LEARNING IS LIFE

Easter 2024: Non-poem inspired by the message of Pope Francis   Easter - Testimony of faith In hoping against all hope In the world full of Struggles and sufferings Divisions and conflicts *** Cleanse your minds Of hatred, revenge 'n violence To defend human dignity Without distinction of Religion, ethnicity, nationality  *** Awaken and renew 'N self-actualize To rise anew To regain peace and prosterity To redeem humanity 

  The deadliest sin of screen addiction in modern times: Non-poem   Sins are - Those unanalysed dispositions 'n habits That makes you hardcore materialists - Physical-sensual beast - And separate you From in-divinity and existential truth *** In this fast-changing technological times - In this digital era - Screen addiction is the latest, deadliest sin That breeds other deadly sins - The sin of self-obsession The sin of selfishness The sin of squandering The sin of sucking-up 'n lusting The sin of self-indulgence The sin of self-glorification The sin of social inequity *** Screen addiction destroys - Destroys physical wellbeing Destroys mental wellbeing Destroys emotional wellbeing Destroys social wellbeing Destroys spiritual well-being To make you devilish To make you devastating sinner    

  LIVE THE EASTER-SPIRIT: QUOTES AND NON-POEM   QUOTES Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal and new life.  ~ Janine di Giovanni  The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.  ~ Kate McGahan  The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.”      ~ Siobhan Shaw  Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life. ~Gertrude Stein  EASTER: NON-POEM   Get humane, humble 'n holy - Reflect on Jesus' sacrifice on the cross For our sins 'n follies gross Get unconditional To be new-you *** Reflect on Jesus' resurrection - Renew, recreate yourself Purify your mind of evils By fasting, praying, meditating By embracing simplicity 'n minimalism By meditating 'n self-reflecting *** Purify senses 'n mind Of gluttony 'n lust Of avarice 'n anger O...

  Spiritual way to life: Short note, quotes and implication SHORT NOTE According to noted thinkers and philosophers, spiritual or existential, philosophical and religious knowledge is related to subjective abstract thinking about life and its purpose that is mindful, soulful and reflective in nature. When it comes to highly abstract existential topics, experiential learning related to self-awareness, self-actualization and self-realization offers a complementary approach to understanding the deeply abstract aspects of life and its real purpose. Often spiritual learning is deemed as the process of raising one's own consciousness level assuming oneself as a non-physical entity or soul as a component of the eternal all pervading supreme soul leading to enhanced soulfulness to live and act with a state of pure-awareness. OSHO QUOTES Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be compl...

  Art Integrated Learning - AIL: Understanding the innovative approach to learning through an acrostic and action researching ~Lalit Kishore According to the NCERT, Art Integrated Learning (AIL) is a 'teaching-learning model' in  which various 'art forms' become the 'mediums of teaching-learning process' for understanding 'concepts within any subject of the school curriculum.' It is an experiential learning framework making use of various artm for an equitable learning environment for all learners by utilizing basics of various art-forms as access points or entry to lessons or revising lesson. AIL Acrostic: Understanding Art Integrated Learning  A: A for Adaptation : Adaptation of art elements (visual-spatial presentation, balance and beauty) of various art-forms consciously in transaction of various subject areas, classroom instructions and lessons I: I for Inventiveness and innovation : "Inventive and constructivist learning pedagogy which is base...

  Drama is central to theatre education. Here are a graphic and acrostic on DRAMA that explains what drama consists and how to integrate it into classroom processes GRAPHIC Acrostic on Drama D:Dialogue delivery with voice modulation, spoken word artfulness and memory and spoken communication skills R: Readiness for timming, eye contact, body language, facial expression  A:Attitude of self-discipling, cooperation, politeness. professionalism M: Movement, posture, gait training A: Ability to take directions, coordinate, be flexible and rehearse

 साधन-हैं-इंद्रियां /  मनोविकास-की, ज्ञान-सृजन-की  /  चिंतन-मनन-कौशल, बुद्धि-विवेक-प्रतिभा, सायास-पाओ  *** दासता /  इंद्रिय-विषयों-की, मनोकामनाओं-की /   भौतिक-भोगवाग-जगाए , पशु-बनाए, दानव-बनाए  *** भोग-त्यागो /  इच्छाएँ-न्यून-करो, संयमी-बनो /  बुद्धिमान-बनो, विवेकशील-बनो, आर्य-बनो  *** मन-को-साधो /  ज्ञान-सृजन-में, सद-कर्मों-में /  विवेकशील, सुशील आर्य-बनो 

