Sakuraa Nihongo Resource Centre (SNRC)” is the language division of a listed decade old enterprise. SNRC offers a bouquet of Japanese language & cultural skills. read more

I spend much of my time reading, writing, discussing, and blogging about ideas around the broad theme of 21st Century learning. More specifically, what should 21st Century learning look like? How can social networking technologies be harnessed in learning spaces? read more

 Different shades of intelligence

Published in Education Times, TOI, Delhi on 30th June, 2008

‘ I am not intelligent, I lack read more

DEAR GENERAL CHEMISTRY TEACHERS by  CAMILO A. read more

A new member has just posted an elog about making history more relevant (welcome krishna). I present a slightly more sceptical (or is it cynical?) view of history as taught in schools. My only qualification for writing this elog is history was one of my favorite topics in high school and a pretty large amount of historical reading I have done over the years

First the obvious - what is history? a recording in some form of the events/culture/happenings of some period going back in physical time. read more

Listening to Geetha Narayanan, one of the leading educationists of and in India today, is always a pleasure. I know of very few speakers who can get people to listen to them talk and imprint in their mind ideas and spirit and vision without the listeners having to resort to pen and paper to take down notes. She does this frequently, in the realm of education. Months after I listened to her  recently - nearly three to be precise, in this case - her ideas about future school remain so clearly in my head that I feel like putting them down here. read more

My son- 3, just loves to wash and clean, he takes dishes toys, dishes, clothes and anything thats possible to get in to the bathroom and can be happy for almost an hour...and i haven't stopped him!...but i keep wondering if i should join him or let him be by himself? And if i do join him...what shld i b doing?

Since September 2006, the Achievers’ Programme based in Chandigarh and MAW Education, UK, have been introducing the multiple intelligences theory to school teachers across India. read more

CULTURES THAT TAUGHT ME
Basuvan was a short man, according to his own ‘Kattunayakar’ brethren. He was about four-and-a-half-feet in height, thin, wiry and would have never exceeded about 45 kilo grams on any day. His ancestors were experts in the art of tapping honey from those massive combs that dangled on the near sky-high trees of the beautiful undulating Malabar hills in the Western Ghats. Basuvan was according to his own people, closest to their ancestors when it came to cajoling honey out of the combs. read more

The latest Businessweek has a discussion/debate on whether "the search engine makes it so easy to get data that users forgo deeper study?"

Sure, Google can deliver facts and figures at lightning speed. But is it turning users away from other avenues of learning such as books, scholarly magazines, lectures, and classes? read more