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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away FOCUS. LEARN. MASTER from you. -B B King FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2020 03

Months: How Covid Birthed Digital Classrooms

s teachers adopted the According to teachers, even if highly dependent on gadgets and ‘new normal’ the Covid scenario is resolved, the e-learning tools, say teachers. Cor- overnight in March online medium of education has roborating this point, Anju Seth, this year and played opened new doors for the educa- director,IIM-Calcutta, says: “Tech- A ‘covid warriors’ in tional world. “After we return to nological developments and digi- the educational space, they had one regular classrooms, things are not tisation are key drivers of change, thing to learn through the nine going to go as they enable the development of HOW TO BUILD A HAPPY E-CLASS WITHOUT A GLITCH months of e-classroom teaching – back to highly-customised content and one can only ‘control the control- widen options for delivering learn- Times NIE talks to tech experts on the essentials for a digital classroom set-up lable’. ing material to students.” Amid losing network connec- Even technology firms are bandwidth of 8Mbps minimum is ave a designated tivity,children not unmuting while gearing up to the opportunity answering questions and innu- of providing new learning op- Arequired for a stable video Hspace for the merable glitches, the teachers rose portunities for educationists call per device. This means that if virtual classroom. It to the challenges imposed by the to explore. David Hollands, it is a family of four with 4 should be a well-lit pandemic and continued impart- Education Strategy Manag- ing education seamlessly. er – Asia Pacific and Japan, devices running at the same time, then you need space. You may “This has been an enriching HP,says that the firm is con- 32Mbps. If there is a lot of video calls invest in new equip- experience for us. We had to force stantly working with educa- happening, then opt for a minimum of 50 Mbps for ment such as camera, white board, headsets ourselves out of the comfort zones tional policy makers and gov- and innovate, and upskill,” says ernments to develop educa- smooth, uninterrupted streaming. for high quality synchronous instructions. Simply Dadiala, teacher,DPS, Vas- tional programs, solutions and ant Vihar,adding that while teach- insights. “We plan to share eep your visible work area referably, raise ers are used to eye-contact and per- our insights, research analy- the web cam up to sonal conversations with students, sis, effective technology solutions K clutter free. This is not just P one learnt how to adapt to this new chalk-and-board again. Hybrid will for schools with the educational so that your house looks neat eye level so that the scenario. What’s most be the king. However, the value of fraternity, as a part of our en- but also to avoid distraction student can see you beautiful, according to peer learning and live classroom deavour to improve the learning Dadiala, was that interaction will not go away. In- outcome of students,” he says. amid online teaching. clearly. t is important that learning became teresting new hybrid models will Keeping the momentum alive I teachers set expec- a two-way emerge. This will give rise to a new of finding solutions for teachers, tations, goals and process, wherein generation of teachers and learn- The Times of Newspaper in o avoid embarrassing glitches and unnecessary waste the tech-savvy ers. Finally,the future will belong Education in with HP T of time, test your class before you start the class. routine. Even if the students also to those who question their as- present to you….. Teachers should consider doing a run through of their student is not helped them in sumptions early and bring curios- physically present, it is troubleshoot- ity and experimentation of a child Reinvent the Classroom - an lessons before live streaming or recording them. Taking ing when to tomorrow’s possibilities,” says exclusive event for school these steps can help minimise the amount of trou- important that there is teachers Ranjan Banerjee, dean, Bhavan’s principals and administrators. To bleshooting they have to do throughout the day and can a regimen to be fol- faced SPJIMR. lowed with discipline. prob- In fact, technology will get a know more and register, visit make them feel more confident with online teaching. lems. boost as teachers are going to be https://reinventtheclassroom.in/.

