Documentary on Women & Religion in India

This documentary claims to be an attempt to capture the current day practices of all the major religions in different parts of India with an aim to understand what position and rights do women enjoy.

Do our conceptions about science match with how scientists do the science?

STEM for ALL Video Showcase

The 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM for All Video Showcase is an annual online event. Each year, it hosts between 100-200 three-minute video presentations from federally funded projects that aim to improve STEM (Science, Math, Engineering, and Mathematics) and computer science education. During the seven days of this online event, Principal Investigators, practitioners, administrators, researchers, policy makers, industry and the public at large are encouraged to participate. All participants will be able to view the video presentations, post to the facilitated discussions related to each video, and vote for the videos that are most effective in conveying the creative work being done. All videos and discussions will be archived for future access there after.

Argument Maps to Visualize the Logic of our Arguments

SimSketch: To Draw, Model and Simulate

Source:http://modeldrawing.eu/our-software/simsketch/

Modellus: Create and Explore Models Interactively using Mathematics

ChemCollective Virtual Lab

Connected Chemistry

ChemSense Visualizing Chemistry

Concept Mapping for Learning, Reflection, and Evaluation

Social Learning Theory: Learning in Landscapes of Practice

What is the Video About? Dr Etienne Wenger presented 'Learning in landscapes of practice: recent developments in social
learning theory' on Wednesday 1 May 2013 as part of the Festival of Research in the Brighton Fringe.

Learning is often viewed as something individuals do as they acquire information and skills. It is usually associated with some
form of instruction. Dr Wenger presents a different perspective on learning, one that starts with the assumption that learning is
an inherent dimension of everyday life and that it is fundamentally a social process. From this perspective, a living
"body of knowledge" can be viewed as collection of communities of practice. Learning is not merely the acquisition of a
curriculum, but a journey across this landscape of practice, which is transformative of the self. Achieving a high level of
"knowledgeability" is a matter of negotiating a productive identity with respect to the various communities of practice that
constitute this landscape. This lecture reviews the main tenets of this learning theory, the ways in which it has been used in
practice, and more recent developments.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3joQSQm4o

Frameworks for Large Scale Teacher Professional Development for Effective Technology Integration

Developing Systems Thinking through Building Models

Molecular Workbench for Molecular Modeling - Teaching Molecular Dynamics to Students

Ideas for School Projects: Students Harnessing the Potential of GIS - Geographical Information System

Source: http://www.esri.com/industries/education/schools#%20

Creating Interactive Videos for Classroom use

Learning Physics through Video Analysis and Modelling

Tracker is a free video analysis and modeling tool built on the Open Source Physics (OSP) Java framework. It is designed to be used in physics education. Tracker video modeling is a powerful way to combine videos with computer modeling.

Using Tracker we get position and time data for an object in motion. This is usually done with the drop timer or the motion detector, where as in video analysis, we use a program to mark an object in each frame of a video. This gives 2-dimensional position data (both x and y) as well as time. With this data we can analyze it as per our requirement.

http://physlets.org/tracker/

A Qualitative Study on Understanding the Nature of Systems Thinking in Experts

Online Course for School Teachers on 'Pedagogy for Effective use of ICT'

About This Course

This course is aimed at school teachers. Teachers already face myriad problems such as varying student interest and abilities, student focus on exam testing, managing large classes, and so on. To mitigate some of these problems, teachers are often called upon to explore use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in their classes. However, lack of formal training in research-based strategies is a barrier to effective integration of ICT in the teaching-learning process.

This course will provide an introduction to research-based and learner-centered pedagogy for effectively integrating ICT in school education. Participants of this course will apply these strategies during the course, to design materials and activities for topics in their own domain. This will help them to become informed teachers and tackle teaching-learning problems competently.

https://iitbombayx.in/courses/pedagogy-effective-use-ict-school-teachers-0

Go-Lab: Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning At School

In the Go-Lab Repository you can find remote and virtual laboratories for different science domains such as Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, and Math. You can use these labs together with your students to enrich your classroom activities with interactive experiments and appealing demonstrations. Moreover, here you can find inquiry learning applications, which will support your students in formulating research questions and hypotheses, conducting scientific experiments, and drawing conclusions.

