8 episodios
Reinvent - Hosted By Pranay pranay dasari
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- Economía y empresa
At times we all get frustrated by the problems our country is facing. Often we limit this to our usual rants in our tea time discussions. Very few of us tend act upon our ideas and take them forward.
Re-invent is a weekly podcast where I’ll bring to you, conversations with people who are doing great work in fields of education, healthcare, and governance to unpack how they are reinventing ways, services, and perspectives to solve different aspects of a problems. The conversations include discussions on policy and product designing, community engagement, collaboration, and problem solving.
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Using Assessments and Personalised Adaptive Technology to Improve Learning Outcomes
In the 2009 PISA test, India ranked 72nd out of the 73 participating countries. Every year ASER report highlights the poor state of education in India. Although India has been able to get almost every child into school, that has not necessarily translated into learning. Improving learning outcomes by overcoming rote learning is the need of the hour. Technology can be the fulcrum that we can leverage to solve the current problems of varying learning levels in the classroom and getting them to learn.
Today I talk to Pranav Kothari, Vice President of Educational Initiatives. In this episode, we talk about Pranav's personal journey from Harvard Business School into the education sector, the organisation's work in developing high-quality assessments; and the role of personalised learning in shaping education reform. The company developed Mindspark, a technology-based, personalized, adaptive learning tool that draws on a database of questions and answers to anticipate common mistakes. -
Microfinance: How it works and helps people to fight poverty
If you look at the statistics, the extent of disparity in credit in our country is seemingly unbelievable.
The rural population comprising 60% of the total population makes up for only 2.3% of the total credit. Credit plays an important role in everyones life and helps us to progress to next big thing. Banks generally doesn’t give loans to poor households and government schemes are not helping to bridge this credit gap.
Of course, there are various factors - both qualitative and quantitative that are responsible for this.
So this is where micro finance institutions come into picture, they provide micro loans to poor and provide access to credit for poor households.
How micro finance institutions do this?
Strong community engagement
Personal agency
Focused discussion groups to help people improve their businesses
I talked to Sushil Thaker, the Vice President of Avanti Finance on my podcast (link in the comments) to better understand how #microfinance institutions function on a deeper level, how they sustain themselves and much more.
If you want to understand macro, there’s no way you can do so without understanding micro.
Do check it out for some really valuable insights that might help you in your pursuit of entrepreneurship.
Also check out,
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/microfinance.asp
Microcredit was a hugely hyped solution to global poverty. What happened?: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/15/18182167/microcredit-microfinance-poverty-grameen-bank-yunus
Challenges faced by Microfinance Institutions ; https://www.nelito.com/blog/challenges-faced-microfinance-institutions.html
Advantages and Disadvantages of Microfinance Companies : https://enterslice.com/learning/advantages-disadvantages-microfinance-companies/
What is microfinance and how it changed the world: https://www.lifegate.com/microfinance
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Impact of modern education on learning, cognition and originality.
We all agree to the fact that there is something wrong with the education system. Even I feel the same but I really do not what exactly is wrong with it. I was exploring this question from some time. In the process of exploring this question, I got to know about KB Jinan. KB Jinan has been exploring biological roots of learning from past 30 years and has been vocal about how modern education damages child’s brain and originality. He also has been researching about how to rediscover reimagine education paradigm from teaching to learning. I enjoyed talking to him and I hope you guys too.
Also check out,
www.jinankb.in
https://existentialknowledgefoundation.org/people.html
KB Jinan's Reflections: http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/lsreflections_jinan.htm
De- Academizing Knowledge and De- Institutionalising Learning : Webinar with KB Jinan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK38ZjQVaA4
Modern Toys kill the imagination by Jinan KB | Simple Parenting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCKKv-54n7s
Re imagining learning, knowing, Being: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aek6X_2K2g
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Building playgrounds to bring back play
There are lot of non profits and NGOs work in education sector. Majority of them work in areas like teacher training, curriculum building, parent engagement but a vey few them work towards bringing back play to school. These days play in playgrounds has become a rare reality. Today, I talk to Pooja Rai of Anthill Creations, an organisation which is working towards solving this problem by building playgrounds in schools and communities. Anthill Creations is a not for profit organisation which aims to bring back play for all age groups by building sustainable playscapes, using contextual designs and localized resources and encouraging community participation.
Also check out,
https://anthillcreations.org/
How 5 IIT graduates are changing the way slum kids play : https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/how-5-iit-graduates-are-changing-the-way-slum-kids-play/articleshow/58979866.cms?from=mdr
Old tyres get a second run in playgrounds : https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/business-of-life/old-tyres-get-a-second-run-in-playgrounds-1556785122060.html
Like them on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/anthillcreations
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Political Satire in India
We all know about the state of media in our country. In the time of messy news debates and senseless sensationalism, there are very few independent news websites and youtube channels that are trying to play a fair game to provide the right information,facts and analysis. Today we talk to someone who belong this small group but does things diffetenrtly, he is a political satirist. Hold on your questions there and start listening the podcast.
Akash Banerjee, founder and host of India's biggest Political Satire platform, The Deshbhakt joins Pranay to talk about political satire, the process of using satire to make a point and the future of political satire in India.
Subscribe to The Deshbhakt: https://www.youtube.com/user/akashban
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Transforming a government school
The condition of the Indian government schools is pathetic. A lot of us have the privilege to not go to government schools but unfortunately, 65% of all school-going children continue to get their education from government schools. It is high time we start looking into changing these sub standard schools and make sure every one in the country gets proper education. Today, we talk to Mainak Roy, founder and Ceo of Simple Education Foundation about how they are transforming government schools. Lets find out more about their work
Also Check it out: https://simpleeducationfoundation.org/
This Organisation In Delhi Is Changing The Face Of Public Education For The Underprivileged :https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2018/06/my-story-of-inspiration/
Teaching: A Two Way Street | Mainak Roy | TEDxBDSIS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9-yZHaUJow&t=644s
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