Education is changing from being teacher-centric to student-centric.  This shift creates several ripple effects on the subject matter, educational tools, student-teacher interaction, and student motivation.  This revolutionary shift is creating a generation of capable children that are impacting the world at a very young age.  The access to information and the use of several new instructional design methodologies are creating learning modules that are highly engaging and effective.   The animation is one such medium and this methodology is gaining popularity and usage amongst educators.  The use of story-telling and scripting is a fresh take on the traditional class lecture which revolves around theory and examples.  Animation captures the gist of the lesson and infuses it into a medium that children just can’t get  enough of. 1 Animation, however, is not just about watching or listening to a video.  It is so much more in PIE – The ...

Praadis Institute of  Education is a nextgen Edtech startup that focuses on personalized and gamified learning utilizing AI, VR, and AR technologies.  The PIE app has multiple learning modules that not just teach the concept but motivate the student to learn and excel because of gamification.  The interesting part of this is the long-term effect of gamification – it is shown in multiple research studies that gamification actually changes the emotional connection that a student has to his studies.  The student becomes engaged and motivated to learn instead of viewing studies as an obligation or chore.   Eventually with practice our design implicitly teaches students how to learn. Learning is a truly immersive process – to master any subject one must learn the theory and then gain practical experience first-hand of the subject matter.  Our students will master their course material because of the design of the subject matter.  Modules like st...

The overload on books by private schools is almost double of what is required by NCERT. But with PIE there is no need for books because all the content of the textbook is inside a mobile application on a smartphone that fits in your hand. Students don't learn more just because they have more books! The huge number of textbooks required by schools is ridiculous and has no impact in a student’s actual education. It just seems as though children will learn through osmosis – just put the book to your head and it sinks in. They point of an education is to mold a child into a critical thinker and well-rounded adult – not turn a child into an encyclopedia. Facts show that with the rise in private schools in India that the requirement of school books has also increased. All this creates undue pressure on students. Students schoolbags are getting heavier year after year. For a KG student, the requirement is to purchase around 10 – 12 books that need to be brought to and from schoo...

Generally speaking, many believe that memorizing concepts through repetition is how learning takes place. This technique for learning is classified as "rote learning". Many believe this is the only way to secure good grades. Is rote learning an obsolete method or is there a legitimate spot for its utilization in the classroom today? Progressively, rote learning is being surrendered for fresh learning approaches utilizing digital learning apps, educational gaming, and personalized learning. Is repetition reducing your child's creative thinking and analytical skills? Creativity is the capacity to concoct new, unique, and special answers for everyday issues or situations. It utilizes divergent reasoning, which is a thought process that involves a spontaneous, free-flowing, and non-linear flow to reach numerous conceivable solutions. This is the opposite of concurrent reasoning, which is characterized by tackling issues in an isolated manner not taking...