It has been less than two decades since social media announced its appearance on the world stage. Within such a brief span of time, it has penetrated into most aspects of our life. How many of us are not on social media today? Both Facebook and YouTube have more than 2 billion active users across the globe. WhatsApp has around 1.5 billion. Is this good? Or is this mass following a threat?
Category: Learning
Online education – the solution to the COVID-19 educational disruption!
Have you felt that your life has been restricted over the past few weeks or months? All over the world, people have been overwhelmed by the Coronavirus pandemic. At least 166 countries have been affected by the virus [as of 20 March 2020, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)]. The effects are visible across different sectors. Borders have been closed, travel restrictions have been put in place and economic activities have been hit hard.
How do you know what your children are learning at their tuition centres?
What do you do when your child finds it hard to learn some subject or subjects? It is quite common to find school-based learning inadequate for your children as they may fall behind in specific subjects and require a bit of special care in the same. As the responsible parent, we are, we take notice of this and get our students enrolled for tuition.
How to choose a good tutor for your child?
Have you ever faced any difficulty while picking a tutor? Every parent who searches for someone to tutor her child wants to find the best person for the job. But to do this one has to make a lot of considerations. Many tend to get confused about this. Let us walk you through some of the basics to keep in mind while picking a tutor for your child.
How to find out your child’s learning style?
No two people are alike, are they? There are differences between people in the way that they do things. This is true across age groups. When it comes to the act of learning as well, we find a number of differences in style. Do we as parents these days give a thought to this?
How do we maximise learning from videos?
Do you think that your parents would have ever imagined that their school-going grandkids would be learning with the help of videos? Such has been the changes that we have witnessed in the past few decades. We all remember being chided by our parents for spending too much time on the TV or computer.
Let’s Learn Online!
Learning is an experience. Only when the experience is good, the end result will be noteworthy. To put it in simpler words, learning needs to be made more engaging for children. Only when subjects are taught in an engaging manner, students will be able to enjoy the learning experience and thus get a stronger hold over subject topics. So how do you make learning more engaging?
Need to improve Understanding? Let’s Build Practical Knowledge!
Practical skills are in high demand in the 21st-century workforce. In addition to this, these skills also help students to understand things in a better manner as well. Aren’t these reasons enough to set about building measures that can enhance one’s practical knowledge?
Can videos enhance the learning experience?
We have textbooks to learn, don’t we? Then why do we go to the classroom even at the university level? The thing is that while we are capable of reading texts and learning on our own, all this requires a lot more effort and drains more time. But there is a problem in the classroom mode of learning as well.
Let’s learn from our Mistakes!
Whatever might be the reason, it is your job as a parent to figure it out. Get to the root of it and help your kid overcome the inhibitions to own up to his mistakes. This can start by letting your kid understand that mistakes are natural and that whatever the case may be, trying to disown one’s own actions is just an act of cowardice.
