b n satnalika foundation december 2013 newsletter

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B N Satnalika Foundation 92 M G Road Raniganj: 713347 District: Burdwan West Bengal

Mission

To spread education among the underprivileged sections of the society as the purpose of

education is not to fill the minds of students with facts rather it is to teach them to think.

Vision

Every child in India gets excess to the best education and has a bright future. Education with

values given to our society is the best remedy to all societal evils.

Promoters

Mr. Debi Prasad Satnalika, Chairman

Mrs. Deepa Satnalika, Vice Chairman

Mr. Niraj Satnalika, Managing Director

Message from Chairman

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life

itself.”

Message from Vice Chairman

“With the increasing demand and importance of Education in every

sphere of Life, I have started this Foundation. The foundation would

provide monthly financial assistance to bright and needy students

who are deprived of basic educational facilities which they should get.

The idea of starting the foundation came with the learning from my

own life and sacrifices me and my family did to bring my children who

are now successful Individuals.”

Meet Our Team-

Chairman,

Editorial Board

Niraj Satnalika

Editorial

Committee:

Neha Trivedi

Shreya Verma

Designer:

Nandhakumar

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What motivates children to learn?

Every child learns a little differently. It would be convenient if each child fit into

one of the traditional learning styles, such as visual learner, kinesthetic learner,

or auditory learner. The truth is that each child is a unique combination of

these learning styles as well as other points in their personalities that make

their learning style unique to each child.

Learning styles tend to explain how a child learns. Visual learners like to see

the educational material demonstrated, they tend to like learning on the

computer. Kinesthetic learners need to touch and feel to learn, they like to

build models. Auditory learners learn best when hearing the information

presented. Besides having a way that they like to learn each student has a

reason, a motivation, why they learn. It is important to take advantage of not

only the way the child learns, but what motivates the child to learn.

Some children learn what is put before them because they feel some sense of

obligation to do what they are told to do. For these children it doesn’t seem to

matter how the material is presented, but that the material is presented.

Sometimes these children are called compliant learners. They do not seem to

need external rewards to learn unless you consider the approval of adults as a

reward.

Other children seem to need a more tangible reward. Some athletes are

examples of this. They do the school work because the end result is that if they

do their schoolwork they are allowed participation in their chosen sport. An

example might be football players who must maintain a “C” average to be

allowed to play in the game on Friday night. There are things that are

considered rewards, and for each child there is a different reward that is

important. Some children are motivated by rewards that are internal. They

learn because it gives them pleasure, or they are driven to know more about a

subject, or they are driven to learn to know more than other children, in a

sense to become an expert. There is a set of children who learn for the joy of

accumulating knowledge; in a sense the knowledge itself is the reward

Some children are motivated by the act of completion. For example, each

chapter in science is an exercise to be completed. When they finish the

chapter, they have checked off some mark, and are ready to begin the


next chapter, so that they can complete it. For that child, the reward is the

check mark, not necessarily the knowledge gained. Grades are another

important reward. Receiving the praise for the grades or the gaining attention

for grades can be a reward and a motivator.

It is important to find out what the motivator is for your child. External

rewards, internal rewards, accolades, privileges, or simply the joy of learning

can all be powerful motivators. Once you find the right combination of

motivating rewards for your child you will better understand what inspires

them to learn. In combination with learning styles, motivational styles can help

you get the most learning into your child, with the fewest drawbacks.

B N Satnalika Foundation reaches to underprivileged children so to ensure

they get access to proper elementary education.

Contribute as low as INR 3600 (10 a day) for 1 child and do your part of good

towards the society whom we neglect at large.

Donate today and join us in the movement to spread education.

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The Choice of Tables for Girls: Study Table or Cooking Table, why?

-By Ruchi Bakhai

"I know not where our country would head towards if we still are populated

with people who treat ‘girl’s education’ as a matter of NO importance.

Do we choose between our left/right eyes? Do we give away one of our

kidney’s without any rhyme or reason? Then why do people put forth choices

in front of girls? Or let’s say girls are not given any choices AT ALL. In today’s

times the scenario is a little different from ancient times, when girls were not

given the right to education and were subjected to male chauvinism and a

patriarchal society. Yes, even today these orthodox concepts are prevalent,

but, with a slight ‘modern’ modification. Today girls are given the right to

education but many get annexed in their journey of shaping a bright career.

