टाकळकरवाडी शाळेच्या आदर्श शिक्षिका स्मिता लोंढे मॅडम यांनी 12 राज्यातून आलेल्या 140 शिक्षकांना खूप छान मार्गदर्शन केले .सर्व मार्गदर्शक शिक्षक हे इंग्रजी माध्यमाच्या शाळेचे होते ,फक्त आपल्या ZP (Zilla Parishad) शाळेच्या एकच शिक्षिका होत्या त्या म्हणजे लोंढे मॅडम .खूप ओघवत्या भाषेत त्यांनी मार्गदर्शन केले . कॉन्फरन्स खूप छान झाली ,विविध राज्यातील शाळा,विद्यार्थी, ...[Read More]
A learning platform for teachers: CTiS2019
Radiant Experience Of CSpathshala
I am Jayashree Mahakalkar from School of Scholars , Beltarodi, Nagpur. We have started implementing CSpathshala activities in Meghe Group of Schools from June 2018. At the beginning of the session 2018-19,our management has introduced one of the interesting activity in our Mathematics curriculum and that was CSpathshala. Our Resource centre arranged workshop to train the teachers for implementatio ...[Read More]
CTiS2019 1st Conference on Computational Thinking in Schools : A report
More than 140 delegates which included teachers, Principals and organisations working in the field of education from 20 cities and 7 states of the country attended CTiS2019 the 1st conference on Computational Thinking in schools which took place on 20th April 2019 at Pune. The conference was organized by CSpathshala (www.cspathshala.org), an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) India initiat ...[Read More]
BebrasIndia Challenge: A Challenge We Overcame!
Dr. KalmadiShamarao High School, Ganesh Nagar , Pune We had registered all the students of class 7 to class 9 for Bebras India Challenge. We have a lab with 60 computers, that looks pretty easy to conduct any online test for the students. But when it comes to all the six divisions(45 students per division) for all the standards, the adjustments in the timetable becomes too difficult. Specia ...[Read More]
From Pilot Implementation to the First Conference in Computational Thinking in Schools (CTiS) – A Volunteer’s Reflection
-Arati Halbe The first conference for Computational Thinking in Schools took place in Pune on 20th April 2019. It seems not long ago when I visited Kalmadi Shamrao Primary School to seek feedback on teaching file systems to the primary students. The teacher told me how the children basically liked the units but found it difficult to understand what a ‘filing cabinet’ is! It was the beginning for t ...[Read More]
Bebras – Providing opportunities to rural students
The medium of instruction is Marathi at the Government Zilla Parishad School at Jaulke khurd, a medium sized village in Khed, Maharashtra. Like most rural areas, this school too lacks adequate infrastructure, with 3 computers (one laptop and 2 desktops), poor connectivity and intermittent supply of electricity. The school conducts competitions after schools hours as an extracurricular activity. Sa ...[Read More]
Mathematical Modeling Series – Introduction
Mathematics is not just limited to a subject of any curriculum rather it can help to model real world situations. These models that are derived using Mathematical language always give concrete and full proof solutions to the problem. However, the real challenge is to transform the problem solving process (design) into mathematical language. My “Mathematical Modeling Series” is small an ...[Read More]
Stories from Government schools, Khed, Maharashtra : 2018 Bebras India Challenge
Bebras (www.bebras.org) is an international student Computational Thinking Challenge organised in over 60 countries and designed to get students all over the world excited about computing. The Bebras tasks tasks are fun, engaging and based on problems that Computer Scientists enjoy solving. These tasks require logical thinking and can be solved without prior knowledge of computational thinking. Th ...[Read More]
Training of Master Trainers for Zilla Parishad Schools, Khed, Maharashtra
CSpathshala Team in partnership with Rotary Club of Pimpri conducted a Training of Master Trainers for 50 teachers from Government schools from Khed Taluka at the Panchayat Samiti, Rajgurunagar on 5th October 2018. Majority were all subject teachers teaching classes 3-8. The training began with an activity on “Guess my birthdate?” which made the teachers think on how best they could eliminate maxi ...[Read More]
Teachers Speak: 2018 Bebras India Challenge
Bebras (www.bebras.org) is an international student Computational Thinking Challenge organised in over 60 countries and designed to get students all over the world excited about computing. Bebras India is brought to you by ACM India’s CSpathshala (www.cspathshala.org) initiative. 2018 Bebras India Challenge was held from 19th – 30th November for age groups 8-18 in English, Gujarati, Marathi and T ...[Read More]