Silver Pi Blog – Did you say Education..?

Did you say Education...?

The trouble with tricks

By Sankar MMathematicsALL Posts, Best Practices, Mathematics, New Posts, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-018, Teaching and Me

“These tricks mystify numbers and other ideas of Mathematics – while the goal of l… MORE

Clamping down on Tuition

By Nicholas AlchinEducation and SocietyALL Posts, Education Challenges, Equitable Education, New Posts, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-018

Private tuition industry has always been the giant elephant in the education living room. Desp… MORE

Rethinking schools

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Best Practices, Education for Future, Experiential Learning, Multidisciplinary, New Posts, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-018

To say that Education is complex topic is an absolute understatement. There is no dearth of idea… MORE

Tadashi’s Toys

By Sankar MMathematicsALL Posts, Demystifying, Mathematics, New Posts, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-017, Teachers

“I’m not interested in games whose rules were set down by humans. I’m only interested in g… MORE

Did you say Transferrable Skills?

By Nicholas AlchinBest PracticesALL Posts, Holistic Education, New Posts, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-017, Skills for Future

Transferrable skills are considered to be the holy grail of progressive education. But are all … MORE

3D-Printed Schools – a World Economic Forum article

By Silver PiEducation InfrastructureALL Posts, Education and Society, Education for Future, Education Infrastructure, Equitable Education, New Posts, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-017, Technology

A large part of the cost of education in the developing world is due to the physical infrastructu… MORE

Innovation in Education..?

By Nicholas AlchinEducation for FutureALL Posts, Education Challenges, Education for Future, Education Technology, Holistic Education, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-016

In the modern world, continuous innovation and reinvention have become the way of life for any f… MORE

An Ode to Celluloid

By Arya KSTeaching and LearningALL Posts, Learning and me, Learning Content, Learning Languages, Lifelong Learning, Movies, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-016

Movie is arguably the most influential and universal form of entertainment for the past centur… MORE

Science and Poetry

By Sankar MNews and ReportsALL Posts, Creativity, Holistic Education, Multidisciplinary, Poetry, Science, Scientific Language, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-016

Four scientists from the Imperial College, London paired up with four poets to explore a differ… MORE

Why can’t you just make it simple?

By Nicholas AlchinBest PracticesALL Posts, Assessments, Best Practices, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-015, Teaching and Me

Teaching and learning are arguably two of the most intriguing human activities. In this articl… MORE

Why the current education system is failing India’s youth?

By Aanya Michael ManjakunnelEducation ChallengesALL Posts, Education Challenges, Education for Future, Equitable Education, India, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-015

A lot has been written on the educational situation of India. Aanya, through a student’s … MORE

Content Drift in an Ephemeral Web – A Harvard Law School study

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Education for Future, Education Technology, Learning Content, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-015

A team of researchers at Harvard Law School undertook a research project to gain insight into th… MORE

‘Technically’ speaking: Are we opening the Pandora’s Box?

By Madhava C KurupEducational PolicyALL Posts, Educational Policy, Engineering, India, Language, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-014

Madhava Kurup thinks through the proposal to introduce higher education in regional language… MORE

The Art and Science of ‘Drawing the Line’

By Sankar MHolistic EducationALL Posts, Character, Demystifying, Education for Future, Engineering, Holistic Education, India, Self Awareness, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-014

The attributes embodied by the Scientist (power of abstraction, pattern recognition) and the … MORE

Data Skills Gap – a UK Gov Report

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Data Science, Education for Future, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-014, Skills for Future, Technology Skills, Vocational Education

United Kingdom Government has recently conducted a detailed research on the present and proje… MORE

The Littoral Zones of Learning

By Ian TymmsTeaching and LearningALL Posts, Best Practices, Co-create, Education for Future, Experiential Learning, Pedagogy, Self Awareness, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-013, Student Agency, Teaching and Me

Learning is a remarkably subtle, intricate and an intriguing process. For someone who is excep… MORE

I want to break free!

By Ajit Ashutosh KalleEducation ChallengesALL Posts, Education Challenges, Engineering, India, IoT, Multidisciplinary, Science, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-013

In this increasingly trans-disciplinary world, the traditional ways of working within water… MORE

Virtual Reality in Education – a World Bank Report

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Education Technology, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-013, Virtual Reality

World Bank has recently published a detailed paper, analyzing the results of available studie… MORE

Buguri – a learning space for marginalized children

By Susheela MenonEducation and SocietyALL Posts, Best Practices, Community, Equitable Education, India, Literacy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-012

On behalf of Silver Pi, Susheela Menon talks to Lakshmi Karunakaran, who heads the Bugur… MORE

Forget Google; sometimes you’ve just got to know a lot of stuff

By Nicholas AlchinEducation for FutureALL Posts, Best Practices, Classroom Voices, Education for Future, Knowledge, Pedagogy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-012

The debate between knowing facts vs knowing how to get to the facts is a hallmark of the discussio… MORE

Virtual Schooling – taking stock

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Best Practices, Community, Education Challenges, Education Research, Educational Policy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-012, virtual Learning

National Education Policy Center, a nonprofit education policy research center located at th… MORE

On the trail of light

By Sankar MScienceALL Posts, Demystifying, History of Ideas, Physics, Science, Scientific Approach, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-011

Scientists’ approach is to make observations about the various phenomena in nature. Then they … MORE

Books that matter – Creating the Schools Our Children Need

By Ian TymmsBooks that matterALL Posts, Assessments, Best Practices, Pedagogy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-011, Teachers, Teaching and Me

“The overarching theme that came out of the first two thirds of the book was a reminder tha… MORE

Twenty years of MIT Open CourseWare

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Best Practices, Curriculum, Education for Future, Education Technology, Equitable Education, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-011

One thing that can be pointed out about MIT’s move twenty years ago, was the categorical w… MORE