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When Howard Gardner put forward his Theory of Multiple Intelligences (in 1983), he was only acknowledging something we have all intuitively known – the existence of different abilities (intelligences) inside each one of us. Understanding of Multiple Intelligence helps in understanding Open Learning. It builds a child’s self-belief in his or her own abilities, strengths…

Home alone is exhibited as an exciting concept Don’t know where this concept came from? On Sunday, there was no adult at the campus Some Kids were alone at the campus Some experiences shared I was more alert I felt insecure I felt more responsible and more responsibility The group helped to bring variety in…

Activity Club brings in many different ways to explore – math through games, research,reading, doingExploring play with numbers by solving Suduko – Children shared Suduko is not play with numbers – It needs Prediction, Guess, Random, Pattern, Trial, and Error. Gameday – We played memory games using pictures of our national leaders.What strategies we use…

Young Chemists are experimenting with different chemicals in making a lava lamp and slime making.Lava Lamp: He is totally focused, involved and curious to check output in his Experiment.He Plans to choose his experiment on weekends, Monday or Tuesday. He gives a list of resources to be checked if it’s available and on Wednesday he…

Preparation for Learning Mela Stimulation – Do you all love to teach? – Yes. Would you like to conduct learning Mela for your juniors – YESSSS.Action – The immediate response was making their own groups, discussed what to teach, how to teach, where to teach, what resources l do we need to teach and came…

Stimulation – We all love to look beautiful. How do we make ourselves beautiful?We saw images to collect thoughts about shiny teeth, soft and glowing skin, long and silky hairs, clean washed clothes. .Activity – We all listed 10 products which we use in our daily life.We questioned do we know how are these made…

Analyzing our week – In a week 168 hrs – What goes where?Analyze day and calculate different experiences from the day – experience whole number, fraction, percentage, mathematical language, graph/pie chart and accounting of hours. How many hours of sleep?How many hours for exposure?How many hours for skill development?How many hours for self-care?How many hours…

One ball, Few ropes, some distance to cover, and a target of putting in a bottle.It was not the game or the target, but it was all about coming together, playing together and being together and that’s all!

We played human chess – a simple game with live pawns. Same rules as chess, but the option of discussing our reasoning. Just a small game and we experienced the concepts of logical thinking, permutation-combination, data collection, critical thinking, visual thinking, patterns, predictions, probability, cause-effect, evaluation, strategy, and rules!

Rs 400/- missingSome peers came forward to listen and support Encouraged – Share in helpmate with the community Suggestion – collect Rs 20/- each Questions raised – what efforts to find that missing money? Thoughts – If doubting anyone, people will feel bad Questions raised – Money more important or people Solution – Search again,…

Mathematical reasoning is all part of our lives – but sometimes, for some people, the word “mathematics” brings worries or the sight of numbers puts you off (I can’t do, I don’t know) or it excites you? We explored mathematical reasoning with games and puzzles. We played human chess – a simple game with live…

Lets Listen Sexuality In a way, sex education is not about education, but about our sexuality.In a way, education is not about studies, subjects, degrees, but about our life. John Sinclair, the poet, once announced, a workshop on Writing. The huge hall was teeming with people, some even hanging on the windows for want of…

This session was a surprise to me and broke my belief that “Many children don’t like to read books”. Stimulation:We did settle our minds with a small Visualization. Imagine with closed eyes, We are surrounded by books and what type of book interests me, and spent silence self-time with the music. Many felt uncomfortable to…

Stimulation:Do we all love to travel, how do you choose the place to travel ? – Yes, we all love it. We choose the place to visit to meet friends, family, to visit temples, To see the Palace, Museums, Parks, Forts, Place.Does Kelamangalam have such kind of attractions – Nooooooo . Do we all think…

Stimulation – Pictures of landfill – Am i part of this Waste Management. Am i also responsible for this mountain of waste? — YESSSSSSSS Session – Each group got a bag of waste to segregate based on the timeline taken to degrade waste.Children were Confused, how and what. We clarified – there was no right…

