During my teaching days, I first heard of the term, ‘Integrated Learning’, which involves project-based learning. Back then, integrated learning meant the integration of subjects and making projects based on the same. We never thought ...
It is evident that we cannot teach the students of today the way we were taught in the 20th century. Times have changed, technology has impacted us to a substantial extent and there is no ...
The education industry, in the last decade or so, has witnessed a shift, with technology playing a significant role in shaping the methods of teaching, learning and assessments. All of this augurs well for the ...
Children are natural explorers. During their formative years, they are highly impressionable and receptive to different forms of learning. Not only does the development of the brain take place during this period but also the ...
According to Jean Piaget, ‘What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.’ This process of constant change comes from education and cognitive development. Piaget believed that children’s ability to ...
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. – ...
Cognitive development is a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience. Children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know ...
What is the nature of children’s knowledge? How does it change as they grow? These fundamental questions revolve around cognitive development. Cognitive development refers to how a child explores, thinks and gains an understanding of ...