Category: Futuristic Learning

eduARTS

Nominate for eduARTS Commendation

The pure mathematician is more of an artist than a scientist. He does not simply measure the world. He invents complex and playful patterns without the least regard for their practical applicability.”  

Alan Watts

The emerging narrative of expanding STEM to STEAM vindicates the importance of Arts in Education in this technological age.

Smithsonian Magazine said this about Steve Jobs at his death in 2011:

“It’s clear that Steve Jobs was an artist and that his artistry worked at many levels: it was a visual sensitivity that extended outward to a way of thinking about how things worked and how different variables could interact with each other in pleasing harmony.”

Art has also been an effective tool in the sciences. A picture is, as they say, worth a thousand words, and a great many complex scientific ideas have been made so much more accessible through the use of illustrations and all kinds of graphic representations, particularly since the advent of animation, motion pictures and computer graphics.

There is also a science to art. This is evident in the development of the materials, the pigments, the glazes, the nature of clay and stone, blown glass and metal fabrication. There are the aspects of proportion and perspective in drawing and painting and the realm of number theory and mathematics practiced in musical composition, instrument building and the science of acoustics. Recent advances in technology have brought a wealth of understanding to fields of neuroscience shedding new light on both performance and the listening experience as well.

Nominate for eduARTS Commendation

Categories: eduARTS

eduNEWS

The Future of Learning is all about the capability to appreciate the contemporary narrative which is interdisciplinary, global and rapidly evolving.

This capability can be nurtured best by putting the student to a larger gamut of news handpicked for essentially for the purpose of education and correlating it with the entire set of curriculum.

In this age of implosion of information, though the access has become expedient but the process of learning through this method has become all the more daunting.

ReTHINK INDIA has thereby put itself to this task of curating eduNEWS from various credible national and international sources across a various range of subjects.

The essential feature of this eduNEWS would be that it shall be expressed in chunks of 280 characters through the official twitter handle @eduNEWS108 carrying the essential facts and figures at once without requiring a long reading. 18 such eduNEWS items shall be curated every day with a weekly average of 108. All these 108 eduNEWS items shall be put to a weekly test on Sundays which can be taken up by the participating students on their mobiles in around 108 minutes.

While the eduNEWS bytes would be uniform for the students across class 6-12, each of these tests would be tailored to the level of the students.

Monthly rankings of the participating students shall be released as a part of this exercise which shall be reported school wise, city wise, region wise, zone wise and nation wide.

This shall keep the interest of the participating students at large. Every passing week the test would add upon the understanding and analysis of the previous weeks so that the continuity of awareness remains.

Top performing Students who would have emerged out of this exercise shall be felicitated on a periodic basis at New Delhi. The Digital Certificate of Participation shall be given away to all.

If your School is keen to be a part of this eduNEWS Initiative, you may appoint an eduNEWS – Faculty Coordinator to this effect who in turn can motivate the interested students to enroll themselves to eduNEWS.

A nominal participation fee of Rs 1008 has been kept for this entire exercise. In case you have any query or clarification you may please contact Dr. Surbhi at 9910050939.

Categories: Futuristic Learning