Shows
Learner Centered Design EducationPure Design and Ablohhttps://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/pure-design-and-abloh/
2024-05-1222 min
Learner Centered Design EducationFirst Person SingularFor details look up - https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/first-person-singular/
2024-05-0925 min
Learner Centered Design Educationi.e. ID - That is Industrial DesignIt is May 2024. I have mentioned the acronym i.e. ID. I have been asked to provide a voice note explaining this process.
2024-05-0909 min
Learner Centered Design EducationTell me about Material CultureDescription section and resources coming soon.
2024-04-2334 min
Learner Centered Design EducationCan you tell me about a Masters by Research and a PhD?Link: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/can-you-tell-me-about-a-masters-by-research-and-a-phd/
Site 'PhD with Soumitri': https://sites.google.com/view/phdwithsoumitri/home
2024-01-0127 min
Learner Centered Design EducationBeatles and Keats in the ClassroomI had a conversation with a friend. About the creative period. As being in the 20s. That the Beatles and Keats both had their best works in that period.
2023-11-1214 min
Learner Centered Design EducationThe Smeis TypologyThis is a podcast about project design. Or the typology of projects - aka what are the types of projects. Or what are the 5 types that all projects can be classified into.
See more here - https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/the-smeis-typology/
2023-08-061h 33
Campaign ProjectsWho killed Berta Caceres?This talk is the first is a series of 12 episodes titled; Ecologies of Environmentalism. The central theme of these episodes will the typologies of environmentalism. Where place is a key actor. Where the kind of environmentalism seen in a particular place is defined by the ecology of actors in that place.
Who killed Berta Caceres? - is a book by Nina Lakhani. See Link below for the audio interview with the author.
Book Author Nina Lakhani Youtube Link
Campaign Projects Website - https://campaignprojects.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/who-killed-berta-caceres/
Who is S...
2023-07-2133 min
Learner Centered Design EducationIs This The End For Consultants?I have been reading Mariana Mazzucato. The Big Con is the book. Dont read it if you have a weak constitution or if you have a tendency to flame. I had to frequently put it down - it is that incendiary. LINK
The title for this podcast is borrowed from here: LINK
QUOTE "Cynicism around consulting is nothing new. That adage about a consultant “borrowing your watch to tell you the time” didn’t come from nowhere. But the problem is now stark. According to research by McKinsey, 70% of transformations fail."
If the things...
2023-05-0525 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWhat is Industrial Design Work?Names in this episode:
James Dyson: Best to buy the book I think. LINK
Isambard Kingdom Brunel LINK
Buckminister Fuller LINK
Monika Mulder: http://monikamulder.com/
Guy Burgoyne: https://youtu.be/Jz0mKjwaBPQ
Pernilla Johansson: Search in YouTube
Ralph Gilles: Look up Abstract on Netflix.
The binaries?
celebrity versus altruism
market versus ideé fixe
Ideé fixe: https://www.britannica.com/art/idee-fixe
2023-04-0250 min
Learner Centered Design EducationCan you learn French in four weeks?Maybe yes? Maybe no? Listen to hear about what I did.
I have undertaken a pilot project to learn French in 4 weeks. I have attended 40 hours of classes at Alliance Française Montpellier – learning in that way. I have also studied French using apps and flash cards. I now have a good grasp of the language. The pilot project is complete. Flipping my project – I also have a good understanding of what is involved in language training, especially when it comes to learning English, from a background in French speaking.
I now have a desire to im...
2023-03-0343 min
Learner Centered Design EducationHow to do LTP?Recording from Montepellier, France.
Links
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Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/
2023-02-1723 min
Learner Centered Design EducationHow to do Instagram.I speak about my foray into doing Instagram for a trip. I then muse about the typology of ways that constitute what we see as the visual instagram. In my case I sketch a typology in 5 parts, which sometimes expands to 6 parts. For more have a listen.
For the Instagram account that I refer to, see: https://www.instagram.com/soumitri_varadarajan/
2022-09-0526 min
Learner Centered Design EducationThe Library is a PlaceI am doing a few stub episodes on The Library. This first recording is about the Library as Place.
The Library is a place.
The library is a social space.
The Library is a proposition open for coding as L4X.
