Learner Centered Design Education

Imagine you are given just 2 hours to assemble an endnote bibliography for your (PhD) research project. This bibliography in addition is required to have 250 references. You are playing the role of a ‘research assistant’ in a high pressure research organisation – aka working for a ‘think tank’. When doing a lit review you need to 'set up the bookshelf' I use the book shelf analogy to describe - bu...

10 प्रश्न 10 questions  फ्लिप क्या होता है? थॉट एक्सपेरिमेंट क्या होता है? टीचर क्या चीज़ है? क्या स्कूल और पढाई सही है? जैसे के चल रहा है? लीन करिकुलम क्या होता है? गोल क्या है? क्या गलती करना ख़राब होता है? क्यों सोचें? क्या बेहतर है - कंटेंट या मेथड? टीचिंग पोर्टफोलियो क्या होता है? Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

The idea that the student has grown up as a goat herd and has played with goats. That she has an emotional attachment with goats. That she will miss the goats when she is at school. Is a powerful strength that provides a channel into activating the student's agency. Intro voice Zain. Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

If the answer is yes, then if you had to design a program for a singing camp. What would that look like? Maybe a lot of antakshari playing. Then some speculation on meanings. Lots of laughter. Finding out words, their meanings and adding them to ones brain. The language gym! Maybe writing them out in ROMAJI. That is the word for the script when you write Japanese using English alphabets. Isn't wri...

This is #1 in a series of episodes that explore the topic of Learner Centered Education in the context of a specific bridge course - that of educating non literate children in the 8-16 year bracket. This series is in hindi, or more precisely hinglish. Outro: Chaap Tilak, by Abida Parveen Coke Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SDrjwtfKMk Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.w...

If you play cricket, then you know cricket words. English words like out, catch, bat and ball. How many words of the cricket language, cricket vocabulary, do you have? Can you then learn more cricket words? Do you know other English words? Police, Bus, Bank, Okay?  Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

I asked Canva and Iain, my son, for help to do my Podcast Covers. I activated my play mode to do the covers. Then when my brain fired up I sat down to build a an excel/ Airtable spread sheet of topics for future podcast episodes. Canva: https://www.canva.com/ Airtable: https://au.pcmag.com/old-collaboration/49221/airtable Iain: https://iainsoumitri.com/portraits

This is a Sunday recording. A story of how I got into making podcasts. Well not the whole story. I have omitted a lot of the disasters. The Failures. For while I am forever failing in things I start. Never finishing things I start. That is another way to tell a story. This one is more orientated to you. You who have thought about it. Hmmm, should I do podcasts? Maybe. Maybe another time. The what...

(Yesterday) was week 10. That is when I has a class - that I refer to as the 'lets pack up' and move on class. I divide a semester of 12 weeks into 4 quarters of 3 classes. So this is the last quarter. What did I say in class? Well, I wrote up what I said. Some of it. As a journal entry.  Also, To class I took a series of phrases that I had been  listening to in the podcasts over the wee...

Note: This is an alt version of the "heart work" podcast.  (Yesterday) was week 10. That is when I has a class - that I refer to as the 'lets pack up' and move on class. I divide a semester of 12 weeks into 4 quarters of 3 classes. So this is the last quarter. What did I say in class? Well, I wrote up what I said. Some of it. As a journal entry. Also, To class I took a series of phrases that...

I am Soumitri Varadarajan, the host of this podcast show, titled Learner Centered Design Education. This is the audio version. The audio-ification, as it were, of the texts that I write. To keep my thoughts outside my head. My Blog on Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ My Website: http://soumitri.com.au/