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All books that don't meet the learning criteria must be taken off

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Learning About Learning Resources https://github.com/amiyatulu/teacher_resources Textbook must cover six fundamental instructional strategies while presenting the information, defined by rigorous research. 1)  Pairing graphics with words 2)  Linking abstract concepts with concrete representations Why we face difficulty to remember abstract concepts? https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/why-we-face-difficulty-to-remember-non-concrete-information/ 3)  Posing probing questions http://mrkempnz.com/2014/06/questioning-the-most-powerful-tool-in-the-classroom-an-action-research.html "What Makes a Great Question?" rubric Why, how, what if, how do you know, what are the evidences What if and why not helps you to find alternatives to a solution 4) Repeatedly alternating problems with their solutions provided and problems that students must solve. Solved example and unsolved problem  with steps of problem-solving strategy: 1) sort 2)strategize 3) solve and 4) check...

What are the problems with grades?

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The problem with grades: 1) Grades are an oversimplification of achievements that say very little about it. They are just numbers which say nothing about what you know or about your working skills. 2) Grades are often biased and are done based upon the context of questions . Sometimes questions are not well made, most often they are just repeats of previous year questions. Because of this they really don't check the critical high order thinking of the children. 3) Malpractice . It is also rampant in our education system. 4) Too much of psychological pressure from parents, teachers to score more, that leads them to depression and sometimes even they take drastic steps like suicide. 5)Grades shift the goal from learning to just marks , which can be achieved by many many means with our inefficient education system. 6) No grades are given for effort , grades are given only for solving hypothetical book problems . I have seen many students struggling in our education system, trying t...

Going away with money and making a currency that counts to unity always.

Going to the beginning of the problem and taking a different way to solve it, instead of money and currency. https://goldsilver.com/hidden-secrets/episode-1/ Note: Money Vs Currency The difference is not money (gold and silver) has value, and currency doesn't have. Actually, they both don't have any value, as it doesn't serve our need. The real difference is we can't create money with time and effort. To take the decision now, we need to understand the past and break the reproducible patterns that don't work in the past, to have a better future. Need Require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable Need is something that is required for us to thrive. Our actual needs are the concrete object like food, clothing, mobiles, computers, services like education, electricity, water, air and endless list. Some of it like air and water, which doesn't require any exchange (we do sell purified water), as they are sufficient in amount...

Future of Money: Removing the negative impacts of money

Just got an idea, we have two types of money, one required for short time for doing an exchange and other for storage. Name it: Exchange bitcoin and Storage bitcoin A centralized server (bitcoin bank) to generate bitcoin money who will keep track of money. Exchange bitcoins will come with an expiry date of one/two month. After bitcoins, are expired you have to reactivate your bitcoins from the centralized generator using your valid identity. In this way, money will remain accountable, can't be misused by anyway and money also can't be concentrated. Also, you can get bitcoins for storage (storage bitcoins), which can never be used to buy services or goods, you can get the storage bitcoins from bitcoin bank exchanging your exchange bitcoin. Storage bitcoins will be tagged with your identity, so you can't exchange it with anyone. Only you can exchange it through bitcoin bank to get exchange bitcoin. Also no chance of hacking, freedom of p2p exchange. No problems at all. What d...

How to make India cashless economy in limited time and solve cash crunch?

Some of the steps that need to be taken: 1) First, inform retailers and shops to use eMoney wallets such as SBI Buddy for taking payments. Also, people to pay with these wallets. It's the MOST IMPORTANT step. Informing is not an easy step, it requires the support of media, all politicians, and volunteers . Digital money transfer through IMPS also costs about Rs 24 per transaction. This has to be completely removed. Transfer costs should be same as that of payment gateways. There is another problem: server load. Are our bank servers ready to make such a huge amount of transaction? How many transactions a bank server per minute can make? I think it has the limited capacity now because transaction fails many of the time, also we don't get OTP. So in order to solve the server issue we need to distribute the load among different apps. With a limited number of transactions possible per an hour. A merchant should install all the apps together to get money, just like merchants who do ...

Questioning beyond textbook exercises and making an own (alternative) hypothesis to explain. Is it allowed in our education system?

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Hypothesis and Scientific Theory Our education system problem: Teachers prepare questions and students answer it by learning  from explanation of the book. We don't teach our kids to question and also come up with their own hypothesis or explanation. In some generous schools, even though teacher encourages to question what student don't understand, but they are hesitant to encourage difficult questions that have no answers or questions that teacher doesn't know. By this method, we are just stopping our kids to imagine or be creative. So, let me go with the example, some very interesting questions that students asked in class. 1) Water and ghee, why does ghee floats in water? According to the book, water is polar and ghee is nonpolar, so water repel out ghee and they get separated from each other. But why ghee floats in water? Water has the molecular weight of 18 g/mol, while ghee is a long chain hydrocarbon, its molecular weight is much larger than water. Some of the hypo...

Organic and Inorganic chemistry of Chemistry book in India: All about rote learning

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Organic and Inorganic chemistry of Chemistry book in India: All about rote learning Most part of organic chemistry is all about remembering names and steps of reactions. It promotes VERY LITTLE comprehension of mechanisms and working of the reactions. Are these questions? Ridiculous Please do compare the content and questions with international books such as Chemistry: A Molecular Approach of Nivaldo J. Tro for Inorganic and Organic part, and also Organic Chemistry as a Second Language by David Klein In organic and inorganic class, the teacher usually teaches the blackboard, not the students, because the content of the book is just about steps of reactions and alien names with no understanding. Please design the syllabus and book accordingly that makes organic and inorganic chemistry interesting , increases curiosity and promotes comprehension and inquiry . e.g. Do students know why carbon makes life, not silicon even if both can form 4 bonds?