I don’t think I have done this much of talking, in a while. It was great and I loved every bit of it. I gave ten Talks in about twelve days (weekends included) in three different states. It is kind of cool. In the end, I learned a lot and had many great interactions. I… [Read more…]
February 18, 2009
Consider this the equivalent of Retweet. All I want to do is to point to some post and say I love it and point to others who read my blog and suggest, may be you should read it too. I love it because I do have similar Harmonic Convergences too and jot some ideas down… [Read more…]
February 14, 2009
Involving Students as Teachers can be an effective means of improving learning. You learn a lot more by teaching. This is being practiced in several places including the MIT TEAL program. This blog entry that led me to Edutopia has a different, rather innovative idea. Why not use the creative, imaginative power of students to… [Read more…]
January 20, 2009
This is an amazing video, a well articulated, very different view of learning. Here are some snippets: Web is a hyper-personalized, hyper-individualized medium for learning content We still need schools, since they provide the community that inspires people to participate in learning together How can we get the students intelligence involved in learning? Inspiring good… [Read more…]
January 15, 2009
If you recall, web was born as a way to help scientists share documents. Solving real problems, some times can start revolutions. One interesting revolution may be programming for the non-programmer. If you think of programming as just a way to solve interesting problems in a flexible way, then we need a different approach to… [Read more…]
December 13, 2008
I have been experimenting with blended learning since early 2008. The first experiment was with a batch of interns and the second is a batch of final year students in a software institute. Both the batches are trained using Problem Based Learning techniques. My inspiration comes from our original idea of setting up a Software… [Read more…]
April 2, 2008
I had a chance to address a group of software developers recently. I had about ten minutes to describe one of our recent research labs – the broad goals and a road map. It was fun. More fun was the question, I was asked, in the end. What would you have done if there are… [Read more…]
March 14, 2009
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