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The word, ‘coherence’ is defined in two ways: one, ‘the quality of being logically consistent’ while the other refers to the ‘quality of forming a unified structure’. In other words, ‘coherence’ is the situation when the parts of something fit together in a natural or logical way with a clear relationship between parts, especially in […]
Since the beginning of the new millennium we have been witnessing a dramatic growth in the number of students taking online tutoring and therefore using technology as a tool to enhance their learning. They can now master a foreign language or complete a whole subject of study without leaving the comfort of their study room […]
Tom, a student in the primary class, is very reluctant to eat anything other than chocolates or candies. Feeding him has become a tiresome task for his parents. One day, after spending almost half an hour to make him eat a dish of vegetables, his mother told him. “If you eat your vegetables you can […]
“Judge: The charge here is the theft of frozen chickens. Are you the defendant? Defendant: No, sir, I’m the guy who stole the chickens.” This is a quote taken directly from actual court records. The accused did not understand the jargon, ‘defendant’, used by the judge. This is an example of taking your audience to […]
In the debates on measuring student learning outcomes, we often hear critics repeatedly say “you can’t fatten a cow by weighing him all the time,” It simply means you cannot truly educate students by spending all the time preparing them for testing. But, Peter Drucker, one of the most widely known thinkers on management, famously […]
“Oh! Only 30 more seconds left. Do you have any doubts?” Tutor asked. The student was about to say something and the class ended all of a sudden. This is something that happens in some of our classes. Such a situation will bring a chaotic end to the class. Here the tutor is not capitalizing […]
We are heading fast towards a world of mobile supercomputers, intelligent robots, driver-less cars, Neuro-technological brain enhancements, genome editing…..and many more. Signals of these changes are found all around us and it is happening at exponential speed. We are at the threshold of a revolution that is fundamentally changing the way we live, work and […]
Have you ever been to a lecture-style class where you listened to the information provided by the teacher but found it difficult to learn it? Perhaps there were too many facts to absorb or you were simply bored by it and not motivated to learn. What if instead you were in a class where you […]
Spatial intelligence or spatial reasoning is the ability to imagine or visualize in our mind the positions of objects, their shapes, their spatial relations to one another and the movement they make to form new spatial relations. This is one of the nine intelligences in the Theory of Multiple Intelligences proposed by American psychologist Howard […]
One day, Edward Murphy, an engineer working on a project at Edwards Air Force Base, found that one of his junior technicians made a technical error and made a sarcastic comment, “If there is any way to do it wrong, he will find it.” Another engineer, Dr. John Paul Stapp, who was also involved with […]