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”
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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”
Aakash Chowkase 