2022-08-1111 min
Learner Centered Design EducationHow to make a designer?This is an episode about pedagogy. It is also a bit about how design is constructed in the contemporary in my local area.
Binaries
Consumer Side/ Producer Side
Destination/ Journey aka Product/ Process
Design as Art/ Design as a Job
City Studio/ Factory R&D aka Studio/ Lab
Retail/ Museum
Thing/ Service
Local/ Exotic
Rich/ Poor (and the middle class?)
Theory/ Manufacture
Gadget/ Decorative Object
Links
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Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/
2022-05-2857 min
Learner Centered Design EducationBeauty (Live Recording Version)This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about Beauty. I have the book “On Beauty” by Umberto Eco sitting on my desk. Is that what triggered me to do this episode? Possibly.
Podcast structure:
Beauty in Three Parts
Outer Beauty
Inner Beauty
The beauty of machines
Essential Beauty
Insider language: The Chatter, the isms, the flipping
The preoccupation with thingness
The form of things
The esse...
2022-05-201h 02
Learner Centered Design EducationPerfection (Live Recording Version)This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about Perfection. An instigation – aimed at students on their journey of becoming designers.
Links
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Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/
CORRECTION: The Lexus car I mentioned as LFA is in fact the LC500. This is a link to an article - https://newsexplorer.net/one-of-the-best-sounding-v8s-in-production-is-from-the-lexus-lc-500-s922472.html
A Japanese Craftsman bu...
2022-05-1451 min
Learner Centered Design EducationGoats with Agency (Live Recording Version)This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about Learning. An instigation – aimed at students on their journey of becoming designers. An Australian lens specially crafted to see a very particular kind of territory and landscape of education? Maybe.
Links
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Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/
2022-04-2845 min
Learner Centered Design EducationChina, how I grew my love (Live Recording Version)This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about China. A designer’s China. A Designer’s lens specially crafted to see a very particular China.
I can open a door to China. A very peculiar door. My door. My China.
Do you have a China of your own? Can you name 10 designers in China? 5 Architects? One fashion Designer?
Do you love China?
Links
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2022-04-1454 min
Learner Centered Design EducationFreedom (Live Recording Version)This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about freedom. Freedom was the title of a book I read over the holiday period. Link below.
9.38 The Article I read out from: https://culturacolectiva.com/books/on-the-road-jack-kerouac/“Without this book we might have never had Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or films such as Thelma and Louise, Paris, Texas, or Easy Rider. Kerouac’s influence is such that in the biographical Light My Fire: My Life With...
2022-04-0847 min
Learner Centered Design EducationEmbodiement (Live Recording Version)This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about temperament.
The links are – further reading on this subject.
Links
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Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/
Blog Post on Embodiement: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/temperament-and-embodiement/
2022-04-0533 min
Learner Centered Design Education10 keys to unpack DesignI am treating design as a text - that can be interpreted. Then again I am using design as food. Which can be queried to seek its genealogy, why is it the way it is? Food is culture. Culture is the ways of a people. And here we have a package - a bundle - that can be opened to reveal. Design seen as a bundle - a thing holding secrets - can reveal the cultural construct.
As you can see I could be making a case against design as a functional, utilitarian commodity making enterprise. Design...
2022-03-3120 min
Learner Centered Design EducationTemperament (Live Recording Version)This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about temperament. In the past I have posted in my blog about the twin essences of Embodiement and Temperament. Are these unique to design? Or am I making a place and a theme that will allow us to pivot away from the cerebral? Yes to Both.
I am making a case that being within design is a gift. That keeps giving. The managerial-isation of design and the worker-isation...
2022-03-3028 min
Learner Centered Design EducationRadio Bakri: Goats with Zips (Hindi)I was invited to deliver a lecture lecture at a Refresher course organized by HRDC, Panjab University, Chandigarh on the “Two weeks” Refresher Course (Online Mode) from March 12-25, 2022 on the theme: "Locating the Contours of Indian Modernities: Challenges and Possibilities".
This audio is a recording of my talk.
Tech: The online event was on Google Meet. I used an iPhone next to the laptop as my recording device. The editing was done on Audacity.
The links are – further reading on this subject.
Links
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2022-03-2642 min
Learner Centered Design EducationEnculturationThis is an episode about enculturation which is both the process of becoming. A process of becoming a designer. With designer tastes and a designer view. I expand on culture, taste, people an places as key aspects of developing a knowledge of ones own process of enculturation.
