Category: Education Talk

Class Saathi at Bett Show 2023, London

Posted on by Jasmeet

The Bett Show 2023 was an incredible experience for Class Saathi, the innovative educational platform designed to enhance the learning experience for students and teachers alike. As one of the exhibitors at the event, we had the opportunity to showcase our platform to educators from around the world and demonstrate how it can transform the classroom experience.

TagHive participated in Bett Show 2023 at ExCel London
TagHive participated in Bett Show 2023 at ExCel London

The feedback we received from educators at the Bett Show was overwhelmingly positive, with many expressing excitement about the potential of Class Saathi to revolutionize the way they teach and interact with their students. We were thrilled to see how well-received our platform was and how eager educators were to learn more about its features and capabilities.

Student interacting with Class Saathi at Bett Show 2023
Student interacting with Class Saathi at Bett Show 2023

One of the most significant features of Class Saathi that generated a lot of buzz was its ability to provide real-time feedback to students. This feature allows teachers to analyze student performance and provide personalized feedback on areas where they need improvement. This feature was particularly appealing to educators who recognize the value of immediate feedback in helping students understand a particular topic better.

Our platform’s ability to support collaborative learning was also a big hit at the Bett Show. With a range of tools that enable students to work together on projects and assignments, share resources, and collaborate on group projects, educators recognized the importance of teamwork and communication skills in the modern workplace.

Class Saathi’s gamification features were also well-received at the event, with educators expressing excitement about the potential of using games and other interactive tools to engage students and promote active learning. Our gamification features are designed to reward students for completing tasks and achieving goals, making learning more fun and engaging.

South Korean delegation at Bett Show 2023
South Korean delegation at Bett Show 2023

Overall, Class Saathi’s experience at the Bett Show 2023 was a tremendous success. We were thrilled to be able to showcase our innovative platform to educators from around the world and generate excitement about the potential of our platform to transform the classroom experience.

As we move forward, we are committed to continuing to develop and enhance our platform to provide educators with the tools and resources they need to create engaging lesson plans, track student progress, and communicate with parents. With its advanced features and innovative approach to education, Class Saathi is poised to become one of the most popular and effective tools for teaching in the years to come.

Clickers Promote Academic Success in 4 Ways

Posted on by Jasmeet

Data-driven instruction is an approach to teaching that involves using data to inform instructional decisions. With clicker-based learning, data can be collected and analyzed in real time, allowing teachers to adjust their teaching strategies to better meet the needs of their students. In this article, we will explore the benefits of how clickers promote academic success for all students.

One of the most significant benefits of data-driven instruction for clicker-based learning is the ability to assess student understanding in real time. With clickers, teachers can ask questions and gather responses from all students simultaneously. This enables teachers to see which students are struggling and which are excelling in real time. This data allows teachers to adjust their teaching strategies on the fly and provide students with targeted support when needed.

Class Saathi clickers being used by students in K-8 school in Varanasi
Class Saathi clickers promote academic success

Another benefit of data-driven instruction for clicker-based learning is the ability to personalize instruction. With clickers, teachers can quickly identify which students are struggling with specific concepts or skills. This information allows teachers to provide targeted support to individual students or small groups of students, ensuring that each student is learning at their own pace and level.

Data-driven instruction for clicker-based learning can also help to improve student outcomes. By providing targeted support to struggling students, teachers can help them improve their understanding and achieve better academic outcomes. Additionally, by using data to inform instructional decisions, teachers can ensure that all students are learning at a pace that is appropriate for them, which can lead to better academic outcomes for the entire class.

Data-driven instruction for clicker-based learning can also help teachers to identify areas where their teaching strategies may need improvement. By analyzing student responses to clicker questions, teachers can identify which instructional strategies are most effective and which ones may need to be adjusted. This feedback can help teachers continuously improve their teaching and provide better student learning experiences.

In conclusion, data-driven instruction for clicker-based learning is a powerful teaching approach that can improve student outcomes, personalize instruction, and help teachers identify areas where their teaching strategies may need improvement. With the ability to gather real-time data on student understanding, teachers can adjust their teaching strategies to better meet the needs of their students, ensuring that all students have the support they need to succeed. Data-driven instruction for clicker-based learning can create a dynamic and engaging learning environment that promotes academic success for all students.

