LEARNING IS LIFE

 “It is right move to involve girls into technology literacy from early grades," said the educator-researcher Dr Lalit Kishore whose paper  “Catch Them Young: Attracting Girls to Technology’ of Dr Kishore was accepted for GASAT 9 Conference held in Ghana in 1999.  In the paper, Dr Inshore argued that girls should be introduced to low-technology experiences in primary grades itself and cooperative learning strategies should be used for teaching science and technology integrated modules.   Low-technology experience with min-tools, material science based craft activities and of dynamic folk toys can be helpful in primary grades since this will   make girls become confident and involved learners in technology literacy as they move into primary school and beyond.   Technology literacy provides girls to to share views and contributes to promoting their inclusion and participation in the learning process  

Acronym STEM stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.” In education, STEM has emerged a subject that includes mostly multi-disciplinary project-based learning where students and subject teachers work together to solve real world problems. A felt global urgency exists to improve STEM education  which is now driven by environmental and social impacts of the fast changing technologies, knowledge explosion and employability skills in the twenty-first century.  In many countries, the STEM educational reforms are being attempted to work out a STEM education conceptual framework in authentic contexts.  It has been felt that students often get disinterested in isolatory  and compartmentalized science and mathematics learning with crosscutting concepts and connect to present day real-world applications.  According to Thomas and Watters (2015, p. 42), the current global challenges as 'climate change, overpopulation, resource management, agricultural production, health, b

HAIKU ON  MECHANICAL AND SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCES World conditions us To the transient physical - body and ego We externalise - We chase desires, gains and fame - get trapped in rat race Materialist's life- Only masked show off of joy We delude real self World conditions us - to mechanical, forced living - least intelligence Spiritual life is top-most intelligent life life with inner-self Human's inner self - Formless innerself that lives for love, kindness, peace, bliss SI's ultimate Develop through practice of equanimity  Relate to spirit Not to mind and its ego live a  field-free life 

BHAGAVAD GITA SANSKRIT:VERSE 6.23 तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम्। स निश्चयेन योक्तव्यो योगोऽनिर्विण्णचेतसा।।   ENGLISH TRANSLATION: SWAMI MUKUNDANAND That state of severance from union with misery is known as Yog. This Yog should be resolutely practiced with determination free from despair.   HAIKU: MEANING Must know all of us Despite misery and pain Yog's - honed steady mind   PINOY HAIKU: IMPLICATION Yoga's Determined practice That's done with Even, optimistic, focused mind

  Today, on April 29, the International Dance Day is being celebrated to highlight the purpose of dance as an expressive art form performed through rhythmic and flowing movements of the body and its limbs.   Dance is said to be a part of age-old ceremonies, rituals, celebrations and entertainment right from the earliest human civilizations.   Also, during ancient times dance was used as a precursor to ecstatic trance states in healing rituals which still continue. Here is my acrostic on DANCE which was picked up from merinews,com n 2019 by the dance day official website D: Depictive and rhythmic body movement A: Art form as N: Non-verbal C: Communication to E: Express emotions, ideas or a story in performance setting   According the CBSE’s document ‘Guidelines for Art Integrated Learning’, the schools must use the cross-curricular approach to provide meaningful experiential learning by collaborating various art forms including dance to teach the subject matter for both co

 Bringing dance integrated learning to schools: Special on International Dance Day ~Lalit Kishore Created and coordinated by International Theatre Institute (ITI) in 1982, the International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th April which is also the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre who is creator of modern ballet. The noted dancer, Marianela NÚÑEZ of Argentina has urged that artists must  share the joy of dance with others According to the ITI, the aim of the annual observance is 'to celebrate dance, revel in the universality of this art form, cross all political, cultural and ethnic barriers, and bring people together with a common language - dance.' The ITI has urged the world community to 'see the value and importance of the art form “dance” by recognising its value and realising its potential for economic growth. Some educators and therapists have stresses the need for art-integrated learning with centrality of dance in early grades since dance can work as

  VERSE 2.48 योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय। सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते।। *** HAIKU Perform your duties Be not attached to outcomes Enact mindfully *** I mplications Deep practice equanimity Practice field independence, be even-minded, remain unperturbed, be neutral witness Practice attentiveness, be one with the task at the moment Practice watching things and events with wonderment

    QUOTES   I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there. ~ Billy Corgan    Quieten the mind and the soul will speak.  ~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati ·   We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.        – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  ·   You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you. ~ George Alexiou     You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God (Supreme Spirit) is within you.  ~ Julia Cameron HAIKU Humans are divine Humans are spiritual beings In material world *** To regain our soul We must practice love, kindness And non-duality *** Hone self-awareness With relentless bliss quest To realise pure self *** Purify your mind By shunning desires, ego - Pure mind is rea

