Moby in Mumbai – One School’s Response to BrainPOP
March 12, 2012
At the end of January and beginning of February, I had the privilege to take an educational tour through seven cities in India. While visiting schools, universities, educational reform organization and companies, I shared my love for BrainPOP with everyone! One particularly interesting government school in Mumbai was run in conjunction with a community based project called Muktangan. This school not only educates k-8 students, but also houses a teacher training institute that employs many of the progressive approaches we see in the best schools in the US. I noticed a number of children on computers, so I shared a BrainPOP trial with the school and asked for their feedback. Last week, Uma Kogekar, the instructional technologist at one of the seven Muktangan schools, sent me a message describing teachers’ reaction after a few weeks of using BrainPOP. Ritu, a faculty member in the Education Department who works with pre-service teachers, says, “The trainees will use it to practice grammar!” This was echoed by Avni, a faculty member from the Language Dept, “BrainPOPESL can be used for English proficiency classes with our teachers!” Jennifer, also from the Language Department wrote, “We showed the Shakespeare movie to the kids as we are doing… Read the Rest»