TagHive recently got published in ThePrint, Asian News International (ANI) for our collaboration with Arvind Foundation and Ford Foundation to implement Class Saathi in more than 300 schools across India.

Speaking about the collaboration, Niraj Lal, Head CSR of Arvind Ltd., said, “We are very happy to have partnered with TagHive for driving our education-based social impact initiatives. Within just 4 months, we have conducted over 80 assessments, and gained better insights into students’ learning patterns and challenges, compared to traditional methods. Teachers are liking the visual appeal of the solution, how easy it is to upload questions and conduct assessments, and how they can instantly generate class and topic-wise statistics. Students have also been enjoying the learning process, and teachers are appreciating the meaningful impact it has on classroom engagement. This has added a lot more value to the quality of education.”

Read more in the links below:
1. ANI – https://lnkd.in/dj6RnAfX
2. The Print – https://lnkd.in/d3uTNApe

Interactive Lessons with Class Saathi Bluetooth Clickers

Posted on by Jasmeet
Class Saathi Bluetooth Clickers makes classrooms interactive
Interactive Lessons with Class Saathi Bluetooth Clickers

Interactive lessons using Class Saathi Bluetooth clickers have revolutionized the way teachers approach teaching and learning. Our clickers are a form of a student response system that enables teachers to design interactive lessons and quickly gather student responses in real-time. With the ability to instantly gauge student understanding, teachers can adjust their teaching strategies to better meet the needs of their students. In this article, we will explore the benefits of interactive lessons using Class Saathi Bluetooth clickers.

One of the most significant benefits of interactive lessons using Class Saathi Bluetooth clickers is increased student engagement. Interactive lessons make learning more engaging by providing students with an opportunity to actively participate in the lesson. When students are engaged, they are more likely to retain information and apply it in real-life situations.

Our clickers allow teachers to ask questions and gather feedback from students during the lesson. This approach encourages students to think critically, make informed decisions, and participate in the learning process. When students use clickers to answer questions, they receive instant feedback, which can motivate them to continue participating in the lesson.

Another benefit of interactive lessons with Class Saathi clickers is the ability to personalize learning. Teachers can use clickers to gather information about students’ levels of understanding and adjust the lesson accordingly. This approach ensures that every student is learning at a pace that is appropriate for them.

The real-time feedback provided by Class Saathi clickers is invaluable for teachers. It enables them to assess students’ levels of understanding and quickly identify any areas where additional support is required. This information helps teachers to adjust their teaching strategies and provide students with the support they need to succeed.

Interactive lessons with these clickers also foster a sense of community and collaboration in the classroom. Teachers can design interactive lessons that require students to work together to solve problems and answer questions. This approach encourages students to collaborate, communicate, and share ideas. It creates a dynamic and engaging learning environment that helps students to develop valuable teamwork skills.

In conclusion, interactive lessons using Class Saathi Bluetooth clickers are a powerful teaching tool that can promote student engagement, personalization of learning, real-time feedback, and collaboration. They enable teachers to design lessons that actively involve students in the learning process, and provide real-time feedback to help teachers assess student understanding. Interactive lessons with Class Saathi can help to make learning more engaging and effective for all students.

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How Clickers Promote Active Learning?

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Student using the Class Saathi clicker to give responses in an open-book assessment
Student using the Class Saathi clicker to give responses in an open-book assessment

Personalized learning is an educational approach that tailors instruction to the specific needs and interests of individual students. This approach has become increasingly popular in recent years, as technology has made it easier to gather data on student performance and preferences. One technology that has proven particularly useful for personalized active learning is the clicker. If you are wondering how clickers promote active learning keep reading.

Clickers, also known as audience response systems, are handheld devices that students can use to respond to questions or participate in surveys. When used in the classroom, clickers provide teachers with real-time feedback on student understanding, enabling them to adjust their lessons and activities to better meet the needs of individual students. This is where clickers have played a major role in promoting personalized learning.