  QUOTES ON UNITY OF SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY Science and Spirituality are two ends and you have to keep yourself at the middle. Science guys will call it, equilibrium. ~ Prerak Trivedi Science tells the way to live life better, while, spirituality tells the way to make life better ~Santosh Kumar Pyasa The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both ~Carl Sagan The scientific study of the dynamic relationship between 'Self' and the universe can help plan the scientific steps to enrich the 'Self.' The execution of these steps can gift the human race a beautiful future. Only the healthy 'Self' has the power to create a healthy environment. ~ Rakhi Roy Halder   INSPIRED HAIKU   Science finds truth of The physical-sensual world That’s never ending *** Science assumes that All found knowledge’s tentative Meant to be refined *** Physical-sensual world That is transient and passing So

  5S Mantra for realising one's true self or existential truth 5S MANTA S1: Self-observation or mindfulness with focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing, thinking and feeling in the moment without being reactive or judgemental S2: Self-reflection  by fostering innate the ability to witness and evaluate own cognitive (higher order thinking), emotional, (feeling and senses and behavioural (doing, acting) processes to attain spontaneity in reflective-awareness and reflective consciousness to keep yourself on correct path S3: Self-learning and self-discovery of knowing innate immense potentials and practicing those to hone insightfulness, revelation or intuitiveness by challenging oneself to explore new things and possibilities - ability to stay ever new S4: Self-actualization or pro-action and selfless action after acquiring high degree of ability and being spontaneous in it as one's second nature S5: Self-realisation or recognition of divinity within or real

  Quotes on conditioning and inspired haiku on unconditioned self   QUOTES One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. ~Aldous Huxley Conditioning limits the range in which you can express your true sensuality. ~ Lebo Grand “Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.” ~ Emily McDowell Our conscious and unconscious responses to all the challenges of our environment - intellectual, emotional, outward and inward - all these are the action of conditioning. Language is conditioning; all thought is the action, the response of conditioning. ~J Krishnamurti   INSPIRED HAIKU When evils're undone When mind is unconditioned You behold Divine *** Necessary’s undoing Of conditioned intellect - World-forced cognition *** When unconditioned - When mind is pure awareness Truth reveals itself *** Purify yourself That is pre

  State of maths teaching at senior secondary level and remedial suggestions for maths teachers: A short note A feedback from parents with maths background and a focus group discussion with three math researcher-educators revealed the following: Conceptual understanding of senior secondary maths is being totally ignored. Teachers often demonstrate their own computation skills in solving sums, stress algorithm and writing-intensive proofs without including logic. Hardly any attention is being paid to concept attainment and language of mathematics Focus group suggested three steps that the school must take to proper teaching of maths at senior secondary level ·        Readiness worksheets for linkage to previous knowledge and STEM relationship ·       Emphasis on concept attainment model or conceptual understanding of math and language of math through weekly assignments to (i) explain the concepts learnt during the week and   (ii) terminology and vocabulary through guided reading o

 ABCs of Spiritual Intelligence: ABCs OF SI: A: Adaptive application of the non-material and transcendent aspect s of one's existence, leading to such outcomes as deep existential reflection, enhancement of meaning, recognition of a transcendent self, and mastery of spiritual states. (King and Teresa 2009) B:Basing personal and work life on 12 principles as Self-awareness; Spontaneity; Being vision and value-led; Holism; Compassion; Celebration of diversity; Field independence; Humility: Tendency to ask fundamental "Why?" questions; Ability to reframe; Positive use of adversity; Sense of vocation (Danah Zohar, 2000) C:Composed of five innate potential s as transcendence of the physical and material; experiencing higher states of consciousness; sanctification of everyday experiences; utilization of spiritual resources to solve problems; living a virtuous life (Emmons, 2000) REFERENCES Emmons, Robert A. (January 2000). Is Spirituality an Intelligence? Motivation, Cognition

  REALI(SE) Acronym: 5   aspects of spirituality INTRODUCTION In spirituality, humans are seen as realising beings beyond thinking, feeling and doing individual beings.   In other words, humans are basically embodied spiritual beings and they have to seek and strive to realise this Truth as real purpose of life. REALI(SE) ACRONYM R: Real is the one that is eternal and infinite (spaceless, form-less, unphysical), timeless (unborn, self-manifest, was-is-and will be, all-pervading) Absolute One – Supreme Soul E:   Eternity of soul is meant to be realised that is beyond body-mind-senses combine - it is revealed A: Ask questions about your and world’s existence; birth-n-death; transient world and life; conditioning by world to evils of mind, purpose of perishable life L:   Learning all the time with humility and equanimity deeming final Truth will always remain in the Unknown I: Ignorance eradication by looking at the illusions, myths, dualities, desires,   gratifications