The links are – further reading on this subject.
Links
Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/
Bringing Home the Birkin by Michael Tonello LINK
Primates of North Avenue by Wednesday Martin LINK...
2022-03-2037 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWhat is Design?What is Design?
Can be answered in any number of ways. While many would like to give you a definition of Design or Industrial Design. I think that would be wrong. For in the process of essentialising the meaning of design - you may end up speaking about something that you want to push. Are definitions by their very nature amenable to be used for propaganda? Why wouldn't you.
Design like a pair of sneakers, is best worn. And not defined.
And just like sneakers. Design can be apprehended. Held in your hand. A...
2022-03-1943 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWhat is Design?You asked me this question. So, what is Design? This podcast is in response to that question.
NOTE: The audio is not great. Lots of background hiss. Wind? Maybe. Maybe, I should have used a wind sock. But I am starting this thing of experimenting with how I do the audio. Anchor asked me - do you want to upload video? And so I have much bigger issues to think about now.
What is the point of asking this question. It is almost as though we are asking what is food? What is music? Or...
2022-03-1347 min
Learner Centered Design EducationA chat with Alex TatoulisI have begun to speak to some young Industrial Designers in Melbourne. I have gained enough confidence with the tech, the Zoom camera, to venture into speaking with other people. And shoving the mic under their nose. I am probably not doing it right. But will keep doing it this way, or else I fear falling into the tech aspiration rabbit hole. I have escaped from the ‘indoors’ tomb like sepulchral silence of the corporate podcasts by being outdoors when I speak. Not quite Attenborough, but chill enough so that I don’t take myself too seriously.
So thi...
2022-01-2755 minLearner Centered Design EducationA chat with Tim Denshire KeyI went across to Coburg to have an early morning chat, 8 AM, on a Monday. Tim showed me around Coburg Studios. Then we headed off to Coburg lake to have a chat.
This podcast is a first in a series of conversations I am having with an assortment of people.
Tim Denshire Key: https://www.instagram.com/tim_t_design/?hl=en
Coburg Studios: https://www.instagram.com/coburgstudios/?hl=en
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2022-01-2441 min
Learner Centered Design EducationI got Jeff Bezos and Larry Smarr to have dinnerIn my imaginary, I booked a table at a restaurant in Seattle. Canlis? Maybe. I invited Jeff and Larry to a meal. To talk about the coming together of the kinds of things they have been talking about.
This is an epistolary podcast. I speak to a former student, nay I am badgering a former student (as you do) to collaborate with me. Are not all our students agents in an ecology of the global intellect? Well if they are then the world is a community of mentats. Speaking in tongues. For more on mentats you probably n...
2022-01-0647 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWhich School?I made this episode after our conversation about Art Schools. It rekindled forgotten memories. I have enjoyed travelling back in time. I haven’t teased out s much of the detail, of all the things that preoccupied me. For I buried my USA and UK period of the 80s underneath a furious Italy period, then my Japanese period and finally a China period. So it is fascinating to travel back this far and remember the spirit of the times - the 80s.
Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/which-school/
Design Quarterly Issue: https://go...
2021-12-2224 min
Learner Centered Design EducationOn teaching creativityIn this episode I have a eulogy for my teaching mentor. He was there for me. Young man, is how he referred to me, and to all the others. Big generous, supportive and what an appetite for risk taking. All his examples, nay metaphors, would be about climbing mountains. Don't look back. Hang on! And the laugh, that wave if the hand, so many memories.
Do you remember the first time you ever taught? My first teaching assignment was to teach creativity in a School of Architecture. Did the student love it? I am sure they hated...
2021-12-1122 min
Learner Centered Design EducationDare we reimagine school?In Episode 3 - How do you teach manufacturing - I was speaking about a course I taught at IIT Delhi. I have an intro from one of the students who was in that course. I then am using that to speak an audio letter to a collaborator about a very different kind of 'how'. This is about what could be imagined as an intensive for young people, children and generally for anyone. I make the case, not very effectively, that the alignment with school is not really the point. Rather the aspirations that people have of becoming something. The...
