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Guidelines forenhancing students'learning unveiled
A ctor Olivia Wilde has been signedby Sony Pictures to helm and de-velop a female-centric Marvel
film for the studio. According to Variety,there have been speculations about Sonydeveloping a moviearound the characterof Spider-Woman. Several Marvel comicshave held the title of Spider-Woman withJessica Drew in the 1970s. Besides Drew,Mary-Jane and Gwen Stacy have alsobeen a part of the title.
CHANDRAYAAN- 2 COMPLETES AYEAR AROUND MOON, ADEQUATEFUEL FOR 7 MORE YEARS: ISRO
India's second lunar mission Chan-drayaan- 2 completed a year in the or-bit around the Moon on Thursday, and
all the instruments are currently per-forming well. There is adequate onboardfuel to keep it operational for about sevenmore years, space agency ISRO said.
BOOK
➤The new female-centric film willbe bankrolled by Amy Pascal, andwill be written by Katie Silberman,who had earlier written 'Booksmart'
➤Wilde made her debut with thefeature film, 'Booksmart'
➤The film had released on May 24,2020, and minted $ 22 million
Union education minister RameshPokhriyal has released the Stu-dents' Learning Enhancement
Guidelines.
OLIVIA WILDE TO HELM FEMALE-CENTRIC MARVEL FILM
MOVIES
INCLUDE CHAPTERS ON CITIZENS' DUTIES IN SCHOOL BOOKS: CENTRE TO NCERT
TOWARDS MAKINGOUR CITIZENS
DUTIFUL
As public parti-cipation gainssignificance inthe fight
against coronavirus, theCentre has asked theNCERT and state gov-ernments to includechapters on citizens' du-ties in school books.Union secretary, depart-ment of justice, BarunMitra has said that thegovernment has pre-pared course modules oncitizens' duties as de-tailed in the Constitu-tion, after some states
Children are thefinest carriers ofsocial messages asseen in the SwachhBharat and 'No toPlastics' campaigns. The Centre has alsostarted engaging NRIson how they can per-form citizens' dutiesabroad, and help thecause of the country
HOW TO MAKE THEM EFFECTIVE
DUTIES THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDEDTO NOT TO INDULGE IN THE CIRCULATION OF FAKECONTENT: Since everyone is active on social media plat-forms, an awareness on not to spread fake content with-out verifying facts, should be included in our syllabus.Inayat Kapoor, class XII, Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula
OFFER LESSONS ON HOW ETHICAL DECISIONSARE MADE: Set up situations in which studentscan apply these skills in solving the problems. Swagata Banerjee, teacher, BDM Intl, Kolkata
CREATE AN AWARENESS ON THE DUTIES:Encourage children by setting an example,and participating in various activities, likekeeping the surroundings clean. Support thestudents' for small role-plays and debates tocreate awareness about the rights and dutieson issues, like cybercrime, hygiene, etc Ritu Sharma, educator, St Kabir School, Ahmd
LEAD BY EXAMPLE: Teach-ers should set an exampleby practising what theyteach the students. It will encourage the stu-dents to follow them in letter and spirit. Suryakumari Dennison, teacher, AavishkarAcademy, Bengaluru
EXPLAIN THE NEED OF THE DUTIES: It isimperative for both the teachers and the eldersto explain the children on why a particular dutyhas been included in their curriculum. Mutualsharing of information between the kids andtheir parents, teachers and peers will go a longway in making them conscious citizens.GEETA SAINI, teacher, HAL School, Lucknow
HYGIENE CONSCIOUS: The spreadingof an infection can stop with basichygienic measures. It’s our duty todrive a campaign on the importance of hygiene.Jobel Jiji Joseph, class XI, RCJPS, Kakkanad, Ernakulam
TO STAY ALERT: As a responsible citizen, we should remainalert of the happenings in our surrounding, and not fall preyto rumours. We should inform our parents, elders or policeimmediately, if we come across any suspicious activities.Sanya Sinha, class XII, MRISchool, Faridabad
Chapter IV of the Indian Constitution comprises theFundamental Duties of citizens. Added to the Constitution by
the 42nd Amendment in 1976, the concept was taken from theUSSR Constitution. They are not justiciable, and are enshrined inthe Directive Principles of State Policies
1 Get to know your team mem-bers and their schedules.Getting a little personal with
each team member can make iteasier, when it comes to sacrificingtime to achieve a common learninggoal. Also, get to know your onlineinstructor and his or her teachingstrategies.