 Materialistic worldly life: Quotes and inspired haiku QUOTES   It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ~ Bertrand Russell   Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives. ~@Mokokoma Mokhonoana   Economy that rewards selfishness, is but a glorified criminal offense. ~ Abhijit Naskar,   Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!  ~Elisabeth Elliot   INSPIRED HAIKU We are, in fact, souls - We're dormant embodied souls That is reality *** Humans forget Truth They yield to body and mind To get conditioned *** We're trained, skilled To make a living to feed Body-mind-senses *** We live and vanish As mere field dependent beings Unaware of Truth  

  SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY QUOTES Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire (spirit), a dream, a vision. ~ Muhammad Ali   I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.   ~Michael Phelps   Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. ~Ken Doherty   INSPIRED HAIKU   Mental stress, pressure Competitive anxiety Kill sporting spirit *** Spirit revival Requires focus, imagery, Intuitive aptness *** Problems are mental Symptoms are physical ones - Deep treat the causes *** Go back to Gita To find solution, boost up For soulful playing *** Strengthen your spirit Visualise and meditate To make mind cheerer

  The parable of three blind men and an elephant in Jainsim There were three blind men living in a village who had never heard of an elephant. When a groom riding an elephant came to the village they heard about the animal, They expressed their desire to touch the elephant and imagine it and tell one another what was an elephant like. Elephant was big and each of them touched it to learn and imagine what the elephant was like.   Each blind man felt a different part of the animal's body and imagined its shape. Then they described the animal based on their limited experience and each one's elephant was different.   They soon started calling one another liars and came to blows. They were separated and whisked away for the marriage procession to move on. (Note: The parable has been modified for three stage learning from it) A. Which of the following statements do you agree to and why? 1. People often blinded by their vanity think that their limited subjective experience

 Merge science and spirituality to live a sane life: Quotes and inspired Haiku ~Lalit Kishore QUOTES Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual ..The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. ~Carl Sagan The individual, if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast-like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human society, which directs his material

  Self-awareness through self-reflection is way to foster spiritual intelligence QUOTES When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible. ~Tina Lifford At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~Lao Tzu The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself, you will always be someone else. Become yourself. ~Myles Munroe INSPIRED HAIKU Hone self-awareness Know cognitive functions Get their first hand feel  *** Self-knowledge success - Spiritual learning outcome With self-reflection  *** Be aware of self That can direct mind and senses Self-reflective wit  **** Work out brain muscle – With daily self-reflection Till you become apt  

  Science and spirituality together are capable of creating a world order of peace and prosperity for all: Quotes and inspired haiku   QUOTES:   The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift ~ Albert Einstein   The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. ~ Carl Sagan   The consciousness of the 'Self' makes us calm. The 'Self' emerges as a mirror within us and helps us realize reality in its true form. It creates a vision and helps us feel the truth underneath the visible fact. The language of reality lying in deep is very different. Only the conscious 'Self' can understand it in silence....I have pinned my hope on quantum physics, which is gradually moving forward to understand the deeper world's realities ~ Rakhi Roy Halder   Inspired Haiku   Spiritual person - One who uses potential

  International Mother Earth Day-2024: UN's call and inspired haiku The UN, on the occasion of the International Mother Earth Day-2024, urged, "Let's remind ourselves - more than ever - that we need a shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet. Let’s promote harmony with nature and the Earth. Join the global movement to restore our world!"   INSPIRED HAIKU  The Earth's common home For all living-n- inert things Better,   save-n- guard *** Bio-diversity - That's our wherewithal and breath - Life support system *** Shield eco-systems ! Conserve bio-diversity! Reverse climate change! *** Stop, end corruption End deforestation, mining Avoid ponzy schemes *** Stop greed driven life Go for sustainability And 'needonomics'

QUOTE: The understanding of the false is the discovery of the true. To see the false as the false is arduous. We look at the false through comparison, through the measure of thought; and can the false be seen as the false through any thought process? Is not thought itself conditioned and so false?   ~J Krishnamurti INSPIRED HAIKU Experiential beings – Thinking-feeling-doing-learning beings – That‘s what humans   are              *** Our experiences – Those are physical-sensual Subjective, transient *** Stick not to transient It ‘s not The Absolute One ! It’s not Eternal ! *** Be not ignorant Be not vain of part-knowing That’s darkness, falsehood *** Transcend experience Transcend little false knowing Find Truth, life’s transient  

  ABCs of minimalist photography  Quote By stripping a photo down to the bare essentials, minimalist photographers show how powerful simplicity can be. There’s no clutter to distract viewers from the main subject. They see exactly what the photographer wants them to see. ~STEPH NELSON ABCs A: Applying limited compositional elements and stressing simplicity and to begin with  practice doing product minimalist photography at home B: Bird eye view of singular object or subject with bare essentials around but with law of thirds C: Combine the subject with a lot of negative space, larger exposure time or at times zoom in to remove the clutter in a horizontal or vertical frame