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Four people. Four journeys. One house.

Deep Thoughts on Homework by James and Ashram

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May 08, 2019

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Farmhouse Retreat

February 07, 2019

My class on Education Policy and Decentralisation took a field trip to a village. One of the students, Sanjeet, was kind enough to offer his farmhouse for all of us to stay at the night before. Sanjeet has an amazing story which I will save for another post. Briefly though, for 20 years or so he worked in the corporate world and decided to leave his job and enter in the MA program at Azim Premji University. His family runs a school in a village outside Bangalore and he wanted to learn more about education in India and put his talents to good use in the social sector. There was about 15 of us including my Professor, Dr. Paik. This class is more like a community and how they interact with each other, with me, and our Professor is a case study in itself. Right from day 1 of the class, I felt the warmth, kindness, and enthusiasm from each one of them. The farmhouse adventure is a testament to their true generosity and compassion. We left the campus around 5:30pm on this bus th...

My Fulbright Conference Panel Presentation

February 28, 2019

Educators on Fulbrights really know how to present and make it interactive. Each one of us had a unique way of presenting that was engaging more so than any other panel presentation I attended. All of the other panel presenters, got up spoke about their presentation and used the 15 minutes to run through a powerpoint. Ok not all, but most. And then there was the panel I was on. Truth be told, I thought I was going to be the show stopper with my interactive plan for 15 minutes, but I was wrong. Others on the panel were interactive as well. I am not just saying this because it was the panel I was on, it truly was great to see all the different interactive styles and to know that there are many educators like myself who care deeply about engaging students in their education. I wish that our panel could have met for 30-40 minutes before our presentation and worked together to come up with a unified workshop that explored all of our projects. The presenters on my panel were...

Digital Thinking Process and Bengaluru FC

January 30, 2019

Today was a full full day with lots of exciting adventures day and night! First, I observed a 7th grade class. So so different than my classroom in the U.S. Neither good or bad just different. It is hard to describe. Afterwards my teacher mentor and I discussed Design Thinking Process (DTP) which is a student centered approach to teaching and learning. Keep in mind I am just learning this method and she asked me how I would incorporate DTP to the content they are learning on the Moghul Empire. I loved thinking on my feet and was proud of my response. I told her that she could ask them to extract lessons that can be learned from the Empire. Once they did that, they could apply it to their realities today and how they can use the lessons learned in their lives. For example each student is assigned a house (kind of like Harry Potter), they could learn common imperial tactics used by the Moghuls to “conquer” the opposing houses. As I was explaining my idea she was taking notes and sugge...