Category: OpenLearning
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A Multicourse Learning Menu
Ever noticed how we plan our restaurant outings or everyday meals? We pick new spots, try different cuisines, and make sure to consider everyone’s choices—vegan, dessert-lover, or the “I’ll eat anything” type. Every meal is an experience. But when it comes to learning, we often serve up the same bland dish every day- same books,…
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One gift every child deserves
If you could give your child just one gift, what would it be? Unconditional love? Freedom? Maybe just being their best buddy? At Aarohi, we think the best gift ever is support. Support to discover who they are, to explore their strengths, and to grow into their unique selves. It’s about standing by them, believing in…
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Does your child struggle to sit in a classroom and study?
In a traditional school system, many children struggle because they either find the subjects uninteresting or can’t relate to them. Each child has their own reasons. It’s a system where not every child thrives because it focuses on a fixed curriculum and exams, rather than child’s interests or natural abilities. At Aarohi, kids have the…
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How does my child manage my learning inability?
Our Open Learning journey is full of fun, surprises, and challenges. My biggest challenge as a parent is dealing with my internal conflict. It is like walking on a forked path always. One path leads to the safe environment of the “known” and family/friends. Another path is traversing a beautiful “unknown”. My mood for the…
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Algorithm for child’s exploration in an Open Learning Environment
Open Learning is all about multiple explorations. Learning stems from the joyful explorations not from a parent’s agenda to make child learn. Explore how parents can expand the horizon of exploration.
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Children too can walk through walls
Today at Aarohi Campus, a 9 year old girl who was sitting outside our kitchen wall, asked me for water.I promptly told her that if she wants water she can walk east and she will soon reach Bay of Bengal and get lots of free water.She looked at the direction (east) where my finger was…
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CAT – Life’s curriculum
When it comes to educating our children, “curriculum” is normally the first question that comes to people’s mind. We try to figure out between NIOS or CBSE or ICSE or IGCSE or … let the child learn from life. Often LIFE CURRICULUM is not so clear and many fall back to conventional academic curriculum. Here…
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Reflective Insightful Quizzes
Reflective & Insightful Quizzes for Parents, Teen-Parents and Teenagers.We have three of these using google forms – each with 8-10 questions – no response is right or wrong – since the idea of each question is to help you delve into deeper self reflection.
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Unsettle the minds – Thinking
My idea of Education is to Unsettle the minds of young and inflame their intellect. Robert Maynard Hutchins After finishing my institutional education when I started my own organization I started looking for people to work with me. Over the period I realized people pursued knowledge too much. May be our education / societal structure…
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Uncage Child’s Potential
Can we change the potential of a child? Or we can facilitate the children to find their own peaks. Can we see a limitless child who can manifest his / her potential?
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Reflective Questions
Reflection brings clarity. One of the way to reflect is to question. Let’s create our own question bank to reflect on various aspects. Ask question to oneself and to children. Have a conversation around such reflective questions with family and friends.
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Facilitation by Creating
To live is to create. Facilitation itself is an act of creation. Let’s explore creating some aspects of facilitation which can open kaleidoscope of possibilities for whom we facilitate and for ourselves.
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An open letter to Teachers
Teachers impact children’s life to a great extent. Does teaching happens from textbooks or from books of life. In that case are we all not the student in class of life? Let’s all the life in the same room of class.
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Our Body is the key to our Mind
With time and contemporary education the focus on body movements diminished yet the desire to make mind more productive increased by leaps and bounds. Are body and mind two separate entities or mind is part of the body?