English is a very beautiful language. But in recent times people’s laziness has destroyed its beauty to a great extent. It’s unbelievable how the trend of making words shorter emerged and succeeded in becoming an addiction to mankind. It is universally believed that the fashion of texting has led to the disruption of English language [...]
Tag Archives: Education
The one laptop per child organization aims at educating Ethiopia!
Illiteracy is rampant in many parts of the world mainly due to low economic status of the majority of the population. Many efforts have been done to rid the society of this evil. One such attempt has been made by the One Laptop per Child Organization which distributed fully loaded tablets in two villages of [...]
Make the best use of Microsoft innovation centers in your city!
Microsoft has put a step forward to help the students become creative with Microsoft Innovation Centers being set up in different parts of India. 75 MICs are already part of the program and Microsoft aims to increase the number to hundred in the next two years. Very soon you will see the impact of the [...]
The 9 yr old boy who made India proud – attends college in U.S
Tanishq Abraham is a 9 year old Indian American boy has become quite a sensation over the internet. This child prodigy attracted intense media attention after he joined the Mensa programme (largest and oldest high IQ society in the world) for gifted children at the age of four and a half years where he achieved [...]
Wasting time watching cute pictures online – not anymore!
Yes, if you’ve felt guilty watching cute wallpapers of kittens or babies and thinking to yourself that you’ve wasted a lot of time then that’s about to change! According to a study called the ‘Power of Kawaii’, conducted by The Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University in Japan, viewing cute images promotes [...]
Education for Moms
All around the world, women are now seeking the equality they truly deserve, doesn’t matter the field in focus, women know how to get what they want and are not willing to hide it. While this is a phenomenon well in its existence, fewer women look at education in a positive light, especially after having [...]
Burdening School curriculums = Student Suicides
It is not a rare phenomenon when a parent is confronted by their child saying they don’t want to go to school. They are tired of the burden of homework, the stress associated with getting the highest rank in class, and all that comes with the revised overly exhausting curriculum’s.
Facebook hosts Hackathon in partnership with Gates Foundation – Aim to hack the Education Technology!
On Thursday Facebook hosted the “EdTech”, a Hackathon in partnership with the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates foundation. Kicking off the foundation’s College Knowledge Challenge, an initiative worth $2.5 million to encourage developers to make applications that improve the college process.
Today’s Cheaters, tomorrow’s Role Models
Have exams lost their essence or can students just cheat and pass? Who will know what they’ve done once they’ve earned their degrees, and become professionals in various fields. This is the shocking truth of today’s education systems.
Discrimination at Educational Institutes needs to end!
Discriminative activity on basis of gender, race, caste, color or creed is an ideology we’ve been fighting for ages now. But even then, it still persists, however the more devastating fact is its existence in school across the world.