Learning to Self - Learn : L2SL

✒️ About the Program -
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The NEP 2020 at para 4.6 states that its thrust will be to move the education system towards real understanding and learning how to learn – and away from the culture of rote learning. Its goal will be to create holistic and well-rounded individuals equipped with key 21st-century skills. Self-Learning is perhaps the most important 21st Century Skill. Once a person has ‘learnt how to learn’ the person is on the way to become a self-learner. Robert Frost, the famous poet and Professor said “ I am not a teacher, I am an awakener”. And Richard Feynman in his famous “Lectures on Physics” quoted Edward Gibbons ‘ and the power of instruction is of little efficacy except in those fortunate dispositions, where it is almost superfluous’.

This course begins with drawing attention to the significance of self-learning, describes the attributes of successful self-learners, illustrates how technology in general, and AI in particular can help in making a better self-learner, and concludes with sharing the techniques ( or you may call them the toolkit) for becoming a successful self-learner.

👩‍💻 The Methodology -
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This is a one month ( 4 weeks) program with approximately one hour sessions  from Monday to Friday every week, a total of 20 sessions. There are suggestions for activities to be carried out by the learners during each of the four weeks. The weekends are for reflection and practicing the principles, practices and techniques shared during the week. Guidance is also provided for weekend activities for three weekends. The fourth weekend may be used to peruse additional resources, and develop a personal learning plan and “to learn” lists for the future.

👉 Course Access and Delivery Process -
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A WhatsApp group will be created for each edition of the program. The group formation is not contingent on a minimum number being enrolled. The program will be delivered, even if there is only one participant, enrolled, for a particular week

At a time that will be announced in the WhatsApp group, I will be posting content. The posts may consist of of text, images of PowerPoint slides, my audios, videos or curated videos.
If any course participant has a query, question or observation, and if it concerns the whole group, (s)he may raise it, instantly, within the Group.
However, if it is meant as a message to the Course Administrator only, please prefer sending a direct message, rather than posting it in the group.
If I can make a quick, short and effective response, without losing the thread of the conversation,I will respond immediately, else I will pool such responses and make a special additional post
All the posts and conversations (including audio) will remain with you until you consciously and  deliberately delete them. This is the greatest advantage of this method.

🎯 Program Structure -
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🔸 Week 1: Self-learning: the most important 21st Century skill?
◾ L2SL1: Drivers of self-learning
◾ L2SL2: Examples of well known self-learners
◾ L2SL3: Mindsets and other barriers to self-learning
◾ L2SL4: Self-learning as a vaccine against ‘uselessness’
◾ L2SL5: Range : Why generalists succeed ? David Epstein

1️⃣ 01st Weekend -
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◾ Activity 1: Identifying your strengths and weaknesses for self-learning
◾ Activity 2: Explore the meaning of the following terms and their distinctions : idioms, proverbs, sayings…..

Weeklong activities for week 1: write small pieces about 500 words on the following proverbs:
➖ The Apple of discord
➖ An Apple a day keeps the doctor away
➖ One rotten apple spoils the rest
➖ The Apple of one’s eyes
➖ The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

🔸 Week 2: Attributes of a successful self-learner
◾ L2SL6: Motivation
◾ L2SL7: Overcoming Procrastination and efficient time-management
◾ L2SL8: Angela Duckworth: Grit: Focus, perseverance and persistence
◾ L2SL9: Tony Buzan’s Mind-mapping to enhance understanding
◾ L2SL10: Paul Tough : How children succeed? Habits fostering success

2️⃣ 02nd Weekend -
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◾  Activity 3: Learning to read, listen and view.
◾  Activity 4: Draw up a mind-map to explain a mind-map.

Weeklong activities for week 2: write short pieces about 600 words on the following topics :

Why learn Mathematics?
Why learn Physics?
Why learn Chemistry?
Why learn Biology?
Why learn Computers?

🔸 Week 3: Techniques to become a better self-learner
◾  L2SL11: A stepwise approach to self-learning
◾  L2SL12: The Feynman technique to learn anything
◾  L2SL13: Switching between social learning and individual learning
◾  L2SL14: Guy Claxton: Building Learning Power
◾  L2SL15: Scott Young : Ultralearning

3️⃣ 03rd Weekend
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◾  Activity 5: Carrying out an Ultralearning project

Weeklong activities for week 3: write short pieces about 600 words on the following topics :

Why learn Literature?
Why learn Philosophy?
Why learn Psychology?
Why learn Sociology?
Why learn Anthropology?
Week 4: The 21st Century Learner’s Toolkit

◾  L2SL16: Learning from WhatsApp, other mobile apps, Internet and MOOCs
◾  L2SL17: Speech to text, and Text to Speech
◾  L2SL18: Using Automatic Machine Translation
◾  L2SL19: Duolingo for language learning : AI powered apps for learning
◾  L2SL20: What does machine learning inform us about human learning?

Weeklong activities for week 4: write small pieces about 800 words on the following topics :

◾  An investment in education is the best option
◾  What is worth learning, in an uncertain world?
◾  Developing a Scientific temper
◾  The usefulness of useless knowledge
◾  Learning with Social Media

🔸 Programme Schedule -
🗓️ Online Date : 05th April 2021 – 30th April, 2021(Expect Saturday & Sunday)
⏰ Duration - 04Weeks | Timings 04:00 PM – 05:00 PM(IST)
💻 Delivery Platform - Zoom

🎙️ Resource Person -
Prof. M M Pant, Former Pro Vice Chancellor, IGNOU & Brand Ambassador - CED FOUNDATION

🛍️ Take Aways -
       ◾ E-Certificates
       ◾ Session recording
       ◾ FREE Consultancy

🔸 Commitment -
The Foundation will provide you and your school towards the peek of quality bench marking and making a next generation effective school.
💵 Course Fee - Full Course (20Days) - INR 5000

🔏 Registration Process:
1️⃣ Step 1: Fill the Registration Form
2️⃣ Step 2: Make Payment – NEFT/RTGS/IMPS.
3️⃣ Step 3: Share the Payment Receipt at WhatsApp (+91-9068565220)

🌐 Bank Details for Making Payment:
Account Name : CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FT
Account No : 50200037365182
IFSC CODE : HDFC0000851
Bank : HDFC

🔸 Who should join the programme ?
 For Trainers, Teachers, Counsellors & School Leaders

🔏Last Date of Registration – 04th April, 2021