In the modern context marked by knowledge explosion and exponential growth of fragmented information, the deductive learning that presents the summary of a topic as generalization or concise concept first followed of the elaboration by the person with content mastery. In other words, it is the Guru-Centred method that starts with generalisation or over-all concept first, which is followed by specific examples and part-wise explanations, activities and experiences with reasoning and critical-creative thinking.  It has been seen that most spiritualists who have mastered the scriptures just rattle out the content seemingly as a 'recitational talent' which produces a feeling of awe and blind followership. Mature educated people the learn more the the decoding the concise information through deductive logic and critical-creative thinking QUOTES It has only been very slowly that scientific method, which seeks to reach principles inductively from observation of particular facts, has r...

 Library: Quotes and Acrostic QUOTES Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. ~Sidney Sheldon  Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities. ~R. David Lankes   In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim. ~Linton Weeks Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. ~Sidney Sheldon LIBRARY ACROSTIC ~Lalit Kishore L: Learning support system through collection and circulation of book and non-book resources in and institution to enhance knowledge by accessing relevant information and processing if  in institutions and organizations I: Integrating place for classroom learning with extended sources of ...

  QUOTE:  In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves. ~Shekhar Kapur (https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/shekhar-kapur-quotes)  HAIKU ON DUALITIES  ~Lalit Kishore All dualities – Movements of the mind they are. - Dualities are strife. * You should not seek, Nor you should cultivate goodness – Shun dualities - Be ! * Never make choices They are translation of past - Duality breeders * Mind's bestowed to us For single cosmic quest to know - Shun all dualities.

  Work integrated learning in educational institutions via action research A lesson study as a component of action research promotes and develops teachers' professional skills and enables them to work professionally in project mode to construct knowledge themselves through hands on experiences. With emergent needs due to fast changing technology and diversity of learners, educational institutions must get into action-learning mode by integrating the professional work of their staff to new challenges. If the institutional leadership and management puts stake in action learning strategy for continuous development, it turns the institution into a dynamic mode and emerges as a learning organization through micro action learning projects. Participatory action research and micro-project trials of designed intervention have the capability of turing the work-place functionaries into pathfinders and problem solvers. If action research and lesson studies are integrated in educational institu...

  Towards multi-intelligences based teaching: Haiku and bibliography  HAIKU Learn, know through nine ways To make learning inclusive, - Value diversity !  *** Practice MI steps Make lessons experiential - Accommodate all !  *** All children are smart Some verbal-visual-logic smart - Hands-on, group, lone smart  *** A few're music smart - Inter-intra-soulful smart - Include them lessons  *** Try lesson studies To become teacher apt in Multi-dimensions     Bibliography Armstrong, T.(2009). Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, ASCD Bowe, A (2013). Musical Intelligence as Creative Flow: lulu.com Lazear, D. G. (1992). Teaching for Multiple Intelligences Lazear, D. G. (2000).The Intelligent Curriculum: Using Multiple Intelligences to Develop Your Students' Full Potential, Zephyr Press Michel, P. (2013). The Role of the Musical Intelligence in Whole Brain Education Rossiter, T. (1999) Musical In...

Use alap style rendering of micro and mini poems to make classroom linked with musical intelligence, says linguist and musician  TP Singh "For non-music use of music in the form of alap practice through six-word poem rendering gives it the touch of classical performance. Alap practice with improvisation is quite capable of developing long term memory of keywords or vocabulary of topic learning by kids," said Ambala based linguist and musician TP Singh adding that such practice with the words of any text develops musical intelligence and leads to voice clarity of practitioners through improvisations. He informed for that the micro-poems with textual words and phrases as alap rendering should be done schematically through 'vistar' technique by making rendering possible through fluid rhythms by combining words and repetition of words or creating language patterns. He endorsed the use of six-word poems, haiku, mini non-poems and adapted cinquain through of Alap improvisat...

Schools need to introduce big books at preschool stage for early   cognitive development, suggest research paper authors at conference on library and information science "Big books are capable of providing one-on-one exciting and emotionally bonding experience for school entrants at the preschool level, provided they are become the part of classroom library and relate to life skills and daily life activities to create self-awareness,   love of books and reading. The use of big books created by the class teachers have been found to wean away toddlers from screen-addiction of mobile which is wrongfully received and leads to social isolation of kids at home and their cognitive and physical decline. Our research as an experimental study proves that te the teacher created big books are more relevant rather than the commercially produced multi-coloured big books having activities, poems and stories," said the lead author Dr Lalit Kishore of the outstanding paper   on the sid...