I know what I want to do, planning is done, time slots are assigned, but it still does not happen and it happens – why? What is that something working inside us which is making it happen or making it not happen? Yes…you are there “Habits of mind”. They are the operating system of our…

Creativity means we have the ability to create. And we can create anything. We can create – in ourselves – worry, calmness, fear, understanding, confusion, clarity, complexities, simplicity and … choices. In that sense, we are all creators. Creativity means we always have a choice. CREATIVITY PROCESS Collect – Collect loads of data, samples, instances,…

Understanding retail business and Statistics with Deep from Mumbai, he runs his retail shop of school supplies in Mumbai, Imagine Aarohi, where we learn from whosoever, can we… Words we heard – FMCG, luxurious products, essential for day to day life, Target area, Target age, Target population, Margin, discount, competition, neighbor shop, mall, online, attractive…

If safety is part of life, then why not understand it!In the teen club, we began with talking about, what all different kinds of areas we can understand safety?Each one of us wants to explore more on our own, create our own understanding based on our reading/research and experiences.The intent is to create awareness and…

A letter from a learner Dear,I’ve to send you so many things. Will send one by one. Today I’m sending a specimen of my Hindi learning effort. Why I’m learning Hindi.. Because I need to learn my language…and it is important. If I learn to read and write Hindi I’d be able to learn Sanskrit,…

It was an intense workshop with Agni Band, people dedicated to bringing ParaiAttam to the people. Parai Attam is a folk dance in Tamil Culturein which folks beat Parai (instrument) and dance (attam) to its rhythm. First day, the first 15 minutes, I wanted to run away, as I thought I would not be able…

Recording of the Webinar on Open Learning / Unschooling / HomeSchooling, 12Feb is available on youtube here https://youtu.be/seWiPUF5skw The presentation (which is also like a concise guide to unschooling) is available herehttps://aarohilife.org/home/resources/concise-guide-open-learning-unschooling-homeschooling Check out more resources here https://aarohilife.org/home/resources/open-learning Email / call back if you want us to respond to some of your questions.

What does manifestation mean? Being the best version of yourself Living a life that you love, manifesting your desires and dreams into reality Feeling your best and creating the best experiencesfor yourself. The focus of this teen club was to get in touch with what would I like to manifest this year – 2020 in…

What is development? Growth, Better, City? Country?Think of places you think are underdeveloped and are developed in the world and why- some of the criteria for individuals were:Developed – Population, Nature and Easy living, Technology, Literacy, Cool stuff, Big Buildings, Best in everything, Costumes, Developed cars and roads, Bollywood, WI-Fi all around, smart disposal of…

When we started our journey with children 20years back one of the great sources of learning were writings from various educators in the field of education, Maria Montessori was one of them. Learning is not limited to age – More than 300 Teachers coming together to learn from different people. It was indeed a great…

A date with a book club with 14 yr old learner – This 14yr old was not small to lead this whole initiative. She likes books and is our librarian, she wanted to create an event around the library and that’s why this book club. In different groupsRead a book and expand a paragraph into…

Kids of different ages interacting with each other to discuss their goals, planning, reviewing learning, suggesting, questioning and supporting – 13 and 16 are not too small to interact with each other and guide each other on their learning plans, 8 and 9 yr olds are not too small to interact with each other and…

This 8yr old is not too small to organize an outdoor trip to Bangalore Palace in Chamrajpet. Trip plan: 10am – Reach the palace 10-1 See palace 1-2 lunch (get from home) 2 reflection and bye bye ta-ta The journey began with a belief “she can do it” – rest was just exploration for her.She…

Just a small debate session brought an opportunity to get engaged with different topics – a lot of research went into by each individual to present a one minute’s facts and proving the point – enjoyed the whole process.This 13yr old was not too small to lead and design this whole experience, not only for…

This week’s curriculum at the campus – Expressing my needs and wants and ways of responding to situations, Reading, football, learning songs on keyboard, singing, gardening, poetry, observing, researching, screenplay, stitching, termite treatment, English, Maths, Zentangling products, catch up with NIOS subjects, make classy pots, jewelry making, understanding vitamin D, stuck market course, campus medic,…