Category: News and Reports

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 id… 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 diff… 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 … 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 pro… 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 stud… 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 … 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 … MORE

The Yo-Yo Class at MIT

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Best Practices, Creativity, Curriculum, Education for Future, Experiential Learning, Holistic Education, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-010, Vocational Education

At times, we may need to take a pause and let the students see the big picture and the context, no… MORE

The Ramanujan Machine

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Demystifying, India, Mathematics, Number Theory, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-009

A group of researchers from Israel have come up with a mechanism to generate new conjectures, w… MORE

Mathematical Redemption

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Learning and me, Lifelong Learning, Mathematics, Number Theory, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-008

Math could seem to be the most bizarre field for someone like Havens to use as a get-away from th… MORE

Leveraging a crisis – a think tank report on Education

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Community, Education Challenges, Equitable Education, Experiential Learning, Holistic Education, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-007

“Crises like the current pandemic serve as ‘stress test’ for our system… MORE

Decoding Jugaad? – A research at MIT on innovative tool usage by humans

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Creativity, Education Research, Education Technology, Innovation, Pedagogy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-006

“It would also be interesting to consider the possibility of directly leveraging the… MORE

Vocational Education First – UNESCO State of the Education Report for India 2020

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Education for Future, India, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-005, Vocational Education

UNESCO has recently conducted a comprehensive study of the Technical and Vocational Educat

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Gestures and Pictures in Language Learning

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Best Practices, Learning Languages, Pedagogy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-004

A recent paper published by the Springer Education Psychology Review illustrates a study con

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The Future of Jobs

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Education for Future, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-003

Based on the report, there is a huge and accelerating gap in skills and competencies like Criti

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Global Teacher Prize 2020 – Ranjitsinh Disale

By Silver PiNews and ReportsALL Posts, Education Challenges, Education for Future, Education Technology, Equitable Education, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-002, Teachers

Ranjitsinh Disale, a primary school teacher from Maharashtra, India, has won the prestigiou… MORE

Learning in the time of Corona

By Sankar MNews and ReportsALL Posts, Best Practices, Education Challenges, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-001

Talking about any topic today has to start with the elephant in the room – Covid. The pand… MORE

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Sankar M

Sankar is the founder and CEO of Silver Pi.
He had worked in Banking and Technology for about three decades before switching to Education. He is an Electrical Engineer by training, with a career in Technology and Banking across Japan, USA, Singapore and India.

Sankar’s interests include Holistic Learning, Technology-enabled learning, Mathematics, Science and Scientific approach, Financial Literacy, Poetry, Cultural travel, Folklore & Folklife, Japanese language & culture etc.