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Isn’t the child’s future in open learning insecure?
Here is a reply by Asawari, an open learner who has not given 10th/12th, no degrees… “When I read this question, I was wondering if everything in my life is a gamble? My friendships, my relationships, marriage, career, even choosing a dish to order in the restaurant. So when I make a decision it’s the…
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Do open learners give 10th / 12th / go to college?
This is something we all need to realise that getting a certificate is a CHOICE. No certificate is mandatory in our country and hence the moot question is why one wants to give 10th / 12th / or go to college? If a child has a reason, then definitely the child would and can give…
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If we / my child wants to, how can an open learning child give 10th/12th to join a college?
These are the current options available:The child can give 10th/12th via the central government’s NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling). Some state boards also allow private candidates.Another interesting option is to join a school around 9th/10th grade so that that child can give 10th via CBSE or ICSE or state board.If a child is considering…
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How will the child build a career without going through college?
Simply put there is no one way, rather many organic ways. First the child develops basic skills in his or her field using loads of self work, coaching, projects, courses and workshops. Most children, once ready in terms of their skills and age, hop onto internships, apprenticeships, mentorship or even taking jobs. Rest is learning…
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What if the child is denied job opportunities etc because he/she does not have a degree?
This is possible, though rare. Usually people in today’s world are denied jobs only if they do not bring the requisite experience and expertise. Since open learners would not have the degree to prove themselves, they will have to present their portfolio of experience and expertise.Also note that without a degree children may not be…
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How can open learners go abroad (out of India) for higher education or career?
The options here are not just defined by the field but more by the country which the child wants to goto. Many universities abroad offer open courses, where selection is either open or based on the child’s portfolio. Or the child may give an entrance / qualification examination.The child can also, based on his or…
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Do open learning children only go for the art /music kind of fields?
Open learning is not limited to any field – one can go ahead and build one’s professional career in any field right from tenchinoly, to finance to art to business to writing to … You would realise almost all fields lend space for entrepreneurs, freelancers as well as jobs.
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How can we evaluate the child’s progress without any exams?
The Child here evaluates his or her progress. The child’s work and portfolio are normally the major source of progress tracking. Also since the child would be interacting with the world at all the times, the world may give appropriate feedback. For example somebody interested in writing would get feedback from say a newspaper or…
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How do you bring the environment of excellence, how does a child get motivated to excel?
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I am in sync with the philosophy of open learning but have fear of the future?
Please note fear will be there whether you take the school-college route or you go self directed. Fear, fortunately is not out there in the world. And since it’s only in our minds, we can use understanding of ourselves and the world around us to work on it. Fear is also used as a tool…
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Learning Environment – this week
My collection on learning environment last week In the morning I heard “coookdoo coo” and I felt nice to hear this sound. I realized that this came to me through different people – Ratnesh recognizing the needs, announcing as a project, Achalesh joining it, Muniraj and akkas bringing their knowledge, Chitra sharing her experience and…
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Simply experimenting
It began with sorting expiry medicines from the first aid cupboardAnd then an idea “can I put them in a chemical?And then we dug our chemical cupboard and found acetic acid And then a bit reading about the acid, before started to experimentAnd then a question what is corrosionAnd then a disintegrated cork of the…
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Reflective Learning – Change
CHANGE Is there change happening every day/every week?We paused to gather some of that from our week Reflection is one of the learning tools at Aarohi for open learningPavan and Sakila called it “evolution”Messy or sortedBoredom or interesting Confusion or ClarityRegret or Acceptance Brief or Conversational Conflict or Consensus Disinterested or Tuned in Play or…
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#13 Carrotless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
#13 Benefit – Carrotless Learning Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning Chitra a mother sharing, “Yesterday Zohar and I were working on English…he told me he wanted to work by himself and ‘compose’ something as mama does on her email …then he said…words can be boring I will make it more interesting for myself…ok I…
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#14 Forceless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
#14 Benefit – Forceless Learning Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning Krishiv, 12yrs old sharing, “I accidentally made that weird squiggle on the right while I was fidgeting with my mouse and then I immediately saw the possibility and drew the thing on the left. I use different tools for different things and I discover…
