Tag: Best Practices

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foundations of Learning

By Charanya KumarEducation ChallengesALL Posts, Best Practices, Education Challenges, Education for Future, Experiential Learning, Learning and me, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-010

We now have a generation that reads headlines and jumps to incomplete judgments about the news, … 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, not m… MORE

Ambiguity begets Clarity

By Charanya KumarEducation for FutureALL Posts, Best Practices, Character, Co-create, Experiential Learning, Holistic Education, Pedagogy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-009

The students grow up to become young adults who are comfortable in predictable situations, but … MORE

DIY Learning

By Ajit Ashutosh KalleEducation for FutureALL Posts, Best Practices, Co-create, Creativity, Curriculum, Education Challenges, Pedagogy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-008

“The ‘A for Apple’ framework in which our education system is entrenched in (even in high… MORE

EdTech – Solution or the Problem?

By Charanya KumarEducation ChallengesALL Posts, Best Practices, Education for Future, Education Technology, Learning and me, Pedagogy, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-007, Teachers

With increasing use of technology, are we killing our children’s ability to imagine and come up … MORE

Learnings from a dictionary

By Dr. Vasudevan NamboodiriEducation for FutureALL Posts, Best Practices, Education for Future, Education Technology, Experiential Learning, History of Ideas, Holistic Education, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-005, Teaching and Me

Many things we learn may not be relevant by the time we gain mastery over them. However lea

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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 cond

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Did you say Education..?

By Silver PiEducationALL Posts, Best Practices, Education Challenges, Education for Future, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-001

For a society, education is the means of initiating its young into adulthood. This involves pre… MORE

Teachers and the Pandemic

By Susheela MenonTeachersALL Posts, Best Practices, Education Challenges, SilverPi-DYSE-Issue-001, Teaching and Me

No educational system can stand without its teachers — be it the group that goes door to door teac… 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 pande… MORE

About Author

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.

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