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Explore Session - For Contextualized Curriculum Design

“Talking to those for whom you are designing it” Have we ever asked a child what he/she wants to study, be it any subject, any class, or any grades? It sounds a little bit different and difficult, why? Mostly because it has not been the practice, maybe we are not sure about our children, they can ask for something which we don’t want to teach or maybe we wouldn’t be able to provide. The traditional way of doing things is easy, it gives clarity during the path, it is certain and uncertainty is known because the process has been done so many times. The non-traditional way of doing things is not so common among us, the idea of out-of-the-box thinking sounds great but working on this philosophy has many challenges of its own. We talk to teachers before doing anything for them, that’s the core of our philosophy, while we start designing the program we were talking to a group of rural teachers and the question was- how do we teach computer science to students who have never learned or used c...