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Exploring POETRY – just like thatSome people signed upAnd started their journeyAnd that’s how learning continued … 9 weeks, 9 hours, 540 minutes, 32,400 seconds When I proposed the idea, I was pushing myself out of my comfort zone as neither was I a poet nor did I really understand poetry or rhyming or ……..!…

1 Once there was a bindass open learnerWho put herself on the hot burner She was on fireBurning with desire Roasted her skills till she become a super earner 2 Once a set of parents thought otherwise Not to run behind any kind of prizeFocus on his interestHis Passions and his zest And viola they…

Few interested in designingThen an invitation “GANG of designers who will either design together or in subgroups or even individually but would meet regularly to discuss, question each other, give ideas, read design books, see videos and so on. We would get designers of different kinds to do guest sessions or workshops or just to…

For the first two weeks, I explored most of the klubs and picked the ones I was interested in. I also listed klubs for Pavan which I thought he needs while I associated them to classes. I set reminders to remind him and persuaded him to attend. At this stage, my belief about open learning…

Every week at the campus is differentEach week is created by the people LEARNING is allabout ME and MY choicesmy DOING andmy EXPERIENCESand my REFLECTIONS Living is the curriculumOur learnings come out of our living

CHANGE a BIT – one habit that was there yesterday and today, but now you would like to change it PERSONAL HYGIENEBathing not doing – I want to do it, Bathing once in a week – want to change it to twice a weekNot brushing in the morning – will do from now Not brushing…

Baking in firewood oven – found broken glass pieces in the OvenBroken glasses often have an association with “danger, waste”. Kids who were working on it wanted to remove these glass pieces, wondering why this dangerous waste in the oven? This brought a discussion – what are these broken glasses doing in the oven? Is…

There are no typical days at the campus. Each day is differentThis week was no different“I decide” was the beginning of the weekOpening CIrcle to chart my journeysome fitness with the morning sunshine, some understanding, some doingMorning circle to connect and collaborateAnd then the day open to design – cook or read or play or…

A river starts somewhere and flows. As it flows through different landscapes other rivers and streams join. Some fork and separate out, and rejoin after some time. And the river always flows into and joins a sea or an ocean. We can see that in the natural course of things, life and learning is also…

EBAANSH Describing –The name of the waterfall is Metre falls most of the locals know it as metre, a huge waterfall and a lot of fun jumping over the stones going in the water, there were multiple small ponds, different sizes of rocks huge, and even small, got some amazing photos. You can easily spend…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

#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…

#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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

#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…

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…

Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #9 – Joyful Learning A group of people in the community from different ages decided to record a story and their story “We started with few voice exercises where on the first day we tried working on the ‘pitch’. The second day was more about picking up the characters…

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…