Students using Class Saathi in Sunbird Trust funded school in Kachayi, Manipur
Students using Class Saathi in Sunbird Trust funded school in Kachayi, Manipur

For example, if a teacher is lecturing on a particular topic and notices that a large number of students are struggling with a particular concept, they can use the clicker data to determine which students need more support thus promoting active learning. They can then pause the lecture and provide additional explanations, examples, or even additional resources, such as videos or articles, to help these students better understand the material.

Teacher using Class Saathi mobile app in Sunbird Trust funded school in Ijeirong, Manipur
Teacher using Class Saathi in Sunbird Trust funded school in Ijeirong, Manipur

Clickers can also be used to track student progress over time, allowing teachers to identify areas where students need additional support. This information can be used to tailor future lessons and activities to better meet the needs of individual students. For example, if a student is struggling with a particular topic, the teacher can assign additional practice problems or provide additional resources to help the student catch up.

Students using Class Saathi in Sunbird Trust funded school in Ijeirong, Manipur
Students using Class Saathi in Sunbird Trust funded school in Ijeirong, Manipur

In addition to helping teachers tailor their lessons, clickers can also be used to engage students and promote active learning. For example, teachers can use clickers to ask questions or create interactive activities that encourage students to think critically and work together. This can help to keep students engaged and motivated, while also promoting their understanding of the material.

In conclusion, the use of clickers in the classroom can provide teachers with valuable insights into student understanding and enable them to better meet the needs of individual students. By promoting personalized learning, clickers can help students to achieve their full potential and become more confident, motivated learners.

Contact our Class Saathi team to support your students and teachers achieve their full potential.

5 Benefits of Gamification in EdTech

Posted on by Jasmeet

Gamification in educational apps has been on the rise in recent years, as more and more ed-tech organizations recognize the potential benefits that this approach can offer to learners. Gamification refers to the process of incorporating game elements, such as points, badges, and leaderboards, into non-game contexts in order to increase engagement and motivation. In the context of educational apps, this can involve incorporating quizzes, puzzles, and other interactive activities that make learning more fun and engaging for users.

Here are 5 broad benefits of gamification in EdTech:

  1. Increased motivation and engagement: Gamification can make learning more fun and interactive, which can help to keep users engaged and motivated to continue learning.
  2. Improved learning outcomes: By making learning more interactive and engaging, gamification can help users to retain information better and apply what they have learned in real-world situations.
  3. Development of problem-solving and critical thinking skills: Gamification can encourage users to think critically and solve problems, which can be valuable in various contexts.
  4. Greater sense of accomplishment and progress: Gamification can help users to feel a greater sense of accomplishment and progress as they complete quizzes, puzzles, and interactive activities, which can further boost motivation and engagement.
  5. Personalized learning: Some educational apps (Class Saathi) can use gamification to provide personalized learning experiences that adapt to the user’s individual strengths and weaknesses. This can help users focus on where they need the most help and make the most progress.

Overall, gamification in educational apps can be a powerful tool for increasing motivation, engagement, and learning outcomes among users. Whether you are a developer looking to create an educational app, or a teacher looking to incorporate gamification into your curriculum, there are many different ways that you can use this approach to make learning more fun and effective for your users.

History of Trigonometry

Posted on by clusterone

Derived from the Greek words trigonon (“triangle”) and metron (“to measure”) trigonometry was chiefly concerned with the computation of numerical values from the absent numerical value of a portion of the triangle (or shapes that could be dismembered into triangles) when the values of other parts were given until the 16th Century. Pythagoras, Aristotle, or the ancient civilization of the Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians may come to mind while looking at the dawn of trigonometry.

Pythagoras, the author of the Pythagorean Theorem, was afraid of beans and had a cult to worship triangles, his followers were not only vegan but also didn’t eat beans because they believed that a part of their soul escaped every time they passed gas. What we traditionally know as the Pythagorean Theorem is that the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of squares of the lengths of the other two sides of the right-angled triangle which is simply formulated as a2 + b2= c2 (for e.g. (3)2+(4)2=(5)2).

