Mysore/Mysuru: The Flipped Classroom concept offers an innovative solution to the unmet challenges of traditional class room. Using video technology students digest content at their own pace and use their time in the classroom to tackle difficult problems. It also creates practical instances to foster face to face collaboration, says Dr. N. N. Prahallada, former…
Karnataka Government allows schools to conduct online classes
June 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Education Department on Saturday issued a fresh order allowing Schools in the State to conduct online classes. Following an order by the High Court, the State Government has issued the above statement and private schools are now allowed to continue online classes from first standard to tenth standard students. This order will be…
Tips For Managing Your Children Home Education
June 24, 2020There are many things that the current Covid-19 pandemic has disturbed as far as our daily routine and lives are concerned. While on the one hand, millions of jobs have been lost in the country and across the world, children are also getting badly impacted. Their schools and educational routines are being torn apart. As…
Cancel holidays on Jayantis: Educational Advisor Prof. M.R. Doreswamy
June 19, 2020Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government has been advised by its Educational Advisor to cancel holidays observed in educational institutions on the occasion of various Jayantis (birth anniversaries). Advisor to Karnataka Government on Education, Prof. M.R. Doreswamy has recommended cancellation of holidays on Jayantis and celebrate the day with more meaningful programmes remembering the great personalities. The…
Special bus to ferry children through forest
February 11, 2020Primary Education Minister Suresh Kumar assures Pachchedoddi villagers during his School stay Children walk miles to School amidst thick jungle and fear of wild animals. Mysore/Mysuru: Continuing his series of overnight village School stays, Primary and Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar stayed at Pachchedoddi Government Primary School last night. The school is located at…
‘Tipu not to be dropped from text books this year’
February 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Asserting that lessons on Tipu Sultan will not be withdrawn from School Textbooks, Primary and Higher Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar said that the Text Books Review Committee is of the opinion that a much wider debate is needed on the issue. Speaking to press persons at Manasagangotri here on Monday, Suresh Kumar…
Birth of a Prodigy
October 24, 2019By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A true story: My name is Mildred Honor. I am a former elementary school music teacher from Des moines, Iowa. I have always supplemented my income by teaching piano lessons. Something I have done for over 30 years. During those years, I found that children have many levels…
Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee and Pratham NGO
October 20, 2019Ideas worthy of a Nobel Prize This article is related to Nobel Laureate Prof. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and his association with Pratham. Many of his research findings which won him and his associates the Nobel Prize recently are a result of his collaboration with Pratham. By Ashvini Ranjan, Managing Trustee, Pratham Mysore Abhijit Banerjee, the…
How Practical Experience Creates Job-Ready Graduates
October 17, 2019The higher education is, by any means an important basis for the further career. However, the graduates, who apply for their first job after years of studying frequently hear the famous phrase: “Forget everything you were taught in college.” Why does such a thing happen? It is the lack of practical skills that may pose…
Taking EDUCATION to next level with TECHNOLOGY
July 11, 2019Mandya PES Engineering College students show how Virtual Reality can transform the way we learn and teach Mysuru: We all have been hearing a lot over the past few years about how Virtual Reality (VR) has the potential to transform the way we learn and teach. From providing in-depth knowledge and helping us understand complex…
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