes up to me and says this:. The key is to be calm when this is happening.and not get anxious. See, now I am better, and so I am calm.". I smiled and asked: "What? Because he was being calm after and not during what he was going through). A few minutes later, he added:. Posted by Priya Desikan.
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Flights of Fancy: August 2014
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Saturday, August 2, 2014. Minecraft - Enemies and Friends! I love the long conversations we have every morning, as soon as Raghav wakes up, even if they mostly focus on Minecraft these days, about which I know very little! Here is what he said:. What a wonderful life lesson learned through play! Yes, ultimately love is the only emotion that has the power to break a heart open to love isn't it? Posted by Priya Desikan. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Learning Happens. S* t Happens. This is how we Open.
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world through my yeux...: We Homeschool, Yes. We Homeschool Not.
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World through my yeux. My Experiences and; Musings. How I Learnt Learning! Poems, Rhymes, and Limericks. Sunday, December 7, 2014. We Homeschool, Yes. We Homeschool Not. And Announcing.The Next Performance. Petal plucking and decision making.". 8220;It’s not that I did not learn anything from schools…I learnt a lot…that is the very reason I home-schooled.”. No more co-ordinators, no more annual days, no more anything else! My opinion was fixed…always…ever since the idea came into conception&#...Even some...
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Schooling Thoughts: How to deal with bullying & ragging ?
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Push pedagogy, learnable moments, home schooling, un-schooling. Friday, December 28, 2012. How to deal with bullying and ragging? Bullying or Ragging could lead to deep mental depression! Here are some snippets from a few online references (verbatim) to understand the lesser spoken evil :. Playing practical jokes on somebody, teasing someone" is how the dictionary defines it. But in the Indian context, it meaning is somewhat different, somewhat more inhuman. Bullying in Resindential Schools. There are ma...
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Schooling Thoughts: March 2013
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Push pedagogy, learnable moments, home schooling, un-schooling. Saturday, March 2, 2013. Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud. Sugata Mitra discusses his concept of a school in the cloud. He has been awarded the 2013 TED Prize Winner of 1 million USD. Here are Sugata's 5 favorite talks at TED. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Schooling Thoughts: December 2014
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Push pedagogy, learnable moments, home schooling, un-schooling. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Possibility of a free education abroad. German, Finland, France, Sweden, Brazil . take your pick. Traveling to another country is an amazing learning experience. Now when you reduce the burden of student loans while getting a good education makes it a very interesting option for higher education. Its obvious that some of these options would require you to step out of your comfort zone . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Schooling Thoughts: January 2013
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Push pedagogy, learnable moments, home schooling, un-schooling. Monday, January 14, 2013. Looking at this blog titled - "School Re-formed" and particularly at the article that describes a unique learning program - " Shikhantar and Swaraj. It seems to ring a bell on alternative education very loudly for learners today. If you want pure learning without worrying about - exams, peer pressure, learning disabilities, high expectations, this seems to be a real-life example of how its done. Do check out the blog.
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The Bharadwaj Shine: September 2012
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Being with my family in New Jersey, USA. Sunday, September 16, 2012. My friend Dola did a blog-post. About the questions her children ask. Its ditto at our place, just different topics. So the kids were lying in bed and laughing at some character's antics on youtube on the IPad. We started talking about music and the next hour was a mix of all the following:. Music i heard as a kid. Bangles and their hit song Manic Monday. Nazia Hassan and her brother. Boom Boom, another Nazia hit. Black and while videos.
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The Bharadwaj Shine: On Capone, Elvis and Learning
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Being with my family in New Jersey, USA. Friday, October 19, 2012. On Capone, Elvis and Learning. A few minutes ago Raghu was watching a video with me online, where we saw images of the soup lines during the Great Depression. He immediately connected it to what he read about Al Capone in the Horrible Histories Book. I learnt from him that during the Great Depression Al Capone tried to buy his way into the heart of the public, during his court trial, by setting up Soup Lines for the unemployed.
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July 2013 – Directions our lives take
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Directions our lives take. Just another WordPress.com site. July 24, 2013. How children learn to eat. Aravinda Amma has written in some detail about children developing healthy food habits. How often do we hear that children won’t eat? Declares an advertisement for a popular packaged meal. On the screen we see a child pushing away a plate of vegetables, dal and roti and brightening up considerably when the packaged bliss comes forth in steaming digitally enhanced ringlets. July 16, 2013. July 14, 2013.
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