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

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

As far as I know it *is* being implemented - with much success.  There 
seems to be a delay in reporting on how things are going - usual issue, 
people good at doing things are not necessarily the best at advertizing 
them...

I've been pushing a bit for already a year on getting someone to report 
in detail about RIVER.  I do have a nice French-made documentary 
somewhere, will see if I can find it and somehow get it to y'all, but 
cannot promise.

Yama

On 11/01/2010 03:37 AM, Rakesh Biswas wrote:
> Thanks Subbu for the great link on the Rishi valley initiative.
>
> It would really change the face of Indian education if what has been 
> proposed on the web site can be really implemented.
>
> :-)
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:cbigenho at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://kksubbu.ml>@gmail.com <http://gmail.com>
>     > To: yamaplos at gmail.com <mailto:yamaplos at gmail.com>
>     > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:23:26 +0530
>     > CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org <mailto: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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