Coverage of EI study in Mint News Paper

EI and Wipro conducted the Quality Education Study (QES) in the top schools of the 5 metros –Delhi,Mumbai,Bangalore,Chennai and Kolkata. The findings of this study have been recently announced. Some very disturbing and some very interesting findings have come afloat through this research.

Read on the series of stories that Mint did and find more.

Day 1 –part 1

Day 1 –Part 2

Day 2

Day 3 –with Expert View of Sudhir Ghodke,founder and director Educational Initiatives.

Day 4

‘Desafio’ announced – EI’s first game building competition for college students

Educational Initiatives brings its first ever online competition for college students. ‘Desafio’ in its first year is calling out to youth aspiring to explore the exciting world of developing online or off line games,applications and other interactive tools. These games / applications / tools have to be original creations that will help school students to understand topics,subject concepts or even skills.

One does not need to be a coding geek to build these games / applications. One only needs to do visualize how students learn any particular concept or skill and how can that learning be made better and fun. The games / applications can be developed on concepts of any subject or topic like Maths,Science,English or Social Studies.

EI feels games,application or other interactive tools can prove to be useful means to help children learn better by engaging them and minimising the learning gaps.

Teams will have to register themselves by February 28. Final version of the game and game supporting document will have to be uploaded on the website by March 5. Shortlisted entries will be announced after which the final voting will take place online. Prizes to be won include tablet PCs,iPhones and paid internships for 4-8 weeks at EI and an opportunity to work with experts in the field.

Eligibility

-          Desafio is open to students pursuing graduation/post graduation from any college

-          Register as a team (of maximum of 3 members)

-          Students forming the team need not be from the same college

-          There is no restriction on number of teams from one college

Event Format

-          Desafio is an online contest

-          Only a fully developed game will be considered as a valid entry

-          Game can be built on any format (Java/Flash/Flex/Python or any other)

-          You also need to send us a game supporting document which lists out:

  • Basic features of the game
  • Levels in the game
  • Game controls
  • Maths Skills/Concepts dealt in the game

ASSET Question-A-Day at Presidency School,R T Nagar,Bangalore

The ASSET questions have been widely recognized for their ability to trigger the thinking process in children and to expose them to a fresh and unique way to check their own understanding of key concepts covered in the school curriculum.  The ASSET Question-A-Day (AQAD) is a set of thought provoking questions that aim to make students more accustomed to skill-based questions on a regular basis.
Sharing one such example from Presidency School,  R T Nagar,  Bangalore


AQAD is used everyday to  give exposure to good questions that trigger real learning among students. In Presidency School,a print out of the ASSET Question a day is  taken and put it up on the notice board. Students go through the question and submit their answers in the form of chit. They put this chit in an ASSET pouch,specially designed by the students of each class.
The next day,one entry from each class is selected and the winning student gets a chocolate.  This activity has created a lot of buzz in the school and students look forward to answering the questions daily.