Either girls are given little or no education, or they are well taught and then

forced to choose one out of the two work-fronts: the study/office table or the

cooking table. Can such a right be truly called a right if it gets bartered against

a girls dream, desires, emotions, self respect, and most importantly her

IDENTITY?

Will we keep talking over the importance of girls’ education and ‘execute’ none

of our ‘never ending talks’? It’s that era when mere talks about the

emancipation of women won’t do any help, it’s that era when all we require is

an emancipation of downright redundant thoughts and concepts of people

who oppose women’s enlightenment.

“Education is the light against all darkness”

Offering girls basic education is one sure way of giving them much greater

power- of enabling them to make genuine choices over the kinds of lives they

wish to lead. Educating women is NOT a luxury. That women might have the

chance of a healthier and happier life should be reason enough for promoting

girls’ education. However, there are also important benefits for society as a

whole. An educated woman has the skills, information and self-confidence that

she needs to be a better parent, worker and citizen.

An educated woman is, for example, likely to marry at a later age and have

fewer children. Cross-country studies show that an extra year of schooling for


girls reduces fertility rates by 5 to 10 per cent. And the children of an educated

mother are more likely to survive. In India, for example, the infant mortality

rate of babies whose mothers have received primary education is half that of

children whose mothers are illiterate.

An educated woman will also be more productive at work — and better paid.

Indeed, the dividend for educational investment is often higher for women

than men. Studies from a number of countries suggest that an extra year of

schooling will increase a woman’s future earnings by about 15 per cent,

compared with 11 per cent for a man. Girls’ education is not a matter about an

individual; it is a matter about the future of the ‘second sex’ of the human

race. PROMOTE GIRLS’ EDUCATION-SECURE FUTURE!

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A Blank State

The “blank slate” view of human development by Locke and Rousseau, where

the idea is that a child is born completely free of any disposition or

vulnerabilities, and that everything a child would become is due to the effects

of the environment, though has been completely discredited today, it is

important to remember that families, communities, peers, schools, culture,

and parents have at LEAST an equal part of making us who we are, even if

Rousseau was wrong. Given the role of all these people and institutions in the

shaping up of a child, Education plays the most crucial and important role in

determining the ‘future’ of the child.

A “blank slate” implies that babies are born with infinite possibilities. In the

“education” sector the most important issue is to understand the psyche of the

student and with theories like the “blank slate” around it becomes even more

an issue of vital importance to perceive the child as one with “infinite

possibilities”. But are the Indian schools able to cater to the needs of students?

Do the teachers suffice completely in fulfilling their roles? Or is it the scenario

of a child sitting with a blank slate in his/her hands in front of a blackboard and

returning home with loads of homework and nothing written on ‘their’ blank

slates? Sadly, all these questions are in a way rhetorical.

Even after concepts like child-centric education, learning while experiencing,

learn through co-curricular activities, etc. schools somehow fall short to

completely cater to the needs of the students. Even today students are not

given the freedom to learn while creating. Shuffling aside these worthy

concepts inside books-to-read, all the students are made to go through the

‘same’ learning process ignoring their likes and capabilities. Students have to

bear the baggage of ‘performing’ placing them all under the same category, i.e.

with no consideration of their being different from others. The ‘paradox of

pushing kids to succeed’ is so burdening that their natural talent and an

inherent capacity to create the ‘new’ is getting curbed.

We’ve had many great ideas to improve the educational system, but if we dig

deep into our educational system, we will find that these concepts are mere

concepts ONLY. It’s the need of our children to see a sunshine that brightens


up their learning experience with such an efficient educational system that

does not just ‘talk’ of concepts, rather one that ‘follows’ these concepts.

Probably only then will come a day when students would not return home

empty/blank-slated, but being Enlightened.

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Children’s don’t want tablets, Xbox They just want a copy and pen!

For 16-year-old Sanjukta Pangi, meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at

the G8 Summit in Rome, was a dream come true. Making the most of the

opportunity, she spoke to him about promoting quality education for all Indian

children and in particular, issues faced by tribal people and the need for access

to education.

Pangi, who hails from Koratpur, Orissa, was accompanied by Narendra Kumar

from Rae-Bareli, UP, and Samuel Venkatesan, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu,

representing India at the Junior 8 (J8) — a parallel youth summit for 52 young

people between the ages of 14-17 from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,

the Russian Federation, UK, US, Brazil, China, Egypt, Mexico and South Africa.