TIPS TO DEALWITH ONLINE
GROUP WORKKNOW YOUR TEAM ANDINSTRUCTOR
2 A team can’t function solelythrough email. A five-minutephone conversation often
gets a point across verbally that 10emails can’t. Plan phone meetingsat least once to keep everyone insync. The meetings can be short,but any more than a few days with-out contact can thwart efforts tostay on track.
FIND A SPECIFIC TIME TO MEET
3 Elect one person to be the“voice” for the final versionof the assignment. Once the
elected “voice” has edited togeth-er all the content, have them sub-mit it to the group for review.Group members can then makeedits or insert ideas to polish thefinal assignment.
FIND SOMEONE TO BE THE“VOICE” OF THE PROJECT
4 Today, many collaborativelearning options are avail-able— from text, voice or chat
via Gmail, to conference calling withSkype, TalkShoe, or document-sharingwith DropBox, collaborating online ismuch easier. Pick and agree on thecollaboration and tracking methodsbefore starting.
AGREE ON THE TOOLS THATYOU’LL USE TO COLLABORATE
5 Assign one member to beready to step in and com-plete a crucial role, if anoth-
er team member cannot. Someemergency situation my crop up,so always have a back up
ASSIGN EVERY PERSON’SROLE ON THE PROJECT
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➤ The documents, such as AlternativeAcademic Calendar, PRAGYATAGuidelines, Digital Education-IndiaReport, NISHTHA-Online, etc, are someof the initiatives that have been under-taken to maintain continuity in schooleducation for children
➤ The NCERT has prepared Students'Learning Enhancement Guidelines forthe present situation, and also for thepost-pandemic situation
➤ The guidelines are suggested forthree types of situations—Firstly, inwhich the students do not have anydigital resources. Secondly, in whichthe students have limited digitalresources available. Lastly, in whichstudents have digital resources avail-able for the online education
There has been plenty of talkabout actor Sushant SinghRajput's controversialgratitude jour nal that
was posted online by his girl-friend Rhea Chakravarty.While the controversy overwho has actually written thejour nal continues, it hasbrought the focus on writ-ing gratitude jour nals.Here's more about this pop-ular concept.
WHAT IS IT?A concept widely used by psy-chologists across the world, agratitude journal is a medium,where you jot down all the thingsyou are grateful for. The idea is tomake the person maintaining the jour-
nal FOCUS ON THE POSITIVETHINGS IN LIFE. No wonder, it has
earned a place as a prominent ap-proach to positive psychology. The
maintenance of a gratitude jour-nal is also believed to help re-lieve symptoms of depressionand anxiety.
WHY IT WORKS...According to clinical psy-chologist, Dr Piya Nandi,journalling can help de-pressed or anxious patients
vent their bottled-up feelings,and also feel positive. “When
you are journalling yourthoughts, there is no one to ar-
gue with you or create a road-block. You have a free-flowing mind
to pen down your true feelings.”
DO YOU HAVE A GRATITUDE JOURNAL?THE ‘SILVER LININGS’
A reference to the concept of grati-tude journalling is made by AnupamKher’s character (a psychologist) inthe 2012 film, 'Silver LiningsPlaybook'. He advises his mentalhealth patient, Pat Solitano (BradleyCooper), to be grateful for life andattempt to see the good or silver lin-ings, in all that he experiences
How about writing agratitude journal andsharing with us [email protected]
Some books written byMalala Yousafzai,include 'I Am Malala','We Are Displaced' and'Malala's Magic Pencil'
Samsung officially launchesGalaxy Note 20 series globallySamsung has
launched its newflagship, phablet
globally as the South Ko-rean tech giant pinshopes on its latest de-vice to drive mobilebusiness amid the pan-
demic. The Galaxy Note20 series has hit shelvesin some 70 countries, in-cluding South Korea,the US, Britain andThailand, accord-ing to Samsung.The new mobile de-vices will be avail-able in 130 coun-tries by mid-Sep-tember.
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➤ The Galaxy Note 20 series comes in twomodels —the standard Note 20 and thehigh-end Note 20 Ultra➤ The 6.7-inch Galaxy Note20 was launched atthe original price of ` 77,999, while the 6.9-inchGalaxy Note20 Ultra 5G is available for ` 104,999
in the country
MATT REEVES SHARES FIRST LOOKOF 'THE BATMAN' LOGO
F ilmmaker Matt Reeves has unveiled thefirst look of the logo for his much-an-ticipated upcoming film, ‘The Batman’.