  Understanding the laws of library science with acronym 'BEEST" and their relevance The five fundamental Laws of Library Science, proposed by Dr S. R. Ranganathan in 1931, work as the operating principles of a library system and provide the theoretical or philosophical foundation of the growth in knowledge of and research in library science . Furthermore, the  five laws of library science also lay the norms, percepts, and guidelines to librarianship as a profession as well as provide bases for research in the area of the library science and its perpetual relevance The five fundamental laws of library science as stated by  Ranganathan  are can be understood by the acronym BEEST B: B for 'Books Are For Use' E: First E for 'Every Reader His/Her Book' E: Second E for  'Every Book Its Reader' S: S for 'Save The Time Of The Reader' T: T for "The Library Is A Growing Organism' These laws have professionalized the roles and function of librari...

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 Significance of big books in development of toddlers and pre-primary children The process of big book reading to small kids besides improving their sight vocabulary, also make children attentive and develops them as individuals with enhanced self-concept. Further, children gain visual-literacy along with language-literacy through organized interaction with big books which are culturally contextual.  According to EarlyMoments.com (2023) for teachers the big books work as a rich source of activities that promote reading and meet curriculum objectives such as activating prior knowledge, modelling the thinking process, meaninfulful self-talk, tracking print, and encouraging prediction skills besides the linguistic and creative activities. It has been observed that the proper use of big books promotes a stronger self-discipline, longer attention span, and better memory of small children' ( Benefits & Importance of Reading to Children, Children's Bureau of Southern California, ...

  Limerick on Saint Shri A trader-of-faith called Saint Shri Despite nefarious acts, he walked free **** Cocky saint had flush 'ashram' for fling In tow with grand-n-great fan following *** But he earned bad karmic accounts fee

 Revival of limericks with improvisation as spoken word poetry Limerick has had a well-established hip-hop scene long before the rise of rap and other word art forms with musicality in toe> However, limericks continue to the intellectual hip-hop with elements of satire on social and political issues related to treatment to the poor and deprived people. With rising popularity of rap, different kinds of rap styles are evolving in different languages of the world.  Of late social activists have used rapping to voice caplistic and political oppression through bouncers, police brutality, hypocrisy of the corporate sector and rich people, racial oppression, inequity, exclusion, gangsterism, drug abuse, tech addiction etc. Some teachers have tried teaching of math and science concepts through content-based rap lyrics by involving students in writing lyrics and presenting them through rap aw spoken word style. Some intellectuals have start telling their thoughts and views on social...

For classroom use, teachers at times must provide the experience of writing and presenting limericks in rap style since they are short, subtle, rhyming, witty, bold and bouncy. Since, limericks combine rhythm and rhyming, they make the message easy to memorize.  Limericks, like all poetic forms, have a set of rules that you need to follow. The rules for a limerick are fairly simple. A limerick is is a five line long poem in which the lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another, while lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other. These days, limericks poetry is being performed as spoken word art and rap style is most popular An example:  .Title: Tech mania and screen addictions are new deadly sins: A short note and a limerick  Tech mania and screen addiction are being viewed as new mental diseases by the psychiatrists and modern sins by the various religions.  However, the tech mania has spread globally with on-line buying, on-line working and on-line learning a norm. Consequentl...

  Elements of Spoken Word Poetry that classroom instructors can make to enliven their professional work ~ Lalit Kishore   Since the son a topic is the poetry that is written on a page with rich poetic phrases ans lines but performed in front of an audience. However, to turn it into a performing art it should have the following elements. So, it should be (a) rhythmic, (b) rhetorical, (c) free associations, (d) slant rhyming, (e) word play, (f) slang, (g) tempo, (f) loudness, (g) musical tone, (h) theatre and movement, (i) language arts, and (j) improvisation Though, it long practiced art form rooted in the oral traditions of many cultures as a folk art with a conversation as storey telling going with rhythm, folk music and theatre. "There seems to be a bit of a divide, though, between the academic world and the spoken word movement. Most colleges don’t “teach” the art of spoken word. It’s usually something you have to experience on your own out in the community," holds (Ny...

