Vol. 15 February, 2021 ‘Technovation 2021’, is a student-led event that the students look forward to every year. As all the events were hosted virtually this academic year, Technovation was another event added to the list. The event was organized by students of Grade 7 to 9 and was conducted on 17 th and 18 th February, 2021. The aim of this event was to motivate the students to wear their leadership caps and give them a chance to participate in an event organized by their peers. The students came up with fun events like bingo, logo making, treasure hunt, etc. The event organizers were segmented into the following committees: event committee, design committee and advertising committee. All the committee members collaborated and worked together to make this event successful. All the committee members were guided by their IT teachers. Students from grade 4-9 participated in large numbers. There were many events that were organized by the students and teachers. Let's hear it from the event organizers about their event. To view the work of winners, visit the following website: https://sites.google.com/dypisworli.in/technovation/home Learners of Grade 4 and 5 participated in two offline events as part of the IT Fest held on the 17th and 18th Feb 2021. THE DYPIS NEWS BURST Technovation 2021
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Vol. 15 February, 2021
‘Technovation 2021’, is a student-led event that the students look forward to every year. As all the events were hosted
virtually this academic year, Technovation was another event added to the list. The event was organized by students of
Grade 7 to 9 and was conducted on 17th and 18th February, 2021. The aim of this event was to motivate the students to
wear their leadership caps and give them a chance to participate in an event organized by their peers. The students came
up with fun events like bingo, logo making, treasure hunt, etc.
The event organizers were segmented into the following committees: event committee, design committee and
advertising committee. All the committee members collaborated and worked together to make this event successful. All
the committee members were guided by their IT teachers. Students from grade 4-9 participated in large numbers.
There were many events that were organized by the students and teachers.
Let's hear it from the event organizers about their event. To view the work of winners, visit the following website:
I see lot of chemistry bottles and a man who is trying something out with the help of chemistry or physics
I see an old man experimenting. He is testing some chemicals which is on a table. He looks like he is important. I see a lot of machines which are there museums now. He is wearing clothes which look different than ours.
I see few people riding horses and helping horses and cleaning the pathway for the horses by removing haystacks and hay.
I see some people who are migrating by horses. They look like farmers. They are wearing clothes like farmers when they work. They are holding something that seems to pull hay towards them. They are in a grassland. Two horses are pulling a small carriage.
Presentation on Globalization & Sustainability
The students of grade 6 challenged themselves to present their inquiry-based group presentation on globalization and
sustainability in Hindi Language. It was a wonderful activity to boost students’ confidence as well as to develop their
communication skills This encouraged them to use their acquired knowledge of the language effectively.
Secondary Section
Jeshna’s Lockdown Journey
Jeshna Mehra, studying in Grade 7 has recently started writing her own blog.
She enjoys music, photography and watching movies/tv shows and spending time with her family. Everyone has
something special in them and what she can tell you about herself is that she has a good amount of will-power and a
great degree of determination. So, here is her journey which she would love to share with you :)
Once you make up your mind for something, you can definitely achieve it. Nothing can stop you and then there is no
looking back!
Online Decision-Making Game
The History students of Grade 9 participated in an online simulation decision making game.
The students stepped into the shoes of Adolf Hitler as they tried to use their factual knowledge and conceptual
understanding of the topic to make key decisions which formulated Adolf Hitler's foreign policy which played a key
role in starting World War 2. The students applied the skill of causality to gain a comprehensive understanding of the
motives of the European politicians in the 1930s which guided their decision making with regards to their expansionary
policies.
Anticipation Guide as a Tool to help Virtual Teaching
Purpose: For the teacher to judge prior knowledge of the students on the topic and students to understand where
they stand in their knowledge and write reflections.
What is an Anticipation Guide: The anticipation guide is a very useful teaching strategy for classes during lockdown
periods where virtual teaching is the norm? During this period student teacher interactions necessarily become limited
because unlike a physical environment, students do not react as enthusiastically to a screen as they would to a teacher
actually standing in front of them. I made use of the Anticipation guide for my Grade 11 students of DYPIS and I found
it to be a big help in judging the prior knowledge of students.
Most students at this level do have some prior knowledge of the topics they will be taught keeping in mind they have
gone through 10 years of prior schooling when the topics would be touched upon briefly at least if not in detail.
Use of Anticipation Guide in the classroom: The Anticipation guide was used in my class to judge the prior knowledge
of students on Ecology. Prior to starting the unit students were given a set of statements on Ecology to which they had
to respond by indicating whether they agreed to the statement or not. The statements were designed to challenge or
support their preconceived ideas regarding a particular concept of Ecology. At the end of the exercise students were
given a subtopic of the unit to read and then decide for themselves whether they were right of wrong.
How did the exercise with the Anticipation Guide help:
Help to the teacher: Going through the student responses helps the teacher to understand the prior knowledge of his/her
students and build up teaching strategies from that level.
Help to the Students: Students were also expected to note down their reflections regarding their responses giving
actual examples from the text and give a small presentation on what they learned from their experience with the
Anticipation Guide. Class discussions followed. This helped students to gauge for themselves their basic understanding
level and also identify for themselves their weak areas.
Rules to be kept in mind while using Anticipation Guides: The Anticipation guide should be given as a surprise to
the students. They should have no prior knowledge of the identity of the topic they were going to be taught following
their exercise with the guide. This would ensure that they do not prepare beforehand. Doing this gives a true picture of
their prior knowledge about the topic.
Advantage of the Anticipation guide:
Engages all students
Encourages them to critically analyse what they know or do not know about a topic.
Since the Anticipation Guide responses are fresh in their mind’s students can make clear judgements about whether they
need to rethink on certain points.
The responses help the teacher in building up the teaching appropriately and also saves on time. The teacher does not
waste time talking in detail on points students were already familiar with.
From Management, Staff, Students and Newsletter Team