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Origami is not just about craft for kids! Origami ideas have gone into making the foldoscope; solar panels on satellites.

Were you explosed to Origami in college or school?

(paper folding)
#OrigamiMarvels

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#OrigamiMarvels boomerang

Imagine the amount of spatial skills + science + geometry which can be picked up via these curiosity-generating exercises

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#OrigamiMarvels #ComputationalThinking

Flexagon!

HexaHexaflexagon is also a great way to introduce the idea of state machines and automata :)
teachinglondoncomputing.org/computational-…

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#OrigamiMarvels

Instead of a lot of messy craft work (with pointless paper/cloth decoration) makes sense to have #origami based paper folding

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No shortage of super affordable books in India - can be prescribed till grade 8 or 5

#Origami

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Dual degrees were rolled out without sufficient thought & ended up getting a bad name; many places stopped these programs. But for those in a stream of interest, dual-programs open up a whole lot of options. BTechs graduate with just 1 focused yr (3rd yr). Momentum disrupted.
..ctd

source: facebook.com/awaaziitkgp/ph…

But the dual degree in some places is a nightmare.
IIIT-Hyd folk routinely take 6-7 years. Unrealistic expectations about publishing papers. But that's a private institution, not a JNU with guaranteed taxpayer funding to lifelong-students.
The best way forward will be to
(a) permit students to leave after 5 or 5.5 yrs with the UG degree, if their requirements for the ME or MTech are not completed.
(b) Allow the MS-MTech-ME in areas different from the UG if some pre-reqs have been completed
(c) No-thesis option
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One important topic which never gets sufficient attention in curriculum design (school & university)

Does a series vs parallel arrangement matter?
For eg: 10 chapters of Phy, chem, bio
is it better/worse to do them as 30 chapters, 1 after the other (Science) or tri-forked PCB
same for history & geography.
Better to split them & run H&G in parallel; or does it make sense to do them one after the other (assuming total workload same in each case)
Parallel = mental clutter?

Don't think of CBSE-ICSE Sci
'coz for PCB (9-10) latter has 2.5-3x the portion
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Strange. No shortage of "deep programs" esp in the arts, in our country. A big fail, even those with 95% cutoffs.
A cocktail of 4 courses from 5 areas each might very well be a better base, nowadays. 1 yr of intense independent reading can provide depth.
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Initial glitches and hitches will always be there but for those who can afford it, Ashoka will make a lot more sense than a traditional Mumbai or Calcutta University college. Their pricing point will also end up giving you a better professional network.

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