At the meeting, the J8 representatives presented their recommendations for

the leaders attending the G8. All of them emphasised the need for high-quality

post-primary education for all children and a safe trip to school.

During her meeting with the Prime Minister, Pangi also read the

recommendations made by the J8 on education, climate change, the global

financial crisis and poverty reduction in Africa. Sharing her story, she says,

“Transportation is a huge problem, especially in hilly areas like ours, where we

have to walk down several miles to reach the school. So, I shared these

problems with the Prime Minister and asked him to consider the matter as

access to education is very important.” She opined also that, since every child

has a right to quality education, the standard of education in government

schools should be the same as the private ones.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) supports the J8 to allow young

people to have their voices heard by the G8 and non-G8 leaders to help

influence policies that affect these children’s lives. And Pangi’s mission isn’t

over yet. “We have made an action plan that we all will implement when we

go back to our daily lives,” she says.


Our Partners


November News

UK-India partnership: £150 million committed to joint research in five years

Funded jointly by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research

Council (BBSRC) and India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT), UK-India

announced £150 million for joint research collaboration.

Oxford aims to weed out 'rich and thick' students this year

Even as its alumni includes the wealthy and famous from around the world, the

Oxford University this year is looking to weed out "thick and rich" applicants

and ensure that admissions are made on merit.

Sign up for one board, get two free

At India International School, which offers all three streams, the endeavour has

been to give every student this advantage. So while students choose the

boards they want to study under, they benefit from the approach and

methodology of the other two boards.

AIIMS embraces technology

In medical education, traditionally, students have been taught through

different techniques, which include blackboard, slides, field visits, etc. "With

changes being made in the curriculum, using tech aids has become a priority to

help students. The changes include use of animations, videos, etc." says Dr PK

Julka, dean (academic), AIIMS, Delhi.

Education system in India is rich oriented: Anand Kumar

Describing the education system in the country as 'rich-oriented', founder of

Patna-based 'Super 30' Anand Kumar strongly advocated that the Joint

Entrance Examinations (JEE) of professional institutions should be based on

natural talent and creativity rather than the prevailing system. Opposing the

two-tier entrance examination of the IIT, he said even the top 20 percentile

system of the engineering institute was wrong as it prevents a level playing

field for the meritorious students, who fail to be among top-20 percentile

scorers in class XII exams of their respective boards.


Book preference: textbook or e-book

Gone are the days of slates, chalk pens, its d ‘e-book’ age. It’s the age where

children are more comfortable with ‘e-learning’ than age-old ‘textbook’

learning process. No more do children restrict their knowledge source to

paper-bagged-jacketed-non-jacketed-books. The forum of ‘e-learning’ is huge

and fast growing, so much so as to make children more comfortable with e-

learning than fall back to textbooks as their medium of gaining knowledge.

With e-books becoming so easily available with just a mouse click that students

have started discarding the idea of long queues for textbooks in libraries. Yes,

today the book preference is more of the e-book than of the textbook.

With the change in age the method of learning process is constantly changing.

But is it completely fine to lose the grace of age-old textbook learning

technique? Are e-books able enough to act as an alibi in the place of

textbooks?

Time and again e-books have proved to be a reliable source of knowledge, one

which is able enough to uphold the stature of textbooks. Though there is

nothing wrong in following the olden ways of flipping pages of the textbook

than clicking away pages with the mouse, but there is nothing wrong in using

the e-books either.

Certain textbooks that go out-of-print and are no longer available in book

stores and are under the ‘reserved’ or ‘non-issue’ sections of libraries, make it

a little difficult for students to use them. Such books become more time

consuming than others, because they require students to wait in long queues

in the libraries to be able to read them. This increases the labor of students by

about 50% more. It’s during such times that e-books become a great help by

reducing the ‘unnecessary’ labor of students. But, there is a slight problem to

this option as well, because not ALL textbooks are converted to e-books. So,

even in this e-book age, textbooks have not totally lost its importance.

It’s just a matter of preference and NOT a matter of the importance inculcated

within each one of them. It’s just a CHANGED face of education and this

change is a good change which is highly reliable, dependable and useful. ‘e-

book’ is the NEW revolution in Education.


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You can sponsor one or more child with mere ₹ 3600 for a year which will be used for the benefit of the

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