On Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary (Oct 2), I engaged in a conversation with a high school student in India on Instagram. He had posted a negative story about Gandhi (calling him harmful) to provoke one of his classmates, who supports Gandhian views. Although Gandhi is revered globally, Indians can have polarized views about him, hisContinue reading “My experiments with education: Polarization and curiosity”
Tag Archives: adolescents
My experiments with education: Responsible leadership and trolley problems
Last year, I conducted a workshop on responsible leadership (RL) at a #leadership development summer program for #adolescents in #India. I introduced the idea that leaders should assume #responsibility not only toward beneficiaries but also people, society, and the planet. After all, we have plenty of irresponsible leaders in the world. I also introduced 5Continue reading “My experiments with education: Responsible leadership and trolley problems”
My experiments with education: Wonderment board
Last week, I taught a course named Phatastics Physics to a group of high-ability adolescents (7th-8th graders) at Purdue University. I was excited (and quite scared, to be honest) to teach physics after a long gap (yeah, 7 years). I was under pressure because I was substituting my friend who was down with COVID-19, andContinue reading “My experiments with education: Wonderment board”
My experiments with education: Open-ended dialog
Last week, I interacted with a group of high-school students in India whom I have known for five years now. I was invited to have an open-ended virtual dialogue with them with no predefined agenda. I was excited (and a bit worried) about this interaction as high-schoolers have the unique ability to ask surprisingly awkwardContinue reading “My experiments with education: Open-ended dialog”
My experiments with education: Responsible leadership
I like to experiment with teaching new topics. Today (18 May 2022), I conducted a session on responsible leadership for 40 6th to 8th-grade students. This was a part of an ongoing leadership development camp at Jnana Prabodhini’s Institute Of Psychology. Although responsible leadership training is quite popular in the business world, I doubt if itContinue reading “My experiments with education: Responsible leadership”
Becoming exceptional with three simple things
Many of us aspire to be exceptional, don’t we? Some use words like gifted and talented to describe exceptionality in humans. I ask YOU what makes a person exceptional? Almost certainly, many of you may have immediately thought of outstanding abilities and skills that make a person exceptional. Let’s call this competence. One can easily recallContinue reading “Becoming exceptional with three simple things”
How do we motivate students to read? Part 2
In this blog post, I will elaborate on the application of the expectancy-value theory by Eccles and colleagues. This is a foundation theory in motivation and learning. I will describe this theory with the example of a reading intervention explained in the first part of this blog series. If you have not read part one,Continue reading “How do we motivate students to read? Part 2”
How do we support student motivation in learning?
In the summer of 2017, I along with my colleague founded an outside-of-school talent development program for middle school students studying in various schools in my hometown in India. We enroll children using various measures of intelligence, or through nominations from self, parents, or teachers. The program’s motto is to motivate intelligence for social change.Continue reading “How do we support student motivation in learning?”
Aakash Chowkase 