Global Dignity Day celebrated 2013

Global Dignity Day Celebrated

There is no one “right” way to celebrate Global Dignity Day – every country, every school, and every classroom may have a unique way to discuss dignity.
In a day and age where there is so much conflict in the world (between cultures, religions, generations, socioeconomic classes, and more) there is a great need for broad agreement on something unifying, something that encourages and even grows a sense of community. That something is dignity.
Global Dignity Day 2013 builds upon the great success of last year’s event during which 300.000 young people participated across 50 countries. Young Global Leaders and other volunteers organized events in an effort to instill and inspire a new, more positive, inclusive and interconnected value proposition in students for their lives as they grow into adulthood.

Our class participants celebrated Global Dignity Day by watching a video clip related to dignity followed by an interview the children prepared from one of our helpers at school Mr.Jimmy.
later,the children prepared posters,thankyou cards and pledges for the dignity day'13.

English online story creating ICT integrated activity

Everyday, computers become a more important factor in today’s society. We are confronted with computers both during working ours and in our private life. The same applies for communication: Nowadays, we have much more possibilities to communicate with other people. Mobile phones, e-mail, SMS messages and chat-boxes are a few examples of the new possibilities. All these new communication means have their own specific way of using them, their own (dis)advantages and their own specific group of users.

The upcoming of ICT technologies has its implications on school and education. It is not possible to ignore computers anymore. Education is faced with the challenge to incorporate computers and communication possibilities in a meaningful way. But this challenge has a reason: When used in proper ways, ICT can improve education in many way Children have to learn about computers. But other subjects can be taught with computers. The use of computers in education can be more efficient, it can provide better learning results and it can be made adaptive to the individual learner. But also important is the fact that it can be fun to learn with computers. Furthermore, skills like collaboration, critical evaluation, receiving feedback, planning and organisation can be learned.

Recent past week,the pupils of my class III-F worked on a BBC starship story writing online activity in groups.The pupils enjoyed every part of it and created interesting stories in groups while taking turns.

 

Hands-On is Minds-On

Hands-on learning, more formally known as Experiential Education, reflects a teaching philosophy that promotes learning by doing. The strategy allows children to practice guided tactile learning in which they absorb knowledge not only by listening, but by experiencing. Experiential learning is praised as a top teaching method by higher educational institutions, especially those in the fields of science, art and technology. This strategy also offers numerous advantages to students in elementary classrooms.
 Hearing a lecture or even watching a teacher perform a physical demonstration of a concept, cannot instill a passion for knowledge in a student as deeply as hands-on experience can. Learning by doing allows children to become personally invested in their own learning process. Becoming actively engaged in their education builds confidence, as the lessons require students to rely on their own abilities to obtain knowledge. That confidence and self-reliance inspires children to embrace the learning process and enthusiastically seek out additional knowledge.
Developer Thoughts

• I hear and I forget
  I see and I remember
  I do and I understand
• Last month my new class students of III-F performed activities based on a science camouflage lesson followed by a rounding and placing values lconcept in mathematics.
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