Educational Thoughts

Recent days many universities and educational department of government bodies emphasises to bring awareness about gender sensitization, gender inequality and gender discrimination. It's a high time to bring ethical attitude and humanitarian aspects to build harmonious society and livelihood. Considering all  these  aspects I am bringing a series of articles to your door step. It may help the academic fraternity and NGO's to educate both students and public to build a better eco system and a human race to form a peaceful community. This article is compiled with visuals, that will make you to understand easily.  Understanding and using appropriate words both in terms of conversation and in writing are more important in grooming students. I hope you will enjoy reading this article. Sex = Male or Female Gender = Masculine or Feminine Sex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs Fem...

The National Institutional Ranking Framework is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The ranking system is done based on the discipline like pharmacy, dental sciences, medical sciences, engineering, arts and sciences, polytechnic etc. The Framework was approved by the MHRD and launched by Minister of Human Resource Development on 29 September 2015.   Wikipedia The major 5 parameters considered for the evaluation and ranking the institution. Verification and authentication of data is very important. Data in the website for public scrutiny is very important . 1. Teaching learning resources 30% 2. Research and professional practices 30% 3. Vision and outcomes placements and higher Eduction top        universities 20% 4. Inclusiveness and diversity 10% 5. Perception 10%

Ages and Stages This article shares about words, phrases, meaning and connections with people and age. Understanding the characteristics of each generation will help us to establish personal or official relationship in the harmonious way. Understanding helps us in team productivity and good team spirit. Let’s start with the various names that are applied to different generations. A Baby Boomer generation   is someone who was born during the baby boom (=large increase in the number of babies) that followed the Second World War. The dates for this generation are approximately 1946 to 1964. Baby Boomer Generation -  I (1940s-1950s)   Baby Boomer Generation -  II (1950s-1960s)   Generation X (1960s-1980s) GenX enjoy receiving instant feedback/advice and are most comfortable giving feedback/advice to others. GenX’shave pragmatic approach to getting things done. They desire to include an element of fun in both their persona...

Dear Electronics Folks, In this article you will have a great excitement to see the list of free/open source circuit designing/circuit simulator software's.  List of Open Source Circuit Designing and Analysis Software 1. SPICE tool for circuit design and analysis Electronic  circuit design , analysis ,and  simulation  software based on linux http://www.partsim.com/simulator 2. EveryCircuit is the best tool for electronics circuit design and analysis. http://everycircuit.com You can build and simulate circuits right on your phone or tablet, animate and understand how they work, check homework and test your designs.  The following website will allow one day (24 hours) free access to any registered mail id. So the trick to use this software is keep using your friends mail id or generate a temporary mail id support and use it for free 365 days. The following articles will explain the way to generate a temporary mail ids. https://www.qu...

New Bloom's Taxonomy :                            This new taxonomy reflects a more active form of thinking and is perhaps more accurate. The new version of Bloom's Taxonomy, with examples and keywords is shown below Category Examples, key words (verbs), and technologies for learning (activities) Remembering : Recall or retrieve previous learned information. Examples :                Recite a policy. Quote prices from memory to a customer. Recite the safety rules. Key Words : defines describes identifies knows labels lists matches names outlines recalls recognizes reproduces selects states Technologies :                        book marking, flash cards, rote learning based on repetition, reading Understand...

Individuals’ learning capacity is governed by genetic factors,  cognitive factors and environmental factors. The interplay  relationship among these factors are shown in the following Figure.  To certain extent the learning capacity an individual is increased  through learning style, learning strategy, learning approach,   instructional support, technological support and epistemological  belief.  For the higher achievement clinical research is to be  combined along with the support of health, counselling, yoga,  meditation practices, life science practices, herbal therapy and  medication.

Type the following in google search box to see the different games and have fun. 1. do a barrel roll 2. google gravity  (click the first link and it will shower the letters) 3. Flip a coin 4. Roll a die 5. Click the dianoser image when there is no internet and play the game 6. for fidget spinner in the google type spinner for the number spin you can toggle to number 7. type fun facts in google search box to learn unlimited tit bits 8. Pack Man to play the game 9. atari breakout (google images) (you can play only in PC) 10. tic tac toe 

Cognitive psychology is related to the study of mental process like perception, attention, reasoning, thinking, problem solving, memory, learning, language and emotion, whereas, educational psychology is the study of how the human brain is trained in educational settings, effectiveness of educational interventions, psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools and organizations.                    Cognitive development of the learner is directly connected with learning. Theoretical framework in cognitivism deem that learning is a result of mental processes, namely, perception, thinking, memory, language and information processing, problem solving and decision-making resulting in learning behaviour. The outcome of interactions among the billions of neurons in the brain and nervous system is called ‘the mind’. Learning experiences are translated into electrical and chemical signa...