[IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

[Caryl Bigenho]

Great stuff! Thanks for the link, Sabbu.  I need more time to explore this, but it looks very much like the old frontier one-room schools in the USA. Actually, there are still a lot of them in places like rural Montana.  A lot of great people came out of this type of school with wonderful educations, so we know it can work. I wonder how the XO and Sugar could best be integrated into this.
I would love to see a sample of the "School in a Box"
Caryl

> From: kksubbu.ml at gmail.com
> To: yamaplos at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:23:26 +0530
> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher
> 
> On Monday 01 Nov 2010 9:43:28 am Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
> > Are y'all familiar with the RIVER Project? (Rishi Valley Institute for 
> > Educational Resources)
> > their website doesn't do quite justice on how concepts like this 
> > multi-age social-based mentoring that is being shared have in a most 
> > appropriate approach to education in poor areas.
> > 
> > http://www.river-rv.org/
> Thank you for this link. It is good to know of other efforts towards 
> educational reforms. MGML is already in place for grades 1-3 in all public 
> schools in my state and is being expanded to higher grades every year.
> 
> MGML is a problem only in curricular-driven environments. This is how children 
> learn, say, in homes or in playground. Grouping happens naturally by level of 
> competence and interest rather than by age.
> 
> Previous efforts that I tracked did not close the loop. That is, they would 
> train teachers and expect changes to happen but did not verify if learning 
> actually happened. No method works for every child. That is why Sikshana 
> decided to work backwards - ensure every child is able to learn and keep 
> learning and support teachers to use their own masala (mix) of methods.
> 
> Subbu
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