Tag: Exploring
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How to create a Curriculum for homeschooling / open learning
In one of the communication groups of Parents from the Aarohi community, a parent asked “What is the best curriculum for homeschooling children”? In her words “My child is saying better put me in building school as I don’t know what to do at home and get bored. What is your suggestion here” The curriculum…
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A child sharing observations and reflections from his trip to the Passport office
10-year-old Rohit is an open learner. His passport was to be renewed. He was very nervous on the day of the appointment because he thought he would miss his cricket coaching. Finally, he and his father started for the passport office. He called his mom after an hour to convey that they were on their…
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Nudge – A subtle tool for parents pursuing Open Learning
How gentle cues of our environment shape our behavior. We know them as Nudges. Let’s explore can we use Nudges to enhance open learning.
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Divided by Subjects, United by Knowledge
Can we break our knowledge into subjects? What happens when we imbibe the knowledge without these boundaries? Let’s explore
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Exposure-Exploration-Collaboration – Ikigai of Learning
Exposure sparks curiosity, and what ignites our interest becomes the fuel for exploration. Collaboration shapes and aligns the exploration to our learning goals.
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Collateral Learnings while doing everyday things.
During the summer months, Tej has been experimenting with mango recipes at home, making dishes like mango falooda, mango lassi, and mango shrikhand regularly. Due to the high temperatures, there was a need for a matka to store drinking water since fridge water is too cold and filtered water isn’t as satisfying. This led to…
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Milestones in Open Learning
Are you a traveler or a tourist? A tourist goes by checking the milestones while a traveler creates his milestones. Open Learning is all about being the traveler of your learning journey.
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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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The Art of Listening Vs Hearing – Experiential Learning
We often do not notice the profound difference between Listening & Hearing in our world filled with constant noise and distractions. Here is a snippet of Experiential Learning through Reflection For one of our Reflection Activities during Thought Club at our campus of open learning, we all shared our thoughts/ experiences/ awareness about Hearing Vs…
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Conquering Fears : “A Journey Through Rock Climbing”
We embarked on a thrilling journey through the rugged & raw landscapes as we explored outdoor rock climbing. We also explored the sheer joy of scaling heights, the natural beauty of nature, and the rawness that only outdoor can offer. ~ We planned in detail about having a safe & enjoyable experience for all.~ We…
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Children can be great mentors, this is what Learning Mela taught us
What happens when children mentor adults? Here’s the story….. It all started with a Santa seeding the idea of Learning Mela, 18+ year olds (adults) of the community would conduct the workshops and 18- year olds (young ones) would be the mentors to adults. All parents, teens and tweens of the community got together for…
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Menu Making Day
It was just a lazy and casual breakfast talk on a Sunday morning. It all started with one kid asking “what is the lunch for today?”. I put that same question back. We were looking forward to see what menu we can decide for that day but ended up making whole week’s menu together. It…
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Let’s Bake
Food is one thing that brings people together and my learning is any bake be it cakes/ cookies/ breads/ any savouries not only touches the senses but soul too 😊 Baking is more than just another activity of putting ingredients together and waiting for outcome. I learn a lot with each baking and see how…
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All Hands Matter
Regardless of age or knowledge or position or role everyone has the capacity to do anything and everything they want to do and make a huge difference to themselves and whole community. Everyday at Campus ,we see various hands working together to make a thing happen in any activity be it the carpentry, gardening, experiments,…
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A Visit to Fire Station
One kid randomly asked “how about visiting Fire Station” as we were discussing about going for Outdoors. At Aarohi, Outdoor refers to visiting any space to explore, meet people and know about the process/ people. Also we used to discuss Fire at Safety Training sessions in Campus. We collectively made a plan with dialing contact…
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Fear and Children
Fears often multiply more with collective anxiety that a group of people experience together with lots of questions/ fears triggered by various factors such as uncertainties, health upsets, external situations or challenges. Recently we had this amazing period of 10-12 days at Aarohi Campus where out of 6 people four were partially/ fully sick and two…
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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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Homeschooling journey – by Sharmila
Being part of a journey is more important than destination. If journey is joyous and satisfactory with all its ups and down , the destination may not be very different from it.
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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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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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Facilitation by observing
Observation is one of the most powerful tool to learn and to facilitate. As an observer are you a CCTV camera or a cameraman who instructs you what and how to do.
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Kids follow parents?
Parents are not the only influencers in child’s life. They are a part of child’s surroundings. Shall we pay attention to “Will child follow me” or shall we facilitate an environment of exploration.
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The Myth of (bad) Habits
Each habit serve some purpose. Good or bad habits are relative perceptions. More often parents and children lock horn on habits because of this relative perception. Let’s question some of our beliefs around bad habit and burst the myth around bad habits.