Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

Valour Circles in Schools Date: 14th November 2019/11:35 AM It has been long since I had time to write a blog about something very interesting, useful  and important in our lives, our emotions and how they effect us at times and how we take them for granted both in kids and adults. Emotions give us very important data not about ourselves but even people around us, what they are going through. I think it's very important for educators no matter what age group of kids they are teaching to be aware of not only oneself but others too. It's a common observation that students are told be rigid, strong and firm, and leave their emotions behind while making decisions. I wonder parents or even educators ever think, in doing so they are ripping apart their kid of a very unique ability, strength, which is god gifted. Acknowledging emotions is the first step to handling them. Dr Susan David, a Harvard Psychologist in her Ted Talk talks about emotions as data and not directives. She fu...

Exploring - Buncee Date: 10th Oct 2018/Wednesday This blogpost is inspired from my recent dive into Buncee - a super cool tool for content creation - from creating interactive and animated presentations to digital stories flyers, comic strips, animated cards, tutorials, newsletters and much much more. The blog post will give you a virtual walk through of the important features of this tool called Buncee,  with an insight of how and where could this tool be used effectively and meaningfully to engage learners/educators.  Lets begin by exploring why do we need to create presentations? Obviously to share information, share ideas, promote a product or launch a new initiative, create awareness, check understanding, to inspire and motivate people, to instruct or teach a topic, deliver a lecture, to engage the audience and so on. Have you ever thought of using presentations to cater to the differentiated needs of the learners in the classroom? Have you ever thought of crea...

Why Kids need to learn Scratch - Part 2 Date: 02/10/2018/Tuesday This blogpost is simply inspired from the work kids are doing in Scratch at Ranaa Child Welfare Foundation. The blogpost will share some of the amazing programs kids have been able to make in Scratch through coding with an insight into why kids need to learn #Scratch. Why kids like Scratch? A number of reasons.  Firstly, It has a very user friendly and ease to use interface. Kids can drag in sprites easily from library, change background, add sound from library , even draw own sprites. They can increase and decrease the size of  sprites using the grow and shrink button. Secondly   it's color coded, kids know blue colored code is for motion, purple code represents sound, brown code represents events, green represents various operators and so on. They just have to drag and drop the code in the script area. Third they have learnt how to look for step wise tutorials, learn independently about ho...