Wow, really impressed by expensive high-tech services and applications, kids have access to at school. At 14, kid writes games software, creates digital brochures, cracks codes with class-mates simultaneously, accesses millions of rich internet-based learning tools.
However, kids may enjoy a little corner with an ugly old blackboard, colourful chalks & dusters! Hallmark of my school experience – fun, friendly, creative.
Sparked our passion, love for team based learning, bonded us together in special activities. All sorts of funny caricatures, quotes of the day, poems, solving puzzles, lovely drawings, random jokes, scribbles. Crazy laughs! A simple visually explorative way to grow our mental, emotional & social quotient. Beautiful, innocent self-expressions. Free, playful, an interactive way to learn & communicate.
Now, kids work individually, virtually on their iPads, laptop screens. Smart islands! Hope we can find a balance between traditional & futuristic styles of teaching.