Giving School Education in India a Digital Future

adminBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare Our honorable Prime Minister Shree Narendra Modi has set forth the vision for Digital India. This vision w.r.t. education has a mission where we need to work towards the dream of a Digital India by 2020 where: High speed Digital Highways will represent One India and will connect 1.2 billion Indians High speed Digital Highways will …

GEMS – An Apt Choice for School ERP on SaaS

adminBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare A SaaS (Software as a Service) ERP is the latest effort in the ERP industry to provide a rapid, cost-effective solution for customers who want an enterprise solution. A SaaS deployment model provides the potential for greater value realization through the type of solutions that the customer implements. I firmly believe that one of …

Shikshan Saarthi – An effort towards designing for efficient learning

adminBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare In e-learning, visualizing and arranging content impacts directly on the quality of teaching and learning. ‘The way in which content is presented’ paves the very path to ‘efficient perceptive visual-learning’, – Olimpius Istrate The main objective to be kept in mind when designing for e-learning is to support the comfort and confidence of the …

Why are visuals important in e-learning?

adminBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare The era of visual importance is thriving. The present is where visual content plays a role in every part of life. Researchers say that 65 percent of the population are visual learners and therefore the images are clearly the key to engaging people in eLearning. The technology advancement has created a niche where …

Improving growth mindsets among students and teachers

adminBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare A thought that is beginning to gain a lot of favour in educational circles at the moment is how students mindset is connected to their learning and growth and how much teachers play a role in supporting it. According to Dweck, the New Psychology of Success (2000), for some people, success (and failure) …

Educational apps as the best tool to hands-on and high quality learning

Grishma RajBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare Improving education is a huge issue (and always has been). Technology is the decisive carrot for students. It’s something they want to master. But people are prone to feel that usage of technology spoils their kids. This is wrong and it should be altered. Learning to use technology enhances their self-esteem and …

School Management software and its importance

Grishma RajBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare Most parents before enrolling their kids to a school deeply inquire and research about its repute. There are many factors that cater to the good name but relevant among them is definitely “Ideal Management”. An effective and adequate management helps every school earn the desired goodwill and efficiency. Hence, schools need to …

Why inquiry – based learning important?

Grishma RajBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare Inquiry-based learning is more than asking a student what he or she wants to know. It’s about enhancing curiosity. And activating a student’s curiosity is, I would argue, a far more important and complex goal than the objective of mere information delivery. It is something that teaches a student to think. Triggering inquiry …

Assessment – the right way to measure a student’s learning.

Grishma RajBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare Assessment is a vital part of education. Teachers and parents use test scores to treat a student’s academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their educational system. Embracing technology and apps for assessment: We know that the typical multiple-choice and short-answer tests aren’t the only …

Teachers should help students find their own path

Grishma RajBlog0 CommentsFacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare Words such as “learning”, “lifelong learning”, and “learning for life” do not exactly spark ideas of excitement for many people . But one important thing that differentiates us as human beings, and enables us as the most advanced species, is our profound ability to learn And as teachers one cannot make students …