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20 Clever Inventions You Probably Didn't Know Were Made By Indians. Indian inventions and discoveries have been instrumental in shaping the face of the current modern world. We picked up 20 such interesting findings out of a whole bunch that will make you go, “I didn’t know that”. 1. Buttons image sources 1, 2 Buttons were first used in Mohenjo-daro for ornamental purpose rather than for fastening. 2. Image sources 1, 2 Chess developed out of Chaturanga, which is an ancient strategy board game developed during the Gupta Empire in India around the 6th century AD. 3. In 16th century Mughal India, during the reign of Akbar, the first prefabricated & movable structures were invented. 4. Rulers were first used by the Indus Valley Civilization prior to 1500 BCE. 5. The word ‘Shampoo’ is derived from chāmpo (चाँपो). 6.

The game, Snakes & Ladders, was invented in India as a game of morals. 7. The ancient Greeks used to wear animal skins and were not even aware of cotton. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Flush toilets were first used in the Indus Valley Civilization. Visual Journeys. Public Service Center. Public Service Center. When good people do bad things. When people get together in groups, unusual things can happen — both good and bad. Groups create important social institutions that an individual could not achieve alone, but there can be a darker side to such alliances: Belonging to a group makes people more likely to harm others outside the group.

“Although humans exhibit strong preferences for equity and moral prohibitions against harm in many contexts, people’s priorities change when there is an ‘us’ and a ‘them,’” says Rebecca Saxe, an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT. “A group of people will often engage in actions that are contrary to the private moral standards of each individual in that group, sweeping otherwise decent individuals into ‘mobs’ that commit looting, vandalism, even physical brutality.” Several factors play into this transformation. In a study that recently went online in the journal NeuroImage, the researchers measured brain activity in a part of the brain involved in thinking about oneself. Nature by Numbers - a short film on the elegance of mathematics - Aeon. Education agenda for Narendra Modi. The tactical and strategic brilliance of the campaign that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ran is visible in the election results.

This also suggests that the BJP government is likely to start off on the task of governance with very clear ideas and in all likelihood with some specific plans. Nevertheless, let me suggest an agenda for school education in the form of three points on the approach and six specific agenda items. This is clearly not an exhaustive list of what is needed. First, the approach should be to plan for a minimum of 10 years. All visible indications are that this government is indeed thinking already about the second term, so this should come naturally. Second, the approach must recognize that the best of policies and intentions have not found faithful implementation on the ground, over the past few decades.

Third, there must be a deep acceptance that school education is primarily the domain of the states. Now, the six specific agenda items. Hubs & Spokes. DSH is not a physically centralized system. Instead, DSH is designed to work as a decentralized network of hubs and spokes. Each hub is a center of education excellence and the hubs themselves "talk" to each other. The spokes are typically the poor rural and urban slum schools that need help the most, schools that lack good teachers, good content, and other resources. Each hub works on content production (typically in a local language), content dissemination in its neighborhood, teacher training, monitoring, and evaluation, and interacting and sharing with other hubs.

One of the most important roles played by a hub is to ensure that the content generated at the hub is appropriate for the target audience of the underprivileged children to be served by the hub. We cannot simply record lessons in middleclass schools and hope the resulting content can be meaningful for a rural audience. To the first order of approximation, we at DSH see ourselves as "plumbers.

" Her goal is to impart holistic education to the poor and advocate gender studies for both girls and boys | Innovation | Posted 26-Jan-2013 Vol 4 Issue 4 Educationist Urvashi Sahni uses an innovative and cost-effective technique to impart quality education to underprivileged school kids. Through a project called ‘Digital Study Hall’ (DSH), the Lucknow based pedagogue has shot over 2000 videos of classroom lectures of some of the best teachers from ‘middle-class’ schools in cities, which have been used to teach students in rural areas and urban slums.

The project that was launched in 2005 has benefitted over 6000 students studying mostly in government schools located in parts of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Punjab. Many of these are single-teacher schools, where the teachers lack the skill and training to impart quality education to students. DSH makes the content in local language according to respective state curricula from urban hubs like Lucknow and Pune. The ‘spoke schools’ just need a DVD player and a TV set to be part of the project. For Urvashi, the future path is clear.

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Digestive System 3. Learning to Open Our Minds. Learning to Open Our Minds An interview with Kartikeya Sarabhai Kartikeya Sarabhai is the founder and director of the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in Ahmedabad, India. CEE has 40 offices across India, and also works in Australia, Germany and Sri Lanka. He established VIKSAT, an NGO promoting people's participation in natural resource management, and Sundarvan, a nature discovery center. He is a trustee of the Preservation and Memorial Trust of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad where Gandhi lived for many years, and is also a member of the Earth Charter International Council. Youth who live in a regularly flooded area of Bangladesh participate in a monthly disaster management project meeting [G.M.B. SGI Quarterly: What are your hopes for the Rio+20 meeting? Kartikeya Sarabhai: At Rio 2012, it would be good to see education for sustainable development move to center stage as the best long-term method of achieving sustainable development.

