When Mothers Become Mentors: Maharashtra's Ground-Up Literacy Revolution

People catching up, some 50 years later.

I've been reflecting on this lately: Direct instruction isn't "drill and kill"—it's precision teaching. When teachers model skills, provide guided practice, and offer immediate feedback, students learn faster and retain more. We need to stop apologizing for clear, structured

The brain is a complex organ. Our understanding of how it works is constantly evolving. We must therefore not take any theory as “cast in stone”. Educational giants can also go wrong. Take what’s relevant given our understanding of the brain today, and discard what’s not.

Very interesting. Why AI may not be capable of what humans do (from a biological perspective).

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But at least the students look engaged right? 😭

There is potential creative tension in seemingly opposing theories. Here's one such debate (though rarely discussed, as 'certainty' gets you 'high'). Computational efficiency v. Desirable Difficulties. From Organise Ideas.

NEW - A response to *that* paper on AI and 'cognitive debt' Link in reply

The most powerful finding in all of cognitive load theory:

“Machine learning thrives on pattern recognition. It adjusts inputs to optimize outputs. But human learning is not merely reactive. It is reflective, imaginative, and deeply contingent on context. Human learners improvise in ways that machines do not yet comprehend.”

From the latest edu-snippets! scienceoflearning.substack.com/p/edu-snippets… Jim Hewitt

American historian Walter Hauser's family scatters ashes in Ganga, honoring his 60-year devotion to researching Swami Sahajanand Saraswati and peasant movements in India.

Nuclear is back. Manufacturing is back. Indian defence is back. Hard jobs are back. We're so back.

“Why storing knowledge in our own memory is crucial.” A very interesting and enlightening paper on the impact of outsourcing the learning process to AI. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Did you realise split-attention is transient info in disguise? Just as a movie frame disappears from view (causing trans info effect) so does a map as you turn your head to read the key. Same simple principle:out of sight, out of mind.

Kudos to NCERT for finally doing what should’ve been done decades ago, rooting science education in India’s own intellectual traditions. The new Class 8 textbook bridges the past and future with rigour and pride.

It’s all about dose! “Math instruction is dose dependent. The more Math instruction a student receives, the better they perform…” pedagogynongrata.com/tablets

Project Alankar, under the PM SHRI Yojana, is transforming the face of education in Uttar Pradesh. From smart classrooms to modern computer labs and state-of-the-art science laboratories, traditional chalk-and-talk is making way for interactive, tech-driven learning. With a