[IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher
Yamandu Ploskonka
yamaplos at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 10:35:42 EDT 2010
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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