KS: Yes. More and more is happening. About Obami - About Obami. Quantum Era Hindi Version Version. Home. Small steps to a bigger yield. MUNICIPAL SCHOOL CHENNAI - A SILENT REVOLUTION - ENGLISH - 400MB.avi. Test your geography knowledge - India states | Lizard Point. Ignite NIF. What is the IGNITE contest? IGNITE is an annual national competition to harness the creative and innovative spirit of school children.

Students are invited to send their original creative technological ideas and innovations for the same. Why the IGNITE contest? Creativity among children is almost in-born, every child is creative, degrees may vary, but not the basic manifestation. Then what happens during the growth and maturation? Why should children stop asking basic questions? Why do they agree to do repetitive science projects instead of being original? Know More About IGNITE. RateYourProf.co.IN - Indian Professor Ratings Online.

Rate, Review Teachers, Professors India | MyFaveTeacher.com - Rate, Review Teachers, Professors India. Universities India>Top Universities in India>Best Universities India>List Of Universities. Lecture 2: Teaching Equations | Video Discussions | Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering | Chemistry. Www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/eosc256/Mar_11_2011_friction.pdf. IITians throw a ladder to underprivileged kids to help them come up in life | Causes | Posted 11-Jan-2014 Vol 5 Issue 2 For more than a decade now, students and faculty members of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, have been making a positive difference in the lives of the less fortunate people in their vicinity.

Their service of free tuition in English, Science, and Mathematics for children studying in classes 4 to12 has benefitted over 500 poor families residing in a 3 km radius of the institution. Every evening after school – there are no classes on Sundays - the children gather at the IIT campus and learn from some of the brilliant minds in the country. It is a project of ‘Shiksha Sopan’ - which literally means ‘education to be used as a ladder’ - an organization started by few IIT-K professors and students. “It is a good platform for our students to spend time with real society,” says H C Verma, current President of Shiksha Sopan. Some professors including Verma, Avinash Agarwal, Kunal Ghosh later formed the Shiksha Sopan.

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Physics 2 at IBB. Innovation in Education. Introduction Education is the crucible in which Innovations are forged. Promoting creativity and incentivizing innovations through our educational institutions is a first step towards broadening and deepening the impact of innovations in our society and economy. In large scale education systems such as ours, catering to a vast population with relatively limited resources, this is a major challenge. At the same time, with rapid advances in new technologies, changing needs of the economy, and the very presence of the challenges identified above, the sector itself presents a fertile ground for pioneering innovations. (a) Creation of a separate scholarship stream of National Innovation Scholarships analogous to the National Talent Search Scheme. This will help identify talented children at the school level who think creatively, laterally and innovatively on issues that they perceive as important in their local environment.

The Sow It Forward Garden Grants Program. Our application process for 2014 grants is now closed but we are accepting applications throughout 2014 for our 2015 grant cycle. The application deadline for our 2015 grant cycle is 5pm Eastern Time, Friday January 9, 2015. Sow It Forward is the grants and partnership program of Kitchen Gardeners International. The grant is for nonprofit causes or organizations (schools, 501c3s, food banks, community gardens, colleges, libraries, prisons, senior programs, etc.) interested in starting or expanding food garden projects that are of general benefit to their community. Past grantees include school gardens, community gardens, food bank gardens, library gardens, senior gardens, prison gardens and homeless shelter gardens among others.

For our 2014 round of giving, we offered 100 full grants and roughly 60 partial grants. The partial grant had a value of $325 and consisted of a $300 cash grant and $25 one-year subscription to our online garden planner. | Ganesh mandir vishrantwadi in Pune Search results for Ganesh Mandir Vishrantwadi in Pune | WoNoBo.com. Translations - Khan Academy Docs. Math Training Initiative. Innovative Math Training Initiative Ground breaking Math initiative educating underprivileged children in slum and village communities via The Khan Academy teaching modules! Research shows that math learning is a vital component in children’s long-term educational development and ability to get a self-sustaining job after school.

A proper math education in India enables a child to be streamlined into a normative high school and ultimately into the mainstream workforce. Unfortunately, access to the good math training is rare in India and teaching math in the slums and remote villages is difficult for many logistic reasons. But Gabriel Project Mumbai and REAP have a solution: The Khan Academy. The Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org), an innovative e-learning solution sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Google Company, provides accessible math modules on the internet in order to enable an child anywhere to obtain a free world-class education. Google in Education. Shivaji mane avi 21 05 2012. Science Education. MML/PHOTOSYNTHESIS/files/BubbleLab.swf. Central Square Foundation | High quality school education for all children in India.

Compassionate Citizen. Next Generation Science Standards. The Next Generation Science Standards. For Education. Schools and universities around the world are embracing audioBoom as the easiest, most effective way to give teachers and students a voice. Audio enriches the curriculum, engages the learner, and creates conversations that build community.

