You’ve probably heard of Salman Khan, the popular hero of Hindi films (If not, head over to my Movie Review Blog). Now here is another – Salman Khan of Khan Academy – the completely free virtual school. The first time I surfed to this website after hearing about it from a friend I was astounded […]
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Kid-safe news
I was mentioning to my kids the other day that they should be reading world news, since really you should know what’s going on outside your corner of the world. We don’t subscribe to a newspaper so the news getting would be all online.And now that I think of it, my remembrances of childhood morning […]
Read the rest of this entry »Stuff the kids won’t learn in school
An email, which has reached me before, reaches me again. It’s been out for a while, and does the rounds every so often. It’s about the 11 things kids won’t learn in school, and the author is supposed to be Bill Gates (according to the email). Now although I liked the content, it didn’t seem […]
Read the rest of this entry »Summer reading for antsy little boys
Summer is here, and schools are about to close, giving us parents the opportunity to be the sole entertainers for our little bundles of joy for a whole three months. Yippee-ki-yay! as someone would say. Needless to say I am on the lookout for wonderful things for them to do (read fun for them and […]
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Kids run around. They fall. They hurt themselves. All the time. My son seems to have a knack for it. When this happens in school, they’ll give me a note which explains what happened and what they did to correct it. I remember this one note years ago, as my little boy proudly displayed his […]
Read the rest of this entry »Schooling and the desire to learn
My kids have been doing Science Projects at school for a couple of years now. The Projects are simple experiments where you have a question and you answer it with due process, analysis etc., not some high-faluting Scientific mumbo-jumbo which makes their mother (i.e.; moi) hyperventilate. Example of projects which kids did are: which battery […]
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