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Understanding STEAM Education

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Steam an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics is experienced naturally while children are busy playing, exploring and trying new things. Their keen investigation and inquiries about little things leads exploring, learning and experimenting with new ideas ultimately enhancing their Steam skills. It has been observed that there is a very close knit relation between early Steam skill sets and the future success of children. Steam education can be incorporated and introduced to a toddler as early as possible. It is not about teaching mathematical equations or getting the tables mugged up. It depends upon how often you engage your child in various and small activities with you. A child learns while mixing up colors, playing building blocks, identifying various flash cards and similar activities which we do not look upon the way they should be. Parents, teachers and educators can foster and enhance these Steam skills by providing them with material...

Things You Need to Know Before Online Entrance Examination

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The ever increasing competition with the increasing number of students appearing for any examination has diverted the routes of pen and paper methodology to the digital one. It is no surprise that most of the top entrance examinations for higher education as well as jobs are embracing the online mode of conducting their exams. Transcending towards digitization has almost abandoned the conventional paper pen format to the online examination ways. However these disperse from the tradition methods of writing an exam have left many students bewildered. They find themselves into most anxious state when it comes to appearing for an online examination. Therefore, here we have brought a few tips for the students which will guide them and enable them to overcome their fear. Get Familiar If you are new to the online exams format, it is very important to get accustomed to the system. Spend considerable time on the computers or laptops so as to avoid small glitches during the exam...

How to Enhance Girls’ Interests in Steam Education

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It has been a while that STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) has gained momentum and is being adapted by various schools as a part of their curriculum. STEAM is being looked forward as an instrument to carve the skill sets of students and build a critical and scientific approach towards life. Amidst the present scenario, the condition which seems to be miserable is the ratio of girls to boys taking up the STEAM education . A huge gender inequality paradox remains to be a matter of concern. It has been witnessed that girls are underrepresented in STEM and STEAM occupations. As per a report, they just make 14.4%  of the working population in Stem in the UK, despite being about half of the workforce . So what should be the considerable step to bring a light to this grim situation?  Here we discuss upon a few tips for the educators so as to bring up the numbers of girls in STEAM related fields. Start Young Researches sho...

Connecting Rural To Global Through Online Education

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The depressing and gloomy state of rural Indian education is not hidden from anyone. It has continued to be a distressing issue for past several decades. Innumerous schemes adopted by various governments also failed to bring a reforming change to the miser ability of the situation. There still remains a colossal hole between the officially accomplished and then to-be-achieved learning objectives. In such scenario online education can be used as an effective tool to bridge the gap and unlock the challenges. Education in the rural and most remote areas face a lot of hardships like lack of a proper infrastructure, paucity of qualified teachers , willingness of teachers to locate to the remote areas, gender inequality and difficulty in bringing the children to school . E-learning can therefore be deployed as the solution to these problems effectively.  As per a report, the numbers of internet users are predicted to get doubled by the end of 2018 and the rural users t...

Online Examinations to Reduce Exam Malpractices

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An examination is an age-old practice to assess one’s knowledge. It has become a crucial tool to pursue admissions in higher institutes as well as to get jobs. It is the result of examinations that chooses the future path or a profession With the augmenting competition level and corresponding increasing difficulty level of the exams , there has been a considerable rise in associated scams too. These malpractices are witnessed more in the conventional form of exams . The traditional offline exam pattern undergoes an elaborative procedure from the setting of paper, checked by a senior official, printing up the papers , assigning them to safety vault, handing over to the supervisors before the examination and many more. There can be a lot of loopholes in the entire process thus increasing the chances of disclosure of the paper. Therefore now the organizations and the government are drifting towards the online examination modes. Information and Communication Technology (I...

Online Tuitions Vs Coaching Institutes

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Keeping up the competition level and standing out in the crowd is no longer a piece of cake. An extra effort and an additional guidance do no harm in this scenario. Tuitions are becoming an essential part in every student’s life. The tutorial sessions are proving to be winners in enhancing capabilities of students in various aspects. In the past decade online tuitions have gained popularity exponentially. This has also resulted into a dilemma for the parents and students whether to opt for online portals or traditional coaching centers .  This article is planned to assist those guardians with reaching out a superior choice by rattling off the favorable circumstances and drawbacks of both. Each child is unique Every child has different behavioural aspects, different learning capabilities and unique grasping power. Some students stand out of the rest while some need to be given some extra attention and extra care. The coaching centres fail to serve the pur...