The 54-year-old directorshared the official logo of theflick on Twitter. The new Batman film starsPaul Dano, John Turturro, Andy Serkis, ColinFarrell and Zoe Kravitz.
SPACE
Called 'Fearless', it will fea-ture bold and inspiring women
writers, who portray theworld in a different per-spective. Each month,Malala will select a book,which she'll read and dis-cuss with her followers. The digital book club willbe hosted by Literati
MALALA TO START HER BOOK CLUBTHIS OCTOBER
➤ Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July22, 2019, and was inserted into the lunarorbit on August 20, 2019➤ Chandrayaan-2 mission was India'sfirst attempt to make a soft landing ofa rover on the unchartered South Poleof the lunar surface. However, the lan-der Vikram hard-landed in Septemberlast year➤ India's first mission to the Moon,Chandrayaan-1, launched in 2008, hadgiven clear evidence on the extensivepresence of surface water, and theindication for sub-surface polar water-ice deposits
A ctivist, Nobel Laureateand author MalalaYousafzai is all set to
start her digital book club in October 2020.
➤The poster, designed by DC's chiefcreative officer, Jim Lee, depicts thebatsuit as worn by Robert Pattinson'sBruce Wayne in the film.➤The upcoming superhero flick willresume shooting in early September.Filming for the comic book adventure filmwas halted due to the coron-avirus pandemic, when it wasroughly seven weeks intothe production
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sent their inputs on the subject. “Rights flowonly from the duties well performed. If eachone amongst us performs our duty, everybody'srights would be automatically protected,” hesaid. “Freedom without acceptance of re-sponsibility can destroy the edifice of free-dom itself. Rights and responsibilities mustbe balanced,” he added.
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St. Angel’s SchoolGurugram, Haryana
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02 “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”GÉRARD DE NERVAL, FRENCH WRITER AND POET SCHOOL IS COOL
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RUHANI NARANG, Class X Manav Sthali SchoolRAGHAV ARORA, Class IX, Manav Sthali School Rajendra Nagar
The Government has fi-nally released the NewEducation Policy on29th of July 2020. It hasreplaced the 34 years old
National Policy on Educationframed way back in 1986. The newEducation Policy has sweeping re-forms in school as well as highereducation.
The changes highlighted in theNew Education Policy seek tobring in the holistic changes asper the needs of twenty first cen-tury. The approach adopted hasbeen multidisciplinary and flex-ible to bring about innovative-ness encouraging liberalisationof education.
This would surely enable
students to learn by doing andindulge in critical thinking.They would focus on core con-cepts rather than shallow mem-ory. They would be moreequipped to deal with future chal-lenges.
There is no doubt that the Neweducation policy seeks to bringabout the development of the edu-cation system, it’s success will de-pend on the way it shall be imple-mented.If implementation is donewith proper understanding, itshall surely enable students tomake wise choices in futureleading to betterment of society.
The article by Dr Racchna Saddi,Principal Sumermal Jain Public
School, Janak Puri
Keeping development ofskills, youth and respectfor intercultural diversityas a major target,Emergence, an onlineinter-school portal, wasbeen organized for stu-dents to participate andexcel in a variety of activ-ities, by DAV PublicSchool, PushpanjaliEnclave, Cambridge Wing,where many schools fromdifferent states of Indiaparticipated. There weredifferent competitions fordifferent age groups, asper the class the studentsbelong to.The host school shared allthe achieving positionswith the school next inrank. All winners wereannounced on theschool’s website with cer-tificates and prizes for allthe winning positions.
Mata Jai KaurPublic School,Ashok Viharorganised its
first virtual annual inter-school event ‘Expressions 2k20’with ‘EUDAEMONIA’ as itstheme. The event aimed at ig-
niting young minds and toinstil in them the zeal tolead a purpose-driven and
fulfilling life. Asmany as 111 stu-dents from 20schools of Delhi par-ticipated in variouscompetitions andcompeted in the do-mains of performingarts, literary and sci-entific challenges.The students gave ex-pression to their talentand skills in diversecompetitions such asTedpitch, Artopedia,Econocature, Enacts-
peare, Sci-Fi Chronicles toname a few. The assortedevents gave a platform tothe students to nurturecreativity, explore tech-nology, experience diver-sity and encourage lead-ership and talent. Theyshowcased their spectac-ular performances and tal-ent through uploadedvideos and PDFs whichwere assessed by thejudges on the basis of rel-evance to the theme, orig-
inality and creativity, innova-tion, and overall presentation.
