Funding for Civil Society, Effective Collaborations for Social Impact, and the Government’s Role in Development: Ei Dialogues with Rathish Balakrishnan
Background Before you start reading this article, I would like you to perform a simple task. Ready? Think of a chapter that you want to teach students. Can you list down everything that you would do as part of your chapter planning process? Take a few minutes to do this. Once you are done, continue…
This is the first of a three-part series documenting Ei’s attempts to help students use its Personalised Adaptive Learning software, Mindspark, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article focusses on the process of reaching students at home, while the second article will showcase key insights from Mindspark usage data, and the third will highlight learnings from…
This is the second of a three-part series documenting Ei’s attempts to help students use its Personalised Adaptive Learning software, Mindspark, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first part focused on the process of reaching students at home, and the third will highlight key learnings from this process. This article showcases key insights from Mindspark usage…
This is the third of a three-part series documenting Ei’s attempts to help students use its Personalised Adaptive Learning software, Mindspark, during the Covid-19 pandemic. This article highlights learnings from Ei’s experience in implementing EdTech at home in this period. The first article documented the process of reaching students on the ground, while the second…
This interview was originally published by the Central Square Foundation (CSF) in November, 2021. ___ The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 lays down an important goal: improve learning outcomes; shift from rote-based learning to conceptual understanding and application of knowledge. It advocates for competency-based assessments at all levels to achieve that goal by way of…
What does the student response data of the following question in Ei ASSET[1] say? What are the errors committed by students? 2u – 9 = 12 – u. What is u? Students make different types of errors in carrying out a procedure other than computational errors while solving some of the Mathematics problems as evident…
Last week while scrolling through my social media, I came across this post that had garnered thousands of likes and comments! It clearly resonated with a large group of people and brought out a common distrust towards learning Mathematics compulsorily at school. The post made me realize that an entire generation of learners has grown…
Do you notice students struggling with geometric proofs and theorems in higher grades and many of them rote learn these proofs and reproduce them in the exam without having a proper understanding of the same? In the class 9 and 10 Mathematics curricula, around 25 – 30% of the course structure and the assessment blueprints…
Creating Effective Edtech For India: Ei Dialogues With Vineet Nayar