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Learning/Unlearning with Child

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Learning/unlearning with child An interesting conversation that happened between Aarav,  Urvi and myself. It made me learn, rather unlearn. The process of exploration is wonderful. I owe this knowledge to ISP (Infant Siddha Program- The art of Parenting) and my current pursuit of school psychology ❤ We envision to implement similar processes of exploration as a part of our learning maxim (Purposefully, I am not calling it as teaching maxim).. So, the incidence of exploration goes like this... One day, when I shared with Urvi and Aarav that we used to buy xxxx brand biscuit packet at Rs. 2 when I was of your age, now the same packet comes for Rs 10 or even more. Urvi's curiosity made her immediately ask- Prices keep on increasing like that? I said, yes..She again asked- but why do prices keep on increasing? I said they may decrease also. She again asked- why do they increase or decrease anyway? I was thrilled with this curiosity, which I did not have at that age. Instead

CREATED Learning Space: Explore, Exposure and Experience

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Dear all Welcome to the second blog of the series. In last blog, we shared 'What is CREAT ED Learning Space' and what is it's purpose. We also talked about our blended learning methodology of 'Explore, Exposure and Experience' . As promised in the earlier blog, we wanted to share  this methodology  in detail. Let us first try to understand three distinct dimensions of one's learning. As in, how learning happens in any human being from the perspective of  development.  The very first dimension is 'Explore' .   In this particular dimension, the child or any adult tries to explore the surrounding, what is there for him to learn, understand and grasp through his sensory systems. As an infant, he will observe, taste, smell, touch and hear. As he grows up, he will utilize these sensory means to read, observe others practicing or doing. He would want to mimic and repeat what his sibling, parents, his peers and his teachers are doing. He will contin

What is CREATED Learning Space

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                                                Founders:  Pranjali Kothavade     Kishore Gaikwad               M.Tech. (Electrical)     M.Tech. (Mfg)   Dear all, Gudhi Padwa/Ugadi/Vishu/Baisakhi/Bih u (Hindu New year) wishes to you all. On this auspicious and beautiful occasion, we wanted to start our blogspot as a space for everyone of us to express and share our learnings, experiences, feedback with regard to  our new initiative, our new project called 'CREATED Learning Space'. However, before we do that, it is very much necessary for all of us to know what is ' CREAT ED Learning Space ' basically 😊 So, let us ourselves start with our first blog, where we wanted to share our thoughts and inspiration behind initiating our vision project recently. We are a team of  curious and enthusiastic parents (first) and then engineers turned school psychologists turned entrepreneurs (later). We (Pranjali Kothavade and Kishore Gaikwad) are the co-founders of  CREAT ED   Learnin