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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…

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,…

#3 Self Discovery Series #21 benefits of OpenLearning Imagine Open Learning which guarantees one definitive outcome – that learning will be self-discovery. 16yrs old sharing, “I kept talking, which is better than not talking at all. I did stop during the last drill because everything was going wrong repeatedly, as a result, I got frustrated…

#2 Understand Learner Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning Dunno why we have confused learning with teaching. Learning by definition means, being in sync with the learner – her styles, her methods, her needs, her self. Jayshree, mother of 12yrs old Shreyas sharing, “When I asked my 12-year-old son to take Chess classes in Aarohi.…

Series of #21 benefits of #OpenLearning #1 – Free to Celebrate Everyday Anuj, the mother of 5yr old Suhrud, sharing “Last night, just before going to bed Suhrud picked up paper n colours and started drawing and told me not to peep in & asked me to spell Happy Birthday Aai ( mom) for him.…

Will children not take the easy path, while away time, become lazy or complacent, etc?This can happen not just with a child in open learning, but in conventional schooling/college as well as with us adults at any point of our life. And this is where the family plays an important role, closely reviewing, reflecting, and…

One announcement – anyone would like to try wall painting? She wanted to paint on the wall She has never painted She designed on paper Started to work on the wall Few more joined We decided to use charcoal for the outline She used different combinations to get what color she wanted This too was…

We began with two questionsDo we need Teen/Tween Klub?What do we want to do in this Klub?I informed, “I am not part of this discussion”. I sat in the back seat. And captured some of these conversations We don’t want to, but we may need it.If anyone doesn’t want to join, just don’t join.That anyway…

LAKSHMI, MOTHER OF AVANICame to the campus to pick up AvaniCame with a need “I want to paint anything on the “telescope room”She picked up the need from the campus to “label the wall”.Designed as per the needAdded her masala with different fontsComposed with elements of the sky (Astronomy”Discussed the designComposed the wallCollected the colors,…

The construction of understanding and learning not only is natural in children (just how a toddler constructed a whole mother tongue) it is the way they enhance their cognitive powers. The child uses his thinking to experiment, to know, to make sense, to create his own learning. The child naturally explores, invents, copies from peers,…

In free play, there is no right or wrong. So our recommendation – Cut out the judgment; let the child just play ( if possible join them, have fun, and burn calories for free!) Play not just with games and toys, but play with knowledge, with concepts, with skills, with images, with emotions, with the…

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