http://www.go-lab-project.eu/

Project Gloria: Nurturing an Astronomer within Us

GLORIA stands for "GLObal Robotic-telescopes Intelligent Array". GLORIA is the first free and open- access network of robotic telescopes of the world. It will be a Web 2.0 environment where users can do research in astronomy by observing with robotic telescopes, and/or analyzing data that other users have acquired with GLORIA, or from other free access databases, like the European Virtual Observatory.
http://gloria-project.eu/en/

Educational Websites of Importance: Teacher Professional Development

Prominent Educational Thinkers: John Dewey

Online Inquiry Learning Space on Simple Pendulum

Enter your nick name to login and explore our Inquiry Learning Space on Simple Pendulum created using GoLabs authoring tool. If you don't see anything below most probably your browser has blocked the script for security reasons. Allow exception to this and start exploring our Inquiry Learning Space. Thanks for your Interest.

Mock Task on Designing Learning Environment for Educational Institutions

Websites of Educational Importance: Video Journal of Scientific Research Practices

Tools for Research: Video Transcription and Annotation

Prominent Educational Thinkers: Benjamin Bloom

Reading Together: A Tool for Collaborative Reading

A Guided Tour of NB from Sacha Zyto on Vimeo.

Tools for Research: Video Tracking and Behavior Annotation Tool

VideoAnt: A tool for teachers and students to have an in depth discussion around a video

An Effective Learning Design for Chemistry Education

Situated Learning Theory and Its Application

Thinking Aloud on My Research Interest

Context for the Research Interest:

We live in a complex world and we are complex beings with multiple identities where each identity is tied to a particular communities of practice. As a consequence of this complexity there are numerous academic disciplines and each discipline studies particular aspect of this complex world in detail. To live meaningfully and to make meaning of this complex world in which we live; each individual should be able to harness the essence of these disciplines as and when needed to act as efficiently as possible. But How? For example: A farmer needs to have access to the essence of various disciplines under Agricultural Science or Animal Husbandry while practicing farming; same farmer needs to have access to the essence of political science while participating in a democratic process; again the same farmer needs to have access to the essence of economics in order to carefully manage his/her resources or to even decide which crop to grow or to cater to which market, same person may need the understanding of geography in order to decide where to invest or buy a property with his/her hard earned money. Similarly the purpose of many other disciplines like medicine, education, linguistics, business administration etc

Research Questions

1. How can we effectively train individuals to be able to identify problems in their everyday life and enable them to situate it within one or more relevant academic disciplines to seek scientific answers or solutions?
2. What are the affordance of different theories of ‘How people learn?’ for such a training of individuals?
3. What are the affordance of research methodology and existing information technologies for such a training of individuals?

A sample lesson plan based on Constructionism

Mini-projects #1 - Constructionism

Gaol: Pick a non-STEM domain (e.g, photography, history, etc.) and identify learning challenges that novices
may potentially face while learning a specific concept and content relevant to that domain. Design a mini
lesson plan (around 30 min long) using constructionism theory to help the novice learn the domain
related concept(s) and content(s).

Domain Chosen	Political Science or Civics as usually referred in school textbooks.
Learning Difficulty Chosen	Specific learning challenge that novices face in this domain is to do the critical analysis of political debates and compare the political representatives contributing to the debate based on the nature of arguments they make.
Relevance	This is an important skill expected of citizens in democratic society in order to assess their political representatives.
Resources	Video(1hr length) of live parliament debate on demonetisation sourced from Loksabha TV and the transcript of same(Multiple copies). Sticky notes.
Pre-Class Activity Est Time: 2 hr	Students are required to watch the debate, list down the participants in the debate and against each participant have to write their comments on the nature of arguments that each participant is making.
In-Class Activity Est time: ½ hr	In the class students will discuss with peers, agree upon and give points(0-100) to each political representative based on the above six criteria referred in the image. That is 1.Inform : How well a political representative is contributing towards informing the group with evidence, examples, explanations etc 2.Question: How well a political representative is contributing towards raising valid and appropriate questions. Similarly of other criteria. In the process students will build a collaborative chart such as below using sticky notes and the transcript. Criteria Political Rep 1 Political Rep 2 ……. Inform Sticky notes with excerpts from transcript Sticky notes with excerpts from transcript Question Sticky notes with excerpts from transcript Sticky notes with excerpts from transcript …... Sticky notes with excerpts from transcript Sticky notes with excerpts from transcript Total Points XX XX
Post-Class Activity	Students will post their reflection notes on their comparison of political representatives before class and after class.