The Rhind papyrus (1800 BCE) was an Ancient Egyptian Collection of 84 mathematical problems to the likes as Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry. The Geometry portion also consisted of five issues dealing with the seked or what we now refer to as the hypotenuse.

The 56th problem of the Rhind papyrus was a problem pertaining to a pyramid that was 250 cubits high and 360 cubits long, and the solution of the problem was given as 51/25 palms per cubit, and, since one cubit equals 7 palms, this fraction is equivalent to the pure ratio 18/25. This referred to the “run-to-rise” ratio of the pyramid in question—in effect, the cotangent of the angle between the base and face, from this we can examine the Egyptians’ extent of knowledge of the numerical relations in a triangle along with trigonometry.

Trigonometry in its modern sense began with the Greeks and the construct of the table of values for trigonometric functions was formulated by Hipparchus (120 BCE). He was mainly interested in spherical triangles being an astronomer himself would find fictional triangles shaped by three stars on the celestial sphere. Still, he was also familiar with the basic formulas of plane trigonometry.

The symbols for trigonometry were formulated only in the 17th Century. Ptolemy’s Almagest was the first major ancient work on trigonometry to reach Europe that uses some elementary trigonometry that lead to Ptolemy’s geocentric system being a succession of the heliocentric system of Nicolaus Copernicus.

The Babylonians used the Pythagorean Theorem some 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born. They wrote it down on a tablet now known as Plimpton 322. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Indians all used versions of it centuries before Pythagoras. An ancient Babylonian tablet used the Pythagorean Theorem 1200 years before Pythagoras was born.

India and the Islamic world were also great contributors to trigonometry which makes you wonder about the true importance and value of Mathematics as recent research shows us that 4000 years ago Neanderthals also had a basic sense of Mathematics.

Prevent encouragement from being pressured with these tips!

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Sometimes in the excitement to encourage your child, you may put pressure on them. It can be tricky to toe the line between encouragement and pressure and to help you avoid a troubling situation later, we have put together a list of tips you can use to ensure your child feels only enough pressure to learn and nothing more!

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  1. Do not force your interests on them – It is only natural that you as a parent may want to pass on your passion to your children. However, you must remember that children have their own dynamic interests that you may have no awareness of. See this as an opportunity for you to learn a new skill, hobby, or interest and in doing so, you’re building something in tandem with your child!
  2. Give them space to explore – If you have catered to your child’s interests, be prepared not to see results or performance instantly. Skills and interests need to be honed and honing is a time-intensive process. If you monitor your child for results, then they feel pressured to perform without having had enough time or space to explore these interests and they may feel like they are not good enough to pursue them at all!
  3. Feedback time – One way to really encourage instead of pressure your child is to schedule a regular feedback session with them. Do this exercise once a week so they can tell you where they are struggling, if they need more support from you or if they feel burnt out by their workload. This is also a good time to teach your child that you are open to receiving feedback as well!
  4. Make outdoor activities compulsory – Any type of activity that gives them a break from chasing their academic pursuits should be a mandatory part of their day. Encourage them to fulfil their social needs and play outdoors. Essentially anything that takes them away from the grind at least for some bit of the day!
  5. Give space for failure – This may seem like a tough thing to do but children should be taught to accept failure as part of their learning curve. They feel more encouraged and motivated if there is space to fail along with room to grow. This is all evolutionary and equally important for children to experience.

Giving children space and time is never a threat to their growth. In fact, the only way you can ensure your child learns and learns with passion is if you give them enough space. There will always be times when you will have to step in and take the reins. But remember, pressure makes a diamond only if exerted in controlled measures and that is the kind of encouragement children also need.

How to teach your children foundational numeracy from a young age?

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Foundational numeracy is the ability of a person to understand number systems in ways that are used in everyday life. What it also means is that a person who can make safe financial decisions and make sense of numbers that drives their everyday lives from being able to pay for things, to counting items that they purchase or making solid financial decisions about saving/ spending and the likes. Foundational numeracy relies heavily on a person’s mental Math skills and there are so many fun ways to learn it!

