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Driving Divergent Thinking in Our Children

May 18, 2011
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| Categories: Children, Divergent thinking, Parenthood, Reform in School System, Reforms, School system

I came across this interesting video presentation talk by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award. In the video he talks about what’s wrong with public education and why paradigm change is required. While the talk and the statistics are primarily USA centric, I think the state of affairs and the arguments he states are quite valid even in India, and perhaps most of the world.I feel that divergent thinking, while reduces as we grow up and get "educated", can increases…

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A Day in the Life of a Student

August 1, 2010
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| Categories: Children, education, influences, school, school life, student, studies, thoughts

My 10 year old son wrote a creative writing piece as part of his home work that I just had to post here. It has some interesting insights into the lessons of life he might be imbibing at this age. So here it is with due permissions from my son to post it on my blog (with corrected spellings).A day in the life of a studentAs everyone knows that student life is difficult, I would first plan my day so that I don’t have to plan it afterwards. I would…

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The Future as Children See It

September 7, 2009
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| Categories: Children, Future, Trends

My soon-to-be-10-year-old son has been introduced to various ages of history thanks to a popular computer game. Out of curiosity, I asked him what ‘age’ we are currently in. According to him, we are currently in the “Touch age”. He is inspired by the iPhone and other touch screen phones he is exposed to. The next age according to him will be the “Talk age”. We will just need to talk to the machines and they will act on what we say. After that we will have the “Think age”.…

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