Let’s take a deep breath, close eyes and think about a day where we didn’t use our phone, desktop, laptop and all the digital gadgets that make our lives easy, help us communicate better, help us present ourselves better, entertain us, save our lives and so on. Seems hard right? An article in the Irish Independent by Ciaran Cannon states that by 2020 there will be 25 billion devices connected to the internet, three...
Several schools treat their students as a statistic - a ‘pass percentage’ as opposed to a human being with infinite potential. It didn’t matter whether a student got 33% or 93%, as long as they passed. An attitude that served the purpose of the school without actually serving its purpose of equipping students to take on the complexities of the real world. This didn’t sit right with Parinita Jain and Divakar Sankhla, who...
If you are a student, think about an average day in school. If you’re an adult, think back to when you were a school-going child. Can you recall a time when you sat in a hot, stuffy classroom, in a lesson that was supposed to last 45 minutes but felt like 4 hours? Your teacher goes over concept after concept, turning their back occasionally to scribble something on the board that dutifully copy...
This post was contributed to the KER Blog by Nishigandha Gogate, Lead Teacher at iTeach Schools. Visit her blog here to read more of her work. Thanks, Nishi, for your contribution! The FOUNDATION COURSE was first of its kind for the academically weakest students of Pune city pioneered in 2017. In 5 rigorous weeks last year history was created by all the 103 brave warriors to fight the educational inequity. In 5 rigorous weeks...
This summer, Team KER had the pleasure of visiting the GenWise Summer Camp in Bangalore. This camp was the first of what we hope will be many more such camps hosted by GenWise, an organisation that is geared towards supporting children in achieving their potential. During the summer camp, students spent two weeks enhancing their learning within 5 carefully curated tracks: Science and Scientific Discovery, Mathematical and Computational Thinking, Technology and Design, Tools...
What does is take to get kids to express their voices? Many factors come to mind - supportive teachers, encouraging peers, natural charisma, psychological safety, or maybe just having something important say. Aarthi Seshadri from Teach for India, Pune, asked herself whether simply offering a platform for voices to be expressed is enough to actually encourage kids to open up. Thus, the KER Chronicles were born! These “chronicles” serve as completely voluntary spaces...