The school’s principal Rash-mi Mehta expressed her grati-tude for the zestful participa-tion and urged everyone tolearn to defy all odds and beconstantly engaged in self-growth and evolve with thechanging times. The covetedwinning trophy was won byMontfort School, Ashok Vihar.All the position holders and theparticipants of the Inter-SchoolCompetition were conferredwith E-certificates of merit.
Gyan Devi PublicSchool Senior Sec-ondary, Sector 17Gurgaon celebrated
Sanskrit Diwas online. Thestudents of classes VI to VIIIpresented the programme.The Chairman of Gyan DeviGroup of Schools, Capt. JSYadav and Managing Direc-tor of Gyan Devi Group ofSchools Neena Yadav presidedover the event and greeted thestaff and students on WorldSanskrit Day.
A myriad of activities wasplanned bythe SanskritDepartmentHead, MohitaB h a t n a g a r.The event com-menced withthe melodiouschanting ofhymns in San-skrit. This wasfollowed by Van-
dana, Gayatri Mantraand Shloka recitation.
The students en-thralled the audiencewith their beautifulrendering of verseswith meanings. Aspeech was deliveredhighlighting the sci-entific nature, beau-ty of the Sanskrit
language and its global im-portance.
The purity and greatnessof the language were cele-brated with a song in Sanskrit.The program ended with theShanti path. Chairman andMD applauded the efforts ofteachers and students and ad-vised the students to take pridein the Sanskrit language.
New Age, New normal
and new education system
Bharatiya Vidya Bha-van’s Mehta Vidyalayahosted its first ever on-line Dewang Mehta
Memorial Inter-School IT Sym-posium in collaboration withNASSCOM.
Harish Shantilal Mehta,Board Member NASSCOM &
Chairman, Onward Tech-nologies Ltd. was the Chief
Guest and Sangeeta Gup-ta, Vice President,
NASSCOM was theGuest of Honour.
Other dignitariespresent were Shri
Ashok Pradhan, Director, Bha-van’s Delhi Kendra; RajeshMishra, Registrar, Bhavan’s Del-hi Kendra; Dr AK Sharma, REO,Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan andDrC K Arya, Manager, MehtaVidyalaya.
Dr Anju Tandon, Principal ,Mehta Vidyalaya in her addressexpressed her amazement at thecreativity, use of 21st centuryskills and inspiring ideas of theyoung minds adding that theirunlimited potential needed to beharnessed.
In his speech Harish Shanti-lal Mehta, Chief Guest outlined
the qualities of Late DewangMehta which differentiated himfrom the rest and encouraged thestudents to be dreamers, to al-ways be a leader, be in a constantlearning mode and carry for-ward Dewang Mehta’s legacy forDigital literacy.
Alka Jayaswal, HOD, IT De-partment announced the resultsof the competition. Alka Jayasw-al, officiating Vice Principal,Mehta Vidyalaya, proposed theVote of thanks. This event wascoordinated by Smita Malik andParinita Sengupta along with theentire team of IT teachers.
Blending technology and creativity
On the occasion of their spiritual head,Revered Dada JP Vaswani’s 102ndBirthAnniversary, the students and teachers ofSadhu Vaswani International School for
Girls embarked on a mission- ‘to hear the hurt andto heal the heart’.
The School, with the most heartfelt desire toserve the society, performed Sewa. Face masks,which have become a reality during the COVID 19pandemic, were distributed, along with other
essentials. Social distancing was ensured duringthe programme.
School Principal Santosh Vyas welcomed theaudience and engaged in helping everyone per-ceive the beauty of forgiveness.
School Manager Malini Mathrani admired theefforts of the students in making the program asuccess and reminded everyone to nurture an atti-tude of gratitude.
The Prayer of Forgiveness was read, unitingeveryone in the bond of eternal love.
Practicingcompassion andforgiveness
EMERGENCE– 2020 Celebrating theSanskrit language
Staying homeis important
Corona time is rough,The key to survive is to be tough.It has started a new trend,You can not meet, can just call your friend.
I don’t like sitting idle, The life seems to need a revivalThis is temporary, not anyone’s fate,I had not understood life’s beauty till date.
Meeting with friends is also on calls,The fun and laughter is somewhere lost.I miss eating lunch with my gang,Once this pandamic is over we’ll be back with a bang.
Staying home is important and taking precau-tions is the key,Once we fight this virus we’ll soon be free.Once we are safe to be out,We’ll be with our friends and play, laugh and shout.
Aradhya Mahajan, Shanti Gyan Vidyapeeth School
St. Angel’s SchoolGurugram, Haryana
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