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#15 Measureless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #15 – Measureless Learning He has been engaged for the last 2/3 days with these water jelly beads his cousin gave him. How does it swell when left in water, how does it become a bead again, sorting them color-wise, size-wise, arranging them as soldiers, photographing them with my…
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#16 Countless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #16 Countless Learning – Ceaseless Learning Parents of 9yrs old Achalesh sharing He doesn’t Walk, Talk, Balk: He Flies, Sings, and Jumps-in. He consciously-intentionally-wilfully practices, among other things that we as Parents attach lots of importance to, and enjoys: Self-Social Restraints, Inter-Dependence-Relatedness-Connections, Compassion-Democracy-Equality, Internationalism, Love-Care-Understanding-Empathy, and a lot of…
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#17 Freedom to Design my Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #17 – Design my Learning 17yrs old Aswathy sharing“After spending time previously exploring the different aspects of filmmaking, doing some deliberate practice, making short films, and finally doing the visioning exercise, I stopped and asked the question, what am I really working towards? And why? Personal values seemed like…
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#18 Reflective Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #18 – Reflective Learning “He is into board games, play, movies, and reading. He asked us to reflect on > What games did you play this week? > What new games did you play? > Was there a challenge in the game? > What books did you read? >What…
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#19 Doorless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #19 – Doorless Learning An experience“Designing a robot, with measurement – started with any measurement and then this much, that much, and then a big inch and small inch and feet. Understanding scale measurement The detailed design of Robot, a lot of discussion on measurement, and then collecting resources,…
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#20 many Styles – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #20 – Many Style – My Style 9yr old open learner sharing, “We finished this puzzle yesterday. It has 1000 pieces. Can you believe it! It has one piece missing. I learned that you have to be very sharp at colors and shapes for this. A few techniques: Check…
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#21 Fearless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #21 – Fearless Learning It began with an idea “how about a radio channel of Aarohi” A session on how to start your radio shadow to spark the idea and the rest is a creation story. We rehearsed almost every day. Mutually decided changes in the script and sequencing…
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#10 Unlimited Ways – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #10 – Unlimited Ways There many ways one can learn and we don’t need to bind our children with one way of learning. Open Learning allows exploring those unlimited ways Bindhu, sharing her experience of writing the first chapter of a story with her 10yrs old daughter ” We…
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#11 Boundless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning#11 – Boundless LearningThe world is our curriculum, we learn from life for life Sakila sharing “Since we started with OL, I was trying to give exposure to @pavan with different prompts. He would get interested for a couple of days and then it fades away. Last week I ran…
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#12 Ceaseless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #12 – Ceaseless Learning Advay wrote screenplay for a short film and he wanted to make it for real. The film was quite imaginative, so we did a trial shoot for a small segment of the film. This is a video story about that shoot. He says , “I…
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#4 No age bar to learning – Series #21 benefits of OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #4 Benefit – No age bar to learning Sakila, a mother sharing, “Tried sketching this yesterday. The edges have a 3d effect by merging the lines and the shading. But the rim doesn’t look 3d maybe because it’s a curvey surface. Maybe the 3d shading technique for curvey, and…
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#5 Play is Learning – Series #21 benefits of OpenLearning
#5 – Play is LearningSeries of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning Ambica, part of the science-exploration club sharing, “We had all bouncy bouncy explorations today, some weren’t but still some were exploring with paper, broken hockey sticks, balls(jelly types, rubber, plastic). We read a resource on the net about how things fall, Advay & Nandini explained…
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#6 Families Learning Together – Series #21 benefits of OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #6 Benefit – Family learning Together Mother of 12yrs old, Srishti sharing, “Trying my hands at food photography. Srishti made these cupcakes in today’s cooking klub. Double bumper for me. I get to eat and also opportunities for taking pictures. Now that Srishti is into baking, I am getting…
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#7 The World is our curriculum – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #7 – The World is our curriculum But what is the curriculum? Is it defined by me or the learner or none or both? Life is part of the curriculum Living is our curriculum When all this merges, it just becomes an experience. From the travel diary of Mishti,…
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#8 The Limitless Learning – Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning
Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #8 Benefit – The Limitless Learning Trupti, a young adult, part of the Aarohi Community sharing “I had thought of hosting an open community space in Mumbai. But, as, I am a product of the same system, I have many fears – what will people say, how will people…