Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC) is the State Government's think tank body tasked with promoting innovation in Kerala. In today's social realm of increasing significance of knowledge-based activities, innovation has turned out to be a social driver. Young Innovators Programme (YIP) is the flagship project of K-DISC designed to transform the vision of a knowledge society in a way that is suited to our State through the promotion of innovations that bring about equitable and sustainable development of Kerala and provide solutions for real-life problems, and which are socially and economically beneficial to the society at large.
The day marked the collaboration launch of YIP club and unicef. It was formally inaugurated by Shanavas S IAS, The Director of General Education. He expounded the significance of being active learners who are curious and creative. He asked the learners not to be passive recipients of information and instead be creators of innovations and knowledge.
Due to the event, I couldn't engage the learners of 8C. I had a class with 9B during the last period. We started discussing the second unit Winds of Change. I asked them about their dreams and how the dreams of great personalities like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa from differed from ours. Later, I gave them 5 clues about Gandhiji and asked them to guess the person and write the first word they are reminded of when they think about him. Learners correctly identified Gandhi and wrote words like Ahimsa, Satyagraha, freedom etc. on the sticky notes. The class and learner engagement was satisfactory. I was again convinced about the need to incorporate variety to the teaching-learning process.
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