Ansari Nagar Government School
From an auto ride to meeting up with Smitri Sharma to see what real Indian schools look like. Caught these kids being kids:
Sanskriti School Day 2
Today was a full day planned at Sanskriti beginning in the teacher lounge where everyone shares food. Wandering around the school I came across some students learning and practicing a science song. I saw a little of either an assembly or PE or was it both? Here are a bunch...
Would you like to visit the Acropolis?
Of course you would, even if it included lectures in between the sites.
What’s it like to be autistic?
VR ideas like this one could help people understand the experiences of others, it's up to us to create or negotiate for the content to fuel this "empathy machine".
Sanskriti School and Groceries
With several school visits planned this week, I decided to take it easy a bit on Sunday. I ordered food delivered from the Moti Mahal Deluxe , some Indian food and some Chinese food and requested no capsicum in any of the dishes. Three times. Still there were some chunks of bell peppers in...
Space Science Explorations
Astronomy and space are obviously great topics- if not the best- for VR. Here are some of the things available now, from Star Chart, to Titans of Space, to a tutorial about the ISS, and finally a challenging game that reminds you of the movie Gravity. Another great game I'll...
Meeting Education Leaders
On Friday afternoon I met with Vyjayanthi Sankar the Founder & Executive Director of CSSL which stands for the Center for Science of Student Learning. What an audacious title but they are serious about it. She described the scope of her work designing assessments that reveal how students are think....
Learning to fly as an Eagle
Another dream of mankind is to imitate the grace of birds who have learned how to travel in the atmosphere. It looks like so much fun to us until we think about long migrations and competition for nest space and the competitive reality of the environment that shapes natural selection....
India’s Republic Day
Thursday was the big Republic Day parade in Delhi. I watched it from the comfort of television. With just about everything closed for the holiday, the thunder rolled in and the rain started coming down pretty hard all day. The restaurant delivery services were not available, even Swiggy was no go...
Underwater Ocean VR
Many if not all of us love the ocean and wish we could spend more time looking at it or even looking IN it. We need to build more awareness of the ocean on the level of ecosystems, climate, resources, the relationship of the ocean to everything really. A problem...
The Ultimate School Detention
Not too many students would complain today if their consequences for misbehaving or being lazy meant after school detention in virtual reality. The Story of Colonist A-514 goes like this: "As a teenager in the middle generation of a 140 year expedition to re-colonize mankind, you have no experience of...
Heritage School
This morning after breakfast I gave myself plenty of time (90 minutes) to get an Uber to the Metro, ride out to the end and then get an Uber to the Heritage School in Gurgaon. The ride on the Metro will not be forgotten soon, although it is likely to...
Fulbright House stay and moving to Safdarjung Enclave
On Sunday I relaxed a little and enjoyed the quiet atmosphere of the USIEF campus. I enjoyed the Indian style breakfast. I did venture to walk out to Bengali Market and Connaught Place, expecting it to be a little easier...
Presenting at the Science Centre
I was honored (and challenged) to give a presentation at the Science Centre during their Innovation Faire. It was great to have a chance to develop my speaking skills, I still have a long ways to go but there's only one way to learn, right? I'm not much of a...