Take a look at some amazing ways that audioBoom is reinventing the classroom experience. Give Your Students A Voice Your students have a lot to say! Capture their thoughts by giving them access to audioBoom - the easiest, simplest way to let your students express themselves and share their voices with you, their peers and their families. Download our free app today and sign up today for free accounts - and let your students speak! Listen to Brody proudly read the book he authored. The students at Michael Faraday School are using audioBoom to recreate history in their own voices. Mr. Student Voice Live is an initiative that strives to to create a international network of students who are empowered to tell share their stories. Universities join hands to reach out to rural youth. The Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) at Thiruvarur and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) have tied up to offer agriculture-related short-term courses to farmers, who have not finished school, to give them an opportunity to equip themselves with the latest in farm technology.

These courses will be offered in the community college mode at the CUTN. A memorandum to this effect was inked by B.P. Sanjay, Vice-Chancellor of CUTN, and K. Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor of TNAU, recently in Coimbatore. To begin with, two courses – one in soil management and the other in water management– will be offered at nominal costs. The courses will be conducted for six months each. Talking to The Hindu over phone, Mr. “This is a way for universities to reach out to rural youth and those who have not completed formal education. The university is expecting to admit some 30 students in each batch, depending on the demand. Arvind Gupta's interview in Citadel. Education - news articles, reports, opinions and analysis - Homepage. The Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh. (This section was last updated in February 2014). SECMOL welcomes volunteers, their work and the inter-cultural exchange and understanding they bring.

Conversation class If you are interested in volunteering for SECMOL, contact the volunteer coordinator, at this email address. Email is unreliable in Ladakh so it can take 1-2 weeks to get a reply from us. Phones are unreliable but sometimes work. Volunteers should stay for a minimum of three weeks at SECMOL. Due to visiting groups, we will not need any more general volunteers from 10 May through mid-August, 2014. The biggest need is in December and February for our youth camps, where no special skills are needed, and since it is not tourist season we often get fewer volunteers than we want at that time. Rough volunteering calendar for 2014 April-May-June 2014: Several volunteers with teaching experience or training are already expected, so we won't need many other general volunteers.

Sept - Dec 2014: General friendly volunteers welcome again. Physical Sciences & Engineering. Apply for an InvenTeam Grant. ASER Centre. TEDxDirigo - Eli Stefanski - Making Systems Thinking Sexy. Pamphlets, Fliers and Posters on Recycling, Waste Segregation - SWaCH. महिलाओं को इंटरनेट पर लाने में सहायता The Science of How Music Enchants the Brain, Animated. Lessons in Well Drilling Spill into the Classroom. A project to bring clean water to residents of Namawanga, Kenya, serves as an example in lesson plans for middle-school students. Update Nov. 12, 2012: Curricula videos now on YouTube, see belowSince 2006, student engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have teamed with residents of Namawanga, Kenya, to clean the town's drinking water – and teach U.S. students in more than 100 middle and high schools math, science, and social studies.

Pastures flank the town's streams and tests detected e.coli in the water. To solve the problem, the residents and students in Engineers Without Borders at UMass are drilling a well and building spring boxes around the water source to protect it from contamination. At the same time, the UMass project is meshed with a multi-disciplinary curriculum for middle and high schools. The students learn about waterborne disease and well drilling, but they also discover that lasting solutions are more than just technical. They get their hands dirty, too. Indian schools adopt tablets. Will they improve education?

InvenTeam High School Grants: Contact. Innovation in Education. Report. Www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/episteme/episteme-2/e-proceedings/carignan. Www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/advt/one-position-for-project-fellow-nius-physics. History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science and Science Education: Issues at the Interface. Education and Appropriate Technology. VidyaHelpLine - Home. 81 Ways Humanitarian Aid has Become Participatory. Education. Www.movingacademy.org/pdf/Little_Scientists_2013_Announcement_7-3-13.pdf. Www.povertyactionlab.org/publication/what-helps-children-learn-evaluation-prathams-read-india-program. » The tricky ethics of education information, J-Pal edition. Removing Higher Education Barriers of Entry: Test Training and Classroom Peer Effects.

Teacher and Student Motivation, Family Participation, and Student Achievement in Rural Udaipur, India. Read India: Helping Primary School Students in India Acquire Basic Reading and Math Skills. 9 Maps to Change How You See the World. Resources. Nurturing a society of tree-lovers in an unassuming but definite way | Heroism | Coimbatore. Bhutan: Children Learn To Grow Nutritious Food At School. Problem of gender differences on physics assessments remains unsolved. Formative vs Summative Assessment - Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation.

"Integrated Trans-disciplinary Inquiry Abilities through Education" by KP Mohanan. Pratham. NCBS talk 1 - Dr Shashidhara from IISER. For Teachers.

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