How soon can you teach a child how to do all these things? The answer is at the earliest! Here are some tips that you can use which will help your child not just learn foundational numeracy but also ace at it.

Follow these tips to help your child learn numeracy at a young age:

  1. Leverage the use of money – Currency is a good way to teach numeracy to kids. Children understand spending money to acquire an item of interest. Mix it up with savings and teach them how to manage their finances and boom, you have a successful mission. Help them set up a home savings account. You can also make it creative by helping them maintain a passbook that shows them exactly how much money they have on them. 
  2. Board games – Board games are not just fun, they are also informative. Aside from teaching children the virtue of patience and applied knowledge, what it also does is help students gather more refined skills such as foundational literacy. Invest in games like Monopoly to leverage their interest and then build on it!
  3. Give them minor accounting tasks – If you are at a grocery store and the cashier generates a bill, give it to your child and ask them to help you with calculations. When you’re doing any financial transactions, enlist their help in calculating the amount you need to pay or the amount you need to return. These are great ways in which you can sharpen their mental math skills as well!
  4. Use a mental math chart – There are plenty of resources available on the internet that allow children to pick up skills that are outside their school curriculum. There are websites from where you can download worksheets to teach and learn. If you attach a reward to this method, it makes it easier for a child to engage with the process also.
  5. Abacus – Sending your child to abacus lessons can be critical in helping them understand key mathematical concepts later on. Abacus classes help students learn systems that can simplify mathematical computations and it is essential that they are allowed to explore these diverse opportunities as well.

There are a lot of creative ways in which you can teach children concepts like functional numeracy. It is only a matter of engaging them in ways they want to learn. If you are a parent or teacher who enjoys creative ways of teaching and learning, then do write to us with suggestions! For the others, we are here to help you with tips and tricks that can make learning look easy!

AI is the future of education

Posted on by pankaj.harvard
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The shift to tech-enabled learning was accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic and it may not have been the most desirable driving force but what the pandemic did was push tech integration into the field of education. Companies across the world are happy about this since they can now show the world what technology can do if used in its most essential forms. Before we get into how AI technology plays a role in education, we will understand what AI means!

AI System definition, history, and the likes:

There are certain areas where manual effort can drive very little change especially if it is required to be expended on a larger scale. Some human tasks can be automated in such a way that it drives maximum impact and at a much larger scale. For all those tasks, we make use of Artificial Intelligence. While AI systems may perform tasks that we generally associate with humans, it is humans who build the framework that allows for AI principles to function!

AI is a determining tool that uses data to make recommendations, and decisions and also arrive at evidence-based research findings all in seconds. AI can save time and a lot of valuable human resources that can be used in other domains of functioning. AI can also help people make decisions based on risks and rewards. So these are just a few of the vast capabilities that AI can power. 

With the right frameworks, AI can do things efficiently, very effectively, and on a massive scale.

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AI in Education:

Keeping all the aforementioned points in mind there are a few things that we can be sure that AI does- 

  1. It helps teachers understand not just the needs of their students but also more personal things about their students. For instance, teachers can learn through AI where a student’s learning interests are.
  2. AI gives evidence-based reports to teachers rather quickly so teachers can foster collaboration with their students.
  3. AI is what is revamping and revolutionizing assessments right now. What AI does is use assessments as a diagnostic tool that reflects on a child’s learning needs instead of using it as an indicator of their capabilities.
  4. AI as a feedback tool is more reliable, free from bias and cancels out any human error in the estimation process. When feedback is communicated to a student purely based on their performance, students tend to rely on that more than any other form.
  5. AI helps eliminate boundaries. AI does not see geographical boundaries. It can be used anytime anywhere, truly inspiring the idea that AI is a global experience.

There is a lot about AI that is still under research and development but what we have in the markets and in access these days makes use of some very optimal tools to give students an experience they will enjoy. Artificial intelligence is driven by innovation and if coached well, students grow to enjoy the method behind it also. What AI also does is inspire and it is important now more than ever that students appreciate their opportunities to learn and act on them with performance, drive, and passion!