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Webinar | Reading to Learn

Participants: KP Mohanan, Pallavi Naik, Tara Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Jun 19 2021

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, Jun 19 2021

We have all learned to read. But do we read to learn?
In the era of fake news, how do we sift through what we read to get credible news and reliable knowledge?

To receive an email reminder before the event begins, please register here.

Links to live stream:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ThinQ.edu/posts/4704999489529299
YouTube - https://youtu.be/6C0TPHkzqcY

 

Webinar - What Should I Learn?

Participants:

Start Time (IST): 11:00 AM, May 1 2021

End Time (IST): 12:00 PM, May 1 2021

How should I choose what to learn? How should I equip myself with the abilities I would need to learn whatever I want to? 

Whether you are a high school student contemplating your college options, a person who wants to continue learning at your job, a parent wishing to figure out how to best raise your child, you must have asked yourself these questions at some point!

Join Lakshmi and Mohanan in conversation with our special guest, Bhushan Patwardhan to discuss these questions and more. 

Panelists:

Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, former Vice-Chairman of the UGC
Dr Lakshmi V, Vice President, Tiger Analytics LLP
Dr KP Mohanan, co-founder, ThinQ

Watch a recording of the webinar here - https://youtu.be/yx3PvLirh-g

 

Inquiry Webinar | Tongue Twisters and Brain Twisters

Participants: KP Mohanan, Shamli Manasvi, Madhav Kaushish

Start Time (IST): 11:00 AM, Apr 25 2021

End Time (IST): 12:00 PM, Apr 25 2021

There's so much we don't know about the way in which our minds, brains, and bodies work. In this webinar, we will see what it means to inquire into a question.

Join us on Sunday, 25th April at 11 am.
Live on Facebook and YouTube.

The only things you need to bring are minds and tongues, ready to be twisted!
Age group: 15-105

You can watch a recording of the webinar here - https://youtu.be/PIlVCQJOlN0

Why Mathematics?

Participants:

Start Time (IST): 11:00 AM, Apr 17 2021

End Time (IST): 12:00 PM, Apr 17 2021

Register here - https://forms.gle/Zt5niQMSczgt65n26

Panelists:
R Ramanujam, Professor, IMSc Chennai
KP Mohanan, Co-founder, ThinQ
Madhav Kaushish, Co-founder, ThinQ

People often say things like, ‘I’m not a mathematics person. I can’t do mathematics’. That is probably true if you think of mathematics as number crunching or following algorithms. However, that is a very narrow way of thinking about the discipline. Mathematics, by its very nature, is one of the most creative of disciplines. We are not constrained by the empirical world while doing mathematics - only by the limitations of our minds.

In this chat, we will explore a few questions including:

  1. What is mathematics?
  2. Why do we need to learn mathematics - what should be the goals of mathematics education?
  3. How can we become better mathematicians and help others do the same?

If you enjoy mathematics, you will have fun talking about it. If you think you do not, our hidden agenda is to convert you to someone who loves mathematics!

Learning to Learn - A LIVE Chat

Participants: KP Mohanan, Tara Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Apr 10 2021

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, Apr 10 2021

What does it mean to be a good learner? Can we actually learn how to become one? 

Join Siddharth, Mo, and Tara for a live chat on Saturday, to discuss these questions, and learn more about our annual online course, Inquiry and Integration in Education (IIE) 2021. 

 

Register here - https://forms.gle/r3UYHbKWiek9TfnNA

 

Links:

YouTube - https://youtu.be/3WBNG4AiK7A

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/908237925872160/posts/4482721558423761/

Q&A with Tara and Mohanan for Linguistics Students

Participants: KP Mohanan, Anjali N, Tara Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 4:00 PM, Nov 4 2020

End Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Nov 4 2020

On 28th October 2020, Tara and Mohanan had a conversation with students on linguistics on theoretical issues in phonology and phonetics. 

Tara and Mohanan will be available for a Q & A session for linguistics students.

Click on the title for the link to the IndoPhon talk and a recording of Q&A session.

Part 2 | Critical Thinking: From NEP to Student Learning

Participants: Ramesh, KP Mohanan, Palaniappan A, Tara Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Aug 29 2020

End Time (IST): 6:30 PM, Aug 25 2020

In our next webinar, we bring the discussion about critical thinking into the classroom.

We discuss the goals and challenges of critical thinking with school administrators and expert teachers!

Watch the recording of the webinar at https://youtu.be/SPZYOaT8--4

Streamed Live at www.youtube.com/ThinQ_Ed
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Critical Thinking: From NEP to Student Learning

Participants: Sriram, KP Mohanan, Subir Shukla, Tara Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Aug 22 2020

End Time (IST): 6:30 PM, Aug 22 2020

NEP 2020 says helping learners acquire critical thinking abilities is a high priority for Indian education.

How do we achieve this goal?
What stands in the way?
How do we overcome the obstacles?

Watch the recording of the webinar at https://youtu.be/FNdfKvSl448

Streamed Live at www.youtube.com/ThinQ_Ed
Subscribe and hit the bell icon to be notified about future livestreams.

