3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue # 59, 24th August 2021

Da Vinci said ” Everything is connected to everything else”. To connect the dots, we need to learn many things if not every thing. To survive and thrive in today’s times, our students, our children and us need to learn new things every so often even if not perfectly. The various kinds of skills, the new knowledge, the experience and exposure that we get and share with our colleagues and students makes us better skilled in whatever we pursue. Life long learning is the way ahead, most certainly in the post pandemic era.

Here are a few tips on how you can try it for yourself and with your children/students as parents and teachers. Come along with me in my learning journey every Tuesday. Subscribe to this weekly newsletter by your email.

Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein

“Working life has extended so much in the last fifty years that it exceeds life expectancy of even the most successful businesses. Very few businesses are successful for more than 25 or 30 years. And yet most educated people who go to work in their early twenties will keep working until they are 70. And so they had better be prepared for a second career whether it’s in another organization where they are doing what they have been doing or in a new line of work. They must be prepared to learn again. They must be prepared to position themselves. They must be prepared to want to learn- to see it not as something they need to do, but as something they enjoy doing. They will have to learn how to learn.”
― Peter Drucker

One Video of the Week

How does one pursue all the varied interests when stuggling with the inevitability and harsh reality of earning one’s living? Not taking the easy way of giving up on her interests, Gitanjali JB decided to go ahead chasing her dreams of doing what she felt a keen interest for, without worrying if she ever had a chance of bringing them all together for a constructive cause. While pursuing her passions, she realised that each of her interests was enhancing her life in a way that would not have been possible otherwise. It was not just the thrill of learning something new, but the process of learning gave her insights that made her expertise in the complementing fields more pronounced.

Before you decide to give up an interest because of lack of time or just wondering what will you do by pursuing it, watch this inspirational talk by Gitanjali, and you will have a totally new perspective on learning and life and how they go hand in hand! Gitanjali JB is a multifaceted social entrepreneur and educationist. An alum of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), her interest in educational reforms was ignited when as a child she could not relate to what she was studying in the books. She gave up her flourishing corporate career of 20 years to set up Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL) as its Founding CEO. HIAL is an alternative institute for mountain development that aims to revolutionise higher education in India through the pedagogy of contextual and experiential learning.

Showcase of the Week

And Finally…

Dear reader,

I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write.  With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.

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