Government schools and Technology

Fourth in the series!

I was under the impression that private school children are far ahead (and have made it mandatory themselves) in making use of technology (such as learning apps, Youtube) to learn their subjects! I was proved wrong by my colleagues' daughters (government school students in higher class) who rely upon YouTube everyday to solve math problems, learn science experiments, etc. SHOCKED I AM!!!😱

More shocking was the added information that their teachers recommended this!! 🙆

Where are the teachers running away from?😓

Are the technology developers influencing/exploiting teachers to use their applications or videos or stuff like that??😲

Is the government insisting on using more technology imagining that it makes classrooms easier for teachers and children and parents too? 😵

Are the schools falling into the trap?😴

People tell me that this school has smart classrooms, that school has many audio visual media, and the other one has Xseed kind of thing for younger children and so I should opt for one such for my daughter. Those moments remind me of movies such as Rough Book (in this, the teacher says Google has all info that one needs, but who would teach the practical application of the same with demo!!!!). True, children need more than just information!!!! only teachers can do it!!!!

I NEED a teacher for my kid (two-way communication) not a tech-medium which is purely one-way!!!

Some would smartly say that teachers are available online 24*7 😮 Who needs them when the other 16 hours are meant for other activities 😆😆😆

Any kid for that matter is already exposed to screens. Watching TV, going to theatres, using mobile phones, tabs, etc. Why would that be a choice again in schools when it could be easily avoided given the beauty of conventional classroom design with noise of children.!?😧

Yes as I began this note, even government schools are falling prey to this market of technology driven teaching (learning!?). But in comparison it is far lesser here than the private schools who run by projecting their tech-savvy growth! Reasons for lesser technology use in government schools range from unavailability of funds, lack of technical expertise and poor infrastructure.. All these run in favour of me 😛 And additionally I have the privilege here to have a dialogue with a government school teacher more frankly to not opt for technology as that can be done at home itself.

It is our decision to choose a teacher (with flesh and blood) who could teach and grow with our kids and letting them learn what life is, what childhood is, what friends are and what society is apart from what math is, alphabet is, science is and social science is!!

YAAAYY government schools have so many positive sides to it 😇😇😇

Rhythm: a journey to cherish

Can someone fall in love with a movie every single time it is watched, discussed or even thought of???

Yes I can 😍 like some of you out there 😎

And the movie I am talking about is "Rhythm"💙💚💛💜💗

This Tamil feature film directed by SM Vasanth almost two decades back takes me (and many more) to a world of love, care, respect, empathy and every other beautiful human emotion!

Heard in one of Vasanth's interviews that Rhythm was supposed to be his first movie!! 😱 What a creator he must be to have conceived such a poetic movie years back! 😻 Sad that neither did the movie nor its creator receive their due celebration then 😔

What's so special about the movie?! 😕

Every frame of it.

👍 Right from the beginning, the title card and its BGM 👂 (ARR😘) There would begin your journey into this lullaby! Trust me, you will get umpteen number of ringtones that would suit most of your contacts 💕 Oh, I forgot.. the actual beauty starts with the TITLE itself.. How fitting it is!! 🙏

💥💧 (other relevant emojis not found 😛) The five songs in the movie rightly bring out the beauty of five elements with excellent picturisation. OMG you will never be able to pick one favorite or give an order of your liking as each of them is a masterpiece! ✌

This movie is for all age groups👦👧👨👩👪👫. Everyone will have something or the other to get connected to.💟

There is no hurry in the movie 😃 there is a serenity 😊 in every dialogue and no character is in haste to just finish it off and get moved to the next frame 😍 (In a place, Chitra would ask Karthikeyan, "what was your appa?", He would reply, "He is retired!" She would say, "I asked what was he, past tense." Those dialogues come with a lot of sense, yet short in length. They give us a deep understanding of what those characters are up to! (I am sure I can write on every single dialogue 😝)

How nice it is to find characters be themselves with their identity right from scene 1!!!! Yet, they flow with the screenplay and its changes. 💪

To fall in love, to be in love and to share love are all beautiful feelings!💓 LOVE is there everywhere, with the elderly couple, with two lead couples and between the mom and the kid.💖 It is lovelier to find it between the lead characters who find their love in one another with utmost beauty, maturity, silence and respect!!!!!💗 Expression/Definition of love by each person (in the movie) is unique and beautiful! AZHAGU!!!💖 One can watch the movie to feel different dimensions of love!!!!

Of course, the landscape the whole movie is set in, be it beauty of Navi Mumbai, our own Chennai city or the serenity of Ooty and its neighbouring towns!👐 Every place gets fixed in our hearts!

Every watcher by end of the movie would fall in love with the boy, Shiva who is amazingly cute throughout!!!! 💓 He effortlessly steals hearts....... His "Karthik Sir" is so warm!!!

There is more and more and more and more....

There is positivity everywhere, there is beauty everywhere, there is love everywhere, there is empathy everywhere, there are humans everywhere!!!! What more can I/anyone ask for!!!!! 😍

Happy Rhythm time! 😉