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Reinvent - Hosted By PranayUsing Assessments and Personalised Adaptive Technology to Improve Learning OutcomesIn the 2009 PISA test, India ranked 72nd out of the 73 participating countries. Every year ASER report highlights the poor state of education in India. Although India has been able to get almost every child into school, that has not necessarily translated into learning. Improving learning outcomes by overcoming rote learning is the need of the hour. Technology can be the fulcrum that we can leverage to solve the current problems of varying learning levels in the classroom and getting them to learn.
Today I talk to Pranav Kothari, Vice President of Educational Initiatives. In this episode, we...
2020-08-0243 minReinvent - Hosted By PranayMicrofinance: How it works and helps people to fight povertyIf you look at the statistics, the extent of disparity in credit in our country is seemingly unbelievable.
The rural population comprising 60% of the total population makes up for only 2.3% of the total credit. Credit plays an important role in everyones life and helps us to progress to next big thing. Banks generally doesn’t give loans to poor households and government schemes are not helping to bridge this credit gap.
Of course, there are various factors - both qualitative and quantitative that are responsible for this.
So this is where micro fi...
2020-07-2654 minReinvent - Hosted By PranayImpact of modern education on learning, cognition and originality.We all agree to the fact that there is something wrong with the education system. Even I feel the same but I really do not what exactly is wrong with it. I was exploring this question from some time. In the process of exploring this question, I got to know about KB Jinan. KB Jinan has been exploring biological roots of learning from past 30 years and has been vocal about how modern education damages child’s brain and originality. He also has been researching about how to rediscover reimagine education paradigm from teaching to learning. I enjoyed talking to hi...
2020-07-1526 minReinvent - Hosted By PranayBuilding playgrounds to bring back playThere are lot of non profits and NGOs work in education sector. Majority of them work in areas like teacher training, curriculum building, parent engagement but a vey few them work towards bringing back play to school. These days play in playgrounds has become a rare reality. Today, I talk to Pooja Rai of Anthill Creations, an organisation which is working towards solving this problem by building playgrounds in schools and communities. Anthill Creations is a not for profit organisation which aims to bring back play for all age groups by building sustainable playscapes, using contextual designs and localized resources...
2020-07-0132 minReinvent - Hosted By PranayPolitical Satire in IndiaWe all know about the state of media in our country. In the time of messy news debates and senseless sensationalism, there are very few independent news websites and youtube channels that are trying to play a fair game to provide the right information,facts and analysis. Today we talk to someone who belong this small group but does things diffetenrtly, he is a political satirist. Hold on your questions there and start listening the podcast.
Akash Banerjee, founder and host of India's biggest Political Satire platform, The Deshbhakt joins Pranay to talk about political satire, the process of using...
2020-06-2232 minReinvent - Hosted By PranayTransforming a government schoolThe condition of the Indian government schools is pathetic. A lot of us have the privilege to not go to government schools but unfortunately, 65% of all school-going children continue to get their education from government schools. It is high time we start looking into changing these sub standard schools and make sure every one in the country gets proper education. Today, we talk to Mainak Roy, founder and Ceo of Simple Education Foundation about how they are transforming government schools. Lets find out more about their work
Also Check it out: https://simpleeducationfoundation.org/
This Organisation In Delhi Is Changing T...
2020-06-1541 minReinvent - Hosted By PranaySchools with no classrooms & teachersWe all agree to the fact that there is something wrong about the education system but only few of us try to solve the problem. Today I talk to Abhijit Sinha who recognised that there something wrong and acting towards making things right. He is in a journey to create a alternative education paradigm.
Abhijit Sinha is founder and CEO of Project Defy. Project DEFY is challenging conventional mainstream education, and enabling communities around the world to create their own self-learning spaces called Nooks, where each individual can design their own education.
Also Check out, https://projectdefy.org/
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2020-06-0848 minReinvent - Hosted By PranayDesign thinking and education.Design thinking has been happening for decades now. Wouldn't it be interesting if children involve in this? When children engage in identifying real-world challenges. When they empathise, talk to real users, and get to the root of the issue; they start getting closer to implementing innovative solutions for their community. Today, I speak to Shreyas Prakash Nair who is doing great work to create a movement of young leaders to equip them with the right attitude to solve problems of the community.
Shreyas is the founder and director of the organisation, D hive labs and currently pursuing Masters at TU D...
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