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A KClass edu-resource e-newsletter November 2018

Explore a wealth of resources on Social Sciences in the following Open source Websites: EyeWitness to History: Get a look at the ancient world through World War II through photos, voices, and other media on this history site.

Educational Maps of India: Survey of

India sites offers a number of high

resolution maps for educational use.

Check it out.

Biography maker : Use this tool to turn a

biography into a wonderful story about

a person's life.

Visible Earth:

https://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Show your

class unique perspectives of the earth

with satellite images.

Countries of the World: Find country studies

from the Library of Congress and other

authoritative sources through this site.

e-Auzaar

As a community of practioners who work for furthering the importance of education in India, we take immense pride in our participation of the day that celebrates the future of our country – Children’s Day. Children's Day is celebrated globally by most of the countries in the world (almost 50 countries) on 1 June. Universal Children's Day takes place annually on 20 November. With an aim to celebrate the spirit of children and their talent, the United Nations General Assembly in 1954 recommended that all countries around the world should set aside a day for this purpose. Different countries celebrate Children's Day on different dates. Before 1964, India celebrated its annual Children’s Day, commonly referred to as Bal Diwas, on November 20. In 1964, after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister of India, it was moved to his birthday on November 14.

Nehru is considered to have been a pivotal figure for child welfare in India, with his administration having established many schools and welfare programs throughout the nation. This Children’s day we bring to you the extraordinary story of courage and determination, of an undaunting heart and an unwavering spirit, the story of a young educationist who survived heavy odds and rose up to the cause of making education reach every child – this month’s story is the story of our hero: Malala - the youngest winner ever of the Nobel Peace Prize.

STORY OF THE MONTH

Vol. 1 No. 3

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What does it mean to have a school or a curriculum designed such that the children do not find it as removed from the culture they belong to? What translates as productive learning experiences in classrooms? How can a teacher enthuse her students with her teaching?

These and many more of such fundamental questions need to be factored in while designing school learning ecologies. If education and hence schooling ought to become a meaning-making experience for the children and help them in becoming critically literate, socially responsible and economically independent, then, we need to rethink ways in which we design our schools, our classrooms and our ways of teaching.

Read about Vidyodaya School,which follows the principals of ‘cooperation as against competition, non-violence as against aggression, integrity as against cheating, respect for others as against contempt, democratic functioning as against blind obedience to diktats…’ applicable to all levels - management, teachers, non-teaching staff and students.

Khabar-e-Nama

Ek school aisa bhi

Teaching as

Lifelong Learning

The last date for the submission of list of candidates (LOC) for class X and XII for the session 2018-19 extended...See the corrigendum issued by CBSE below:

http://www.cbse.nic.in/newsite/attach/Corrigendum%20Extension%20of%20last%20date%20of%20LOC_2018.pdf

Affiliation bylaws: CBSE makes NCERT books optional. Parents demand only NCERT books, say pvt publishers’ books expensive

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/affiliation-bylaws-cbse-makes-ncert-books-optional/672254.html

VIDYODAYA SCHOOL

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The Bioscope

A Teachers' diary

In this video she cites some of her personal stories which she has heard and was made to believe by certain new age story tellers. In a beautiful manner, she discusses the culture and the story of food. She also hints at the Bollywood and the story it has created around certain beliefs.

What more can a teacher do with this video?1 . G i v i n g l e a r n e rs t h e opportunities to express themselves, encouraging them to recite and write some stories.

2. Providing them the opportunity in the class to discuss certain issues and form opinions after discussion and critique rather than believing in some stories projected by the media or the politicians.

Angry Akku

Akku is having an awful day and her father is trying his best to cool her down with a glass of buttermilk and some vada. Let’s look at the video. What strategy did Akku adopt to cool off her anger?

What more can a teacher do with this video?