2021-12-1125 min
Learner Centered Design EducationDyson and the meaning of Industrial DesignThis is a podcast, that serves as a note to self. I am reading Dyson's book, his autobiography "Invention: A life". This - the emergence of Dyson on the Industrial Design landscape in the early 1980s - was a significant moment at a time when I was adjusting the meanings associated with the phrase 'product design' from the way I had encountered it in engineering to this new 'design school' construct. Dyson knocked the bureau model on the head. Though not a lot of people called it out in this way. I did. But as a weird voice, had...
2021-12-0738 min
Learner Centered Design EducationHow do you teach manufacturing processes?Industrial designers embedded within large mass production enterprises, design products to be manufactured within the manufacturing facilities and vendor ecosystem of that company. It is possible that designers of products need to be aware of the manufacturing considerations. Well, at least in theory. In practice however the designer is the 'artist' in that manufacturing ecology. The place is teeming with expertise; engineers, shop floor technicians and a whole host of design engineers.
It is possible that how the others behave with the designer will be determined by the context. In Italy and Japan, the designer will be g...
2021-11-2020 min
Learner Centered Design EducationHow do you design a course?If you believe that the class is not one uniform mass that needs one inoculation jab. If you permit yourself to trust the students to educate themselves. If you are willing to spend twice, nay four times, as long doing the things you could have done in much less time. Then you need to find out who else does it this way. Who else is focussed upon what students can let themselves become. And when you find your answer. Cherish it. It will give you meaning.
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2021-11-1829 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWhat is Moderation?After the assessment tabulation is complete. There is another process - the Moderation.
I have participated in Moderation processes for about 20 years. They are a thing. Misunderstood, avoided, cancelled. They bring a lot to the academy. I am a fan of the qualitative celebration of work. Just as I am a fan of the peer peer assessment process. As a way of building academy.
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2021-11-1736 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWhat is a Capstone Project?My first experience of a capstone project was 39 years ago. Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a group of seven of us designed, built a windmill. We then put the prototype through its paces - as an experimental test rig.
This podcast is a musing about the Capstone Project. If there are 30 million of these happening on the planet right now. If there are a lot ways to do Capstone projects. The surely there is a typology of these kinds of projects. I hint at 4 types.
More importantly I ask if the Capstone always serves its p...
2021-11-1532 min
Learner Centered Design EducationYou only learn through reflectionThis is a podcast targeted at a very very small cohort. This is specific to Nov2021.
It is about allowing students to realize their agency.
It is about redirecting students to focus upon their becoming.
It is about re igniting a focus upon the essential purpose for which the students and teachers assemble.
It is about remembering that the teacher is a midwife.
Midwife? Maybe you could take a look at Weimer: LINK
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Campaign Projects: https://campaignprojects.w...
2021-11-0423 min
Learner Centered Design EducationAnalytic versus Speculative, Metaphorical or ContinentalCorrection: I keep referring to "Philosophize this". So this is a correction. That is another show. The ABC show that I have been listening to is "The Philosopher's Zone".
The Philosopher's Zone: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/
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2021-11-0327 min
Learner Centered Design EducationRamblings around Progressive PedagogyLearner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
The Philosopher's zone: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/philosophers-zone/id135353439?i=1000540262386
2021-11-011h 04
Learner Centered Design EducationThe Learner Centered Project Circa 2005This is a meandering reflection upon the ideas we churned in the cauldron that bubbled away 15 years ago. It was a different Australia. Though the people were equally gorgeous. What of things that we set in motion? That can be a treasure hunt for you.
The Learner Centered Project received a university award in 2005. One and a Half years after commencement. It went on till 2007. The current project My First 6 Months (LINK) carries much of the dna of what is these days referred to as progressive pedagogy. My short hand, method, avoids these changing fashions in names f...
2021-10-301h 05
Learner Centered Design EducationThe 8 things to do inside an Industrial Design PhDAnd my audience? "Deja Vu !!! I was transported to your class in Back studio. Loved it. Thanks. Looking forward to more." (from Detroit)
Lit review
Ethics
Project management - NOTION
Database - Airtable
Website
Blog
Exhibition
Public Lectures - colloquia
ADDITIONAL
RSS feed - Feedly, PaperLi
Twitter feed - tweetdeck
Pinterest
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2021-10-2825 min
Learner Centered Design EducationRaja, Venice on a HolidayThis one is for you, Raja.