MALARIA FIGHTING DRONE OUR MEMORIES FORM THE BASIS OF OUR SENSE OF WHAT IS IT? HOW I WENT PAY ATTENTION, ■ Lakhs of people die of ABOUT IT: SELF, INFLUENCE OUR malaria ever year THOUGHTS, DECISIONS ■ I spent a lot of time learning about across the world. The UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), the AND ALLOW US TO LEARN. disease spreads mostly electronics, mechanical structure and CONCENTRATE, due to stagnant water the coding behind it from trusted web- A GOOD MEMORY IS OF in fields. sites and books. UTMOST IMPORTANCE. ■ These areas need to ■ After a lot of hard work, I designed be treated to check the HERE ARE SOME and completed my prototype with an TO BOOST MEMORY spread of the disease. overall cost of Rs 20,000 and tested it a STRATEGIES TO ■ As manual labour is number of times for determining its time-consuming and the accuracy in performing the task given to EFFECTIVELY IMPROVE use of helicopters to it , which was very precise and worked YOUR MEMORY: spray the agent is out without a problem. expensive, I thought of the idea of the MORE FACTS Autonomous Malaria ■ This Autonomous drone can fly without Avoid bright Fighting Drone. a remote and this makes it extremely screens before bed ■ It is a Quadrocopter easy to operate especially for farmers. equipped with a spray- he blue light emitted by ■ Because of its portability, overall ing system. It can gadgets affects your price, and swiftness in moving around, it T spray any liquid sleep-wake cycle. Without enough spray fertilisers/pesti- is a great alternative to human labour over vast Attention sleep you cannot coordinate cides or any other bio- and costly machines. stretches of or information to information properly, so turn off logical agent over a ■ This drone automatically returns to its land very move from short-term your gadgets and allow your particular area. launch position when its battery is low F quickly. memory to long-term brain to unwind an hour before ■ Global positioning or the biological agent is finished. ■ It has memory ‘Attention’ is a bedtime. system (GPS) is used ■ As per repetitive tests (over 25 tests), self-driving must. Try to study in a to give the coordi- this drone can achieve a speed of 6 m/s capability. It place free of distractions nates of the destina- in ideal weather conditions and default can move to a such as television, music, tion which can be a sin- settings . However, switching the system certain loca- and other diversions. Visualise gle point or an area to sports mode can make the drone fly tion, hover or concepts present in the map. even over 10 m/s. isualising information WHAT I NEEDED will greatly benefit. WHAT WE LEARN V ■ Pay attention to photo- The flight-controller is APM 2.6 and it is pro- ■ We can understand how the graphs and charts in your Healthy food and grammed using the Mission Planner (Ardupilot) electronic components and mod- textbooks and utilise software. ules interact with each other to positive imagery or proper exercise ■ Some of the other important parts were: The Repeat produce a meaningful . humour. nclude green leafy vegetables, Telemetry Module, GPS Module, Brushless DC ■ We can learn a lot about pro- hen you learn I berries, nuts and fish that are Motors, 30 A ESC (Electronic Speed Controller), Fly gramming, PID (Proportional Structure and W something new, rich source of Omega 3 fatty Sky 6-channel Radio Receiver, SG90 servo, Integral Derivative) implementation in projects, receiving data from you are more likely acids in your meal plan. Try to Pressure pump, 2200 mah 30 C lipo battery and a the mobile via Telemetry and several other coding skills as a major organise to record the avoid intense sugar and homemade custom designed frame respectively. part of the project depends on how you programme it. processed food. ■ nformation is organised information if it is The Drone can receive a pre-programmed mis- ■ We also learn about designing mechanical structures, Physical exercising Iin memory, in related repeated. Repetition sion via the Telemetry module , which can be con- radio communication , GPS tracking, electronics and a lot of other has been shown to clusters. Take advantage of reinforces the con- nected directly to a Smartphone/Laptop. It will interesting stuff. this and group similar con- nections we create have cognitive then autonomously start spraying the biological ■ We learn to debug a problem as lots of malfunctioning and cepts and terms together. between neurons. benefits. agent over the pre-programmed area and will return to it's launch position after completing it. crashes take place when you develop a project like this and ultimately you find the solution. Dr Amrutha Vijayan, Psychologist & Student Counsellor, The Choice School, Ernakulam Sagnic Basu, Class XII, Section - Science, St Augustine's Day School (Shyamnagar), Kolkata “Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion” Michael Jordan, former basketball player SIMPLY SPORTS 04 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Team India scripted a maiden test series win when they defeated 2-1 in the 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. As the -led side gets ready to take on Baggy green on Australian soil, here’s a look at the top performers from the historic Test series triumph on the Australian soil...

