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StoryWeaver – Making Reading and Literacy Collaborative and Accessible
StoryWeaver is a multilingual digital platform that hosts thousands of children’s storybooks in various languages free of cost under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. The website was started in 2015 by non-profit foundation Pratham Books. Today, it hosts about 8,700 books in about 114 languages, including 71 international and 25 endangered languages (Moorthy, 2018). All…
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Can a Picture Change an Idea?
On ____, the world woke up to the shocking image of _______. Textbooks are filled with pictures today. To many of these children, any of these pictures could be the first tryst with that concept. This is especially true for children who are on the less accessible side of the digital divide. But if pictures…
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Getting to the Basics — Dyslexia
For the last few weeks, I have been busy with a course. It is called Remedial Measures for Children with Specific Learning Disability. Put together by the Madras Dyslexic Association, it is a great introduction to the techniques that teachers who do not have detailed knowledge of dyslexia to be able to apply specific techniques.…
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“But Why?” — The Puzzling Curves and Arcs of Kids’ Geometry Lessons
I couldn’t find a single video that explained why drawing those arcs bisected the line.
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Are Schools Still Relevant?
In her article on Ed Set Go, talks about the importance of unstructured learning. In many ways, unstructured learning is real learning. Learning that happens organically. Only, there are two problems–can we relied on to go for unstructured learning on a long-term basis or will we just jump to whatever catches our fancy? What exactly…
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Metacognition and the Future of Learning
“If a prisoner is happy and content, is that man free?” It’s a question you might probably expect to hear in undergrad philosophy classes. But the question was actually posed to a group of six-year-olds. Metacognition, briefly put, is thinking about thinking. “Before, I never used to think. I used to be ooh shallow guy.…
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Einstein Inaugurates the Website
A human being is part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest–a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to…
Sinduja Ragunathan 