Inquiry Webinar 6 - Designing Experiments

Participants: Aditi Ahuja, Madhav Kaushish, Tara Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 11:00 AM, Jul 12 2020

End Time (IST): 12:00 PM, Jul 12 2020

Zoya and Aryan each bought a jasmine plant of the same variety. When the plants bloomed, Zoya's flowers were fragrant, but Aryan's flowers were not.
What caused this to happen? 
 

Inquiry Webinar 5 - What is a Scientific Theory

Participants: Aditi Ahuja, Madhav Kaushish

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Jun 14 2020

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, Jun 14 2020

All of us have heard the word 'theory' used in contexts like 'Theory of Relativity' or 'Theory of Mind'. You may have even heard people say that 'gravity' is 'just a theory'.
So, what is a theory? More specifically, what is a 'scientific theory'?
Join us in exploring these questions, as we show you how to construct your own rudimentary scientific theories.
 

 

FACE - ThinQ - TNTEU Webinar on Enhancing Classroom Effectiveness by Facilitating Thinking

Participants: Aditi Ahuja, Ramesh, KP Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 3:00 PM, May 26 2020

End Time (IST): 4:00 PM, May 26 2020

During this session, we went through examples of activities that can be done in the classroom with topics that are covered as a part of the school syllabus, and demonstrated ways in which it is possible to go beyond the scope of the textbook to help children think actively.

 

 

Webinar for Parents 1

Participants: Vaideesh, Sriram

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, May 6 2020

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, May 6 2020

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings" - Ann Landers 

While success could be defined differently by everyone, as parents we give our best to our children when we teach them to be inquisitive. This will come from questioning and inquiring. 
Come join us as we discuss how, as parents, we can fan the flame of innate curiosity of our children. 

A recording of the webinar can be found here.

Inquiry Webinar 4 - Exploring Ethics through Reasoning

Participants: Aditi Ahuja, KP Mohanan, Madhav Kaushish, Vignesh

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, May 3 2020

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, May 3 2020

We constantly, and often subconsciously, make judgements about people and their actions - whether what they said or did was ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.

Is there a way to figure out the principles, assumptions and reasoning behind our judgements? 

If others don’t agree with our judgements, how do we resolve the differences?

A recording of the Webinar can be found here.

ThinQ-FACE Webinar - Developing Thinking Abilities Relevant for Engineering Education

Participants: Vaideesh, KP Mohanan, Vignesh

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Apr 28 2020

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, Apr 28 2020

A Bachelor's program in Engineering should empower learners to function well in their jobs as Engineers, and at the same time, function well as educated people in their professional, public, and personal lives. How do we satisfy these two expectations?

A recording of the Webinar can be found here.

Inquiry Webinar 3 - How to Think Like a Mathematician

Participants: Sanan Shankar, KP Mohanan, Shamli Manasvi, Madhav Kaushish

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Apr 26 2020

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, Apr 26 2020

Engage with the youngest and oldest members of the ThinQ collective as they work through the process of justifying claims in mathematics, sometimes with the help of all their grandmothers! 

A session for learners who want to explore the world of mathematics by inquiring.

A recording of the Webinar can be found here.

Inquiry Webinar 2 - Historical Inquiry

Participants: Aditi Ahuja, Vaideesh, KP Mohanan, Madhav Kaushish

Start Time (IST): 11:00 AM, Apr 19 2020

End Time (IST): 12:00 PM, Apr 19 2020

When we told a 5-year-old recently that there was a time when there were no smartphones, she refused to believe us. This left some members of ThinQ very puzzled, so we decided to investigate.

How can we prove that there was actually a time when there were no smartphones? In this webinar, we explored how historians think and inquire into the past.

Click here to access the recording of this webinar.

Webinar for Educators 1 - Purpose of Education

Participants: Aditi Ahuja, Rashmi Jejurikar, KP Mohanan, Tara Mohanan

Start Time (IST): 5:00 PM, Apr 16 2020

End Time (IST): 6:00 PM, Apr 16 2020

Ever wondered what ought to be the purpose of education? How can people interested in providing good education enable themselves to do so? These are some of the questions we discussed in this webinar.

The panel has Dr. Tara Mohanan, Dr KP Mohanan, Rashmi Jejurikar and Aditi Ahuja. All of them are members of ThinQ.

Click here to access the recording of this webinar.

 

Inquiry Webinar 1 - Definitions

Participants: Rashmi Jejurikar, Vaideesh, KP Mohanan, Madhav Kaushish

Start Time (IST): 11:00 AM, Apr 12 2020

End Time (IST): 12:00 PM, Apr 12 2020

If we say that an object is a solid if it has a fixed shape, and a liquid takes the shape of the container, is a mound of sand a solid or a liquid? What about a soap bubble? How can we construct rigorous definitions to understand the world around us in a better way? These are some of the questions we discussed in this webinar.

The panel has Madhav Kaushish, Dr KP Mohanan, Rashmi Jejurikar and S. Vaideeshwaran. All of them are members of ThinQ.

Click here to access the recording of this webinar.