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC- THE NEW WALL- THE APPRENTICE- VIRAT KOHLI

Ruthless aggression was on dis- It was Cheteshwar Pujara who Exciting young prospect play throughout the series as fashioned India’s historic Rishabh Pant was a revela- skipper Kohli led the visitors from series triumph in Australia. tion for the visitors in the front in the 2018-19 series. Pujara not only finished as their previous tour Down Kohli finished the series as India’s top scorer in the four- Under. Besides exchanging India’s third-highest scorer match series, but the Indian bats- jibes with Australian crick- with 282 runs from seven man piled up runs by the barrel and eters back and forth, Pant innings. Widely regarded as slammed three memorable centuries let his bat do all the major one of the greatest bats- against the Aussies. With a highest- talking in the four-Test match men across all formats, it score of 193, Pujara amassed 521 runs series. The promising young tal- was in the 2nd Test at Perth and was rewarded with the Man of the ent scored an unbeaten 159 in the when King Kohli Series honour. Pujara rightfully fourth and final Test which notched up his 25th earned the tag of The New Wall ended in a draw. Pant signed Test (123) with his masterclass off as the second-highest even though it against Australia in the scorer (350) for Kohli-led came in a losing 2018-19 series. Team India and also cause. With an cemented his place overall 2-1 result in the whites at against the THE WRECKER-IN-CHIEF- the time. Baggy Greens, the charismatic leader of Team While Pujara delivered the goods with the willow, India became the speed merchant Jasprit Bumrah ran rings around the first Asian Australian batsmen and capped off a memorable Test to win a Test series series against the Paine-led side. The Indian pacer in Australia. was the pick of the bowlers for the Kohli-led side in the 2018-19 series. Bumrah was India's wrecker-in-chief as the Indian pacer bagged 21 along with a mem- orable five- haul. Interestingly, Bumrah’s 21-wicket tally was matched by Australian spinner in the same series. Bumrah was equally supported by and as the pacers plucked 16 and 11 wickets respectively.

Spain thrash Germany to Medvedev stuns Djokovic to book still valuable in T20 last-4 berth at ATP Finals enter Nations League semis Photo: PTI Internationals Daniil Medvedev has guaranteed his place in the semi-finals at the ongoing omelu Lukaku underlined his Mohammed status as Belgium’s key attack- ATP Finals as the Russia R er with two goals to help his team Kaif fourth seed stunned world book their place in next year’s Nations League finals with a 4-2 home victory number one Novak over Denmark. Lukaku extended his Djokovic 6-3, 6-3 in their record scoring form for his country latest encounter. with a second-half double as Youri Tielemans and Kevin De Bruyne also Medvedev, who lost all netted for Belgium. three group matches in last year's season finale, had claimed his first To be completely honest, HIGHLIGHTS victory in the tournament I am sure he didn't play two days ago by beating his best today. But it Italy beat Bosnia 2-0 happens to everybody. I 2018 champion Alexander always say the Big Three England beat Iceland 4-0 Zverev in straight sets. IANS are the champions Romelu Lukaku because it happens Israel beat Scotland 1-0 less for them than for other players. Netherlands defeated Poland 2-1 Photo: ANI DANIIL MEDVEDEV Photo: ANI Daniil Medvedev

In how many Test matches Dhawan has made seven is currently Q5: did Dhawan make 2315 Q7: centuries in Tests and Q11: playing for which IPL team? runs? ______centuries in ODIs. a) Super Kings ❑ b) Indians ❑ c) Capitals ❑ d) None of the above ❑ TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE a) 30 ❑ b) 32 ❑ c) 34 ❑ d) 36 ❑ a) 17 ❑ b) 20 ❑ c) 23 ❑ d) 27 ❑

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