  Know about spoken word art and and its use for classroom disciplinary learning ~Lalit Kishore The ‘Spoken Word Art’ (SWA) is the oral performing   art which   words are muscialiised with variation of tone,   pitch, rhythm, pauses and feelings incorporated by including the elements of language arts. Rhyming is underplayed but rhythmic loud rendering is given prominence. The beginners often write their verses as non-poems, practice and perform in some folk style, rap or hip-hop. It is more like story-telling with elements of music and language art since it is performing poetry linked to folk and cultural oral traditions. Currently, rap is the most popular spoken word art form or spoken poetry inspired by earlier spoken word works and styles used by black Americans My own experience informs that SWA can be applied to rendering of   academic topics with both cognitive and non-cognitive benefits such as attentiveness, good-feel and long-term memory. It has ...

  Staying Relevant through curiosity driven trans-disciplinary research: Quote and 3-I Mantra QUOTE Transdisciplinary research is responsive to public needs. Methodologically, transdisciplinary research follows responsive or iterative methodologies, requires innovation, creativity, and flexibility, and often employs participatory research design strategies. Transdisciplinarity has the potential to greatly enhance public scholarship. Transdisciplinarity is an approach to conducting research. Transdisciplinarity research practices are issue or problem centred, and prioritize the problem at the centre of research over disciplines- specifics concerns, theories, or methods ~ Japee, G. P. (n.d.). Transdisciplinary Research - A Paradigm Shift in Research EcoSystem. Journal of Xi' an Shiyou University, Natural Science Edition. https://www.xisdxjxsu.asia/V16-8-R12.pdf 3-I Mantra I-1: Integrating and synthesising knowledge and researching to manage emergent situations and contexts fo...

Deep practice self-reflection and meditation for ‘spanda’ state of consciousness this Shavratri: Quote and Haiku QUOTE This stirring of Self-awareness (Spiritual stirring) is ‘spanda’ (Cosmic energy). It makes Absolute Consciousness vibrant and expansive, and it is this activity that is the basic source of all creative manifestation. Everything that exists, sentient and insentient, is a result of this stirring of spanda ~ B. N. Pandit in 'Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism' INSPIRED HAIKU Seek Truth of your life - Existential reality – Be self-reflective *** Seek, strive, deep practice Self reflection, ‘n meditate To rouse inner-self *** Persevere, deep learn   Rise to higher consciousness - The intuitive state *** Self-reflect on-n-on To stir you self-awareness In tune with reality  

 शिवरात्रि: उद्धरण और सूक्ष्म कविताएं    उद्धरण : " हम आदियोगी को शिव कहते हैं, क्योंकि उन्होंने उस आयाम को जाना है जिसे हम शिव या "जो नहीं है" कहते हैं। 'जो नहीं है’ और जो इस बात को जानता है, दोनों के बीच कोई अंतर नहीं है।...जिसे हम शिव कहते हैं, वह अस्तित्व का गैर-भौतिक आयाम है, जो वास्तव में ब्रह्मांड का सबसे बड़ा आयाम है।"  ~ सद्‌गुरु सूक्ष्म कविताएं : अक्षय,  / अनादि , अनन्त   / शिव - आदियोगी-हैं, सोऽहं-हैं    ***   शिव -  / परमात्मा-हैं, परमपिता-हैं ,  / मानवमात्र उनकी संतान-हैं   *** अन्धकार -/ भौतिकता, अज्ञान  -/ शुद्ध-मन-में विराजें सोऽहं

 महिला दिवस विशेष: स्त्रैण-भाव पर सूक्ष्म कविताएं  ... सूक्ष्म कविताएं  ... हैं - भावनाएं / स्त्री - की कर्म - भूमी / भावनाओं - को सशक्त बनाओ *** स्त्रैण - भाव / स्वाभाविक , दैविक - / इसे   समतुल्य   सम्मान - दो *** स्त्रैण - भाव - हैं   - / सृजन , पोषण / वात्सल्य , सहकार , सौम्यता *** छोडो / पुरुष प्रधानता / लैंगिक   भेद - भाव छोडो *** लैंगिक - विविधता - को / सम्मान - दो ,  समभावी - बनो /  विविधता - में एकता लाओ *** शिक्षा - का / नारीकरण करो / शिक्षा-को भाव-प्रधान  बना ओ