Evolving Schools and Pedagogy

The Gurukula Education has never waned and has never lost it importance, at the same moment we have never dared to introduce new learning methodologies through Technology. Every child starts to learn by imitating, mimicking their parents and their relatives and they are further put up at schools with teachers to make them enter a systematic way of learning, to make them succeed in their lives by the way directed by wisdom and knowledge. Schools, Colleges, Universities, Institutions, Research Centers and we can go on to add the ways the educational systems being put up in myriad number of ways.

In my school, I happen to read a Science fiction lesson. The lesson expounded that in the future children will not be send to schools rather, they will stay at home learning everything through personal computers. Yes, the future seems to have come now. Today most of us learn with Computers. Instead of stating in general as computers, i should state that we have started learning with our newly found electronic gadgets.

Schools and its facilities also has changed to a large extend. Schools have also become trendy. Smart Boards is an awesome invention, they can help both the tutors and the students to visualize many concepts in depth and any upcoming technologies to make the learning interesting.

New horizon has opened and people have started to hold newly opened position know as "Student Facilitators". Facilitators unlike teachers will help students only to guide them so that they could learn the syllabus with an incremental improvement. Students are tracked as they make progress in the virtual class rooms. Exams, tests, assignments, feedback, weak area identification, progress, motivation what not? everything happens in the virtual class rooms.

Emails, video conferencing, chats, mobile phones are the medium of communication for the learning students as well as the facilitators. Because of such changes in the pedagogy, the gap between the normal life outside school and life within the schools is getting thin.

Training at Corporate Industries, especially at software industries also takes places through shared resources via video conference. Live chats happens when a trainee wants to raise a questions to the trainer. Assignments are submitted through online and mails.

Such evolution in the educational system certainly could bring in, more changes than we anticipate, in our mere future. I could find many people adapting to these new changes to better evolve themselves to the new trend.

It seems that it is better to keep track of the changes happening in the education system with the new technology and its impact, in order to make our stance and to help our children. Future Parents should find out new ways to sort out the best way to put up their children so that they could better support themselves to learn and find a good position in the society. It seems that we could be made obsolete very quickly than we made our previous generations. But c'est la vie, we shall tackle it as it happens.

"Man had withstand many changes
and many generation have passed by.

This is just, an yet another change.

Every time the challenges are different,
yet man had withstood and has made his stance.

This is just, an yet another challenge.

Every change and challenge has its threats and difficulties
yet man had withstood to come out with flying colors

This is just, an yet another threat and difficulty
This is just, an yet another generation to take man to his next epoch."

Vision and Execution determines a Leader

I came across this Gartner's chart some time back.When I came in acquaintance with it, It is said to determine Leaders in a particular IT product. It segregates the players into 4 different categories based on their execution ability and their ability to complete their vision as seen below.



This chart can also be used to evaluate people belonging to any Niche to determine Leaders, Challengers and Visionaries. It helps any person to sort out good players.

The chart clearly shows that at some instance Challengers can join with Visionaries to become Leaders. I think IT giants like IBM, Google buys some small concerns to become Leaders in a particular field or technology. They have the "ability to execute" but remains as Challengers in a particular field or technology. In order to become Leaders, they sort out visionaries and acquire them.

One can also define a Leader based on this chart as, "Any Person or Industry having the outstanding ability to complete the vision with outstanding ability to execute further or the vice verse will be the leader of all time."

My Learning : Be a Visionary and sharpen the skill sets to gain the ability to execute in order to become a Leader.

My Art Gallery

Art works such as drawing and painting brings in a cherubic moment as there is nothing to target and all that is required is to bring one’s thoughts to draw a picture to paint. It does not imposes any limits but helps one to bring all kind of imaginations without rules.

I always had a bent towards drawing art works and painting right from my childhood. I still could remember my first drawing class in my upper kinder garden, the very first picture that I drew was the trace of my hand. The very first success in bringing out the plausible picture brought immense pleasure and joy. Though the picture was not so astounding to adore as a great achievement, It is heartening to recollect the first accomplishment which left me to heave a sign of completion with heavy breath. I think it is not only me, everyone gets such moments in life when they drop into the trip of unknown and turns it with conscious effort to a success. For me every picture I paint had brought such moment.

Here I am sharing some of my painting that I had paint and preserved.

Cartoons are something very easy to paint and here goes the first big picture that I painted on my 8^th grade. It is a full A2 size drawing made with colour pencil and a water colour touch been provided by smudging the pencil shades using water. The painting has been put up with utmost frivolity to rejoice all the cartoons that I enjoyed watching.                                                                                  

The Second painting is also a cartoon which was made on same grade, It is again a A2 sized painting. It was done with a posture colour. The victory in a social painting competition at poondi made me to come up with this painting. 

"Union of all religions" was the topic given to participants in the competition. I tried to depict conflagration of three religious worshipping places - temple, mosque and church and when some onlooker questioned the reason for my depiction, I replied "I find everyone has some inkling, unflagging religious belief, only such depiction would make them to realize that we are in requirement for a change to instigate peace." It won me a second prize when around  fifty to hundred participants also tried to compete by depicting their own perspectives.

In this cartoon, I tried to depict the importance to avail education. I titled it as "Education is the great treasure that a man should have" trying to make my fellow students to have a different look at the education they are availing. The theme and the cartoon has been taken from a chocolate cover (tiffin). A closer look would reveal that Mickey mouse and Donald duck are at awestruck to find their treasure of books and the books lying all around the treasure island. Thereby I try to state boundless and limitless knowledgeable things to be the found all around us and with a awe as we would have towards a treasure could bring in happiness and reverence in learning them.