You and I would sit outside the Youth Hostel. Remember us laughing at the tours? Cold wind, and cross the water from St Marcos. We saw tour groups - being led by their guides. The Backpackers and the Tour Groups.
You are no longer with us. A young life. No more. You came from Holland and I travelled from India. It was our Italy tour. A time of endless conversations.
Dead Poets Society: Link
A Few Good Men: LINK
Learner Centered Design Education...
2021-10-2714 min
Learner Centered Design EducationDesign is what Designers do.Design is what designers do #1
Hey girl,
When I graduated from Mechanical Engineering, I opted to stay in India.
Most of the others in my batch?
Headed off to the US.
In India I then did postgrad. At NID, the national institute of design in Ahmedabad. I elected to stay in India and ended up in Delhi, starting my own studio.
My whole cohort? My group of friends?
They headed off to the US.
5 years after graduation, just like Vineet and Abhishek, I too did a...
2021-10-2612 min
Learner Centered Design EducationThe Ethics ApplicationBecause I work within hospitals I do ethics applications for my projects. Because I have designed projects, written up their workplan, pitched them to hospital teams and executed the projects, I have learnt a lot about Ethics Applications. Because I supervise PhD students, Masters Students and Honours students - I say to them; "Hey, would you like to learn how to do an ethics application?". "So that you can put it into your CV and go looking for part time research work?"
I focus upon 'project design' aka how to design a project and how to describe...
2021-10-2325 min
Learner Centered Design EducationSoumitri speaks with Howard ErryThis is a recording also available, since 2016, in a blog authored by Howard Erry. I am speaking here about a research project - I Love Blended Learning. This is what was in those days the School of Architecture and Design. I was at that time the Deputy Dean of a Design Cluster (Industrial Design, Interior Design and the Master of Design Innovation and Technology). The focus of the project was on activating teaching staff to use more digital and online affordances in their courses. The focus was also upon programs, to get them to have a deliberate toolkit and...
2021-10-231h 01
Learner Centered Design EducationMethod - The Literature ReviewImagine 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 - buying a shelf from ikea (setting up endnote with categories, tags and groups), going to the bookshop/s to browse (aka downloading bibliographies from the internet - aka "bibliograp...
2021-10-1734 min
Learner Centered Design Educationरेडियो बकरी #7: क्या फ्लिप कर दिया जाए10 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?
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2021-10-101h 00
Learner Centered Design Educationरेडियो बकरी #6: क्या आप कंप्यूटर सीख सकते हैं बिना टाइपिंग के?
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2021-10-0910 min
Learner Centered Design Educationरेडियो बकरी #5: क्या सिलाई से साइंस सीखी जा सकती है?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.
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2021-10-0911 min
Learner Centered Design Educationरेडियो बकरी #4: क्या खाना बनाने के माध्यम से गणित सीखी जा सकती है?
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2021-10-0915 min
Learner Centered Design Educationरेडियो बकरी #3: क्या आप गानों के माध्यम से हिंदी सीख सकते हैं?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 writing Hindi words, movie posters, using the English alphabet also ROMAJI? I think it is.
Raat kali ek khwab: https://mrandmrs55.com/2021/03/21/raat-kali-ek-khwab-mein-aayi-lyrics-translation-lets-learn-urdu-hindi/
Learner...
2021-10-0917 min
Learner Centered Design Educationरेडियो बकरी #1: 'मेरे पहले पांच हफ्ते' - क्या यह प्रोजेक्ट हो सकता है?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
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2021-10-0927 min
Learner Centered Design Educationरेडियो बकरी #2: क्या क्रिकेट के माध्यम से अंग्रेजी सीखी जा सकती है?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?
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2021-10-0914 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWorried about Podcast Cover and Content Plan?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
2021-10-0512 min
Learner Centered Design EducationHow I started with PodcastsThis 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 ifs killed it. That is what happened to me too.
But this time - here I am. Warts and all.
2021-10-0335 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWhat then is "Heart Work"?(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 week. And one of them was ‘head work, hand work and heart work’. This person talking is Justine...
2021-10-0327 min
Learner Centered Design EducationResume Virtue & Eulogy VirtuesNote: 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 had been listening to in the podcasts over the week. And one of th...
2021-10-0126 min
Learner Centered Design EducationWelcomeI 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/
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