1. What strategy will you adopt when you are angry?2. Write a small story describing a day when things did not go according to the plan and it was full of chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D8bK21pPpE

The Danger of a Single Story. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In this video Chimamanda Adichie talks about the danger of a single story and how it affects our lives and our culture, which is composed of many over-lapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie shares the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding of them. We can see people creating single stories and it can be seen as contributing to a certain image of a certain thing in our life. There are many such instances in our life where we hear a single story and perceive it to be true and often misread reality this way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg

Story telling as an effective educational tool

Stories play an important part in our lives. It is an important part of our living. It has the power to take us to some imaginary world where we have never been or even heard of. It is not only a magic wand for the children but also a bestowal for the elders who share their values, ethos, and culture through stories they narrate. Oral Story has its own power through which we tend to get lost and relate oneself with others. Every culture has its own stories to tell and it is told to us through different media of communication. Everyone has a story and we can say that we all are storytellers but some choose better means and place to share them. Stories can be one of the most useful teaching tools for the children as it can help to make them understand some of the more complex or difficult concepts in an engaging manner.

Why Why Girl

Why Why Girl by Mahasweta Devi talks about Moyna who is a tribal girl from Chhattisgarh. She is not able to go to school as she has to take care of her goats, but she is full of questions and does not think twice in asking them if anyone forbids her to do anything. Then the author makes her read books and asks her to find out answers to her questions from the books. Let’s read this book to find out more and go delve into the world of Moyna and her innumerable questions. http://www.hindibookspdf.com/kyun-kyun-ladki-hindi-book-pdf-download/

Deepa Kiran – On Stories

Deepa Kiran in this video talks about the fact that how time has elapsed, but stories still find their value and importance even today. Stories have seen their own progression- from the cave paintings which people used to tell their stories to Facebook, which is used these days to share them. Stories have transitioned through oral, pictorial and script form. She says, ''we are programmed for story-telling''. But there are people who have used stories for their own benefit and purposes. These people are politicians, media and the market campaigners who are the new faces of storytellers we listen to and are probably the best storytellers around us, who work both in positive and negative ways.

What is Democracy?

“Were all instructors to

realize that the quality of

mental process, not the

production of correct answers, is the measure of educative

growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching

would be worked.” The above quote of John Dewey, the

great educational philosopher, brings home a very

important learning for the teachers’, especially today

when all that is measured bears no true reflection of all

that is learned. It is time to rather stop and think of - all that

can be learned.

There is little educational value in acquainting oneself with

one fact or another of predigested materials that hinder

any kind of imaginative and hence constructive growth in

child’s knowledge. Below is a piece from the diary of a

teacher Vagish K Jha, who is engaged in this pursuit of not

having to tell his class the facts in abstract but arrive at a

collective and shared understanding by constructing the

knowledge based on inquiry, freewheeling questioning,

finding counter examples, reflection, debating and so on,

leading to deeper understanding with the joy of

meaningful learning.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cSGvp7hXgEC-

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cjfe5Te-c

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Query: Is it possible to find educational videos on any topics / subjects including those not covered under KClass? Can I do internet search for relevant educational resources in my classroom without being bothered about inappropriate content or advertising?

Solution: Yes, we can access filtered educational resources from the web – both video and image, with MyCloud. My Cloud is available on the top right corner of the KClass Interactive board. My Cloudconnects us to a Web Server in Germany that contains filtered Educational resources. For using My Cloud,we need internet connection with KClass / K-Yan. Follow the steps given below to access filtered educational resources for any topic / any subject.

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Dear Sir,It is a very good initiative of making this newsletter. Content of the newsletter is very much appropriate to the modern context. Especially the experiments and innovation sections would be very useful for the teachers.

Ravi SharmaAcademic Coordinator Arya Vidya Mandir SchoolBandra West, Mumbai

Reader’s Response

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From the KClass bucket

Gijubhai Badheka

A pioneer in the field of primary education, Gijubhai Badheka has written extensively on issues of education, in general and education of children in particular. His contributions are very simple yet influential, and powerful. His thoughts on education especially those relating to the formative years of a child’s growth and learning are of immense relevance even today. His methodology is simple and honest and answers the innumerable questions raised by teachers, parents, students and larger society on education.

Rubaroo

Diwaswapna, written by Gijubhai, is a simple and inspiring tale of a school teacher who, despite severe odds, tries to make learning fun for her children. The article below talks about how the ideas of Gijubhai are still relevant tells what one teacher was able to do when given a chance and a little help.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WDlUG55XYb2a53PQ9Fft__eweElB0Azl/view?usp=sharing