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Delish yet healthy recipes for your child’s active growth

6/1/2018

Kids are the most choosy when it comes to food and making them eat something healthy is the most challenging task for all the mothers out there. Children usually develop a natural preference for food choices they love and enjoy the most. So, here the challenge is to make them eat healthy yet delicious meals. No matter how much efforts you put in to create something that is healthy and delicious, kids will always find some or other reason to avoid eating it. But don't worry I have a solution for you. Here is a list of recipes that are specially made for children having a lot of tantrums while eating healthy foods.
1. Multigrain Pizza
Use healthy multigrain bread for pizza base instead of regular pizza base bread. Replace ketchup with fresh pesto sauce and add some healthy toppings such as mushrooms, olives, capsicum, tomato, and green veggies.
2. Lentil-Mushroom Burgers
Now the time of unhealthy and oily burgers is over. Here I present you a much healthy burger. Eliminate potatoes from the patties and add mushrooms and some lentils in them. Use buns made with whole wheat.
3. Ragi Cookies
Ragi is rich in calcium which is one of the essential nutrients for your child's growth. Ragi turns brown after roasting and can be easily disguised as chocolate cookies. Try oatmeal and raisin cookies for more options.
4. Eggless Atta Cake
For a healthy tea time cake, use yogurt, cinnamon, nuts, whole wheat flour and jaggery. All these ingredients are healthy and become tasty when turned into a cake.
5. Melon and Kiwi Fruit Smoothie
Add Kiwi, melon, grapes, papaya, honey, milk and oats together in a blender and blend it well. And serve this fulfilling, tasty, and refreshing cold beverage to your children. Believe me; they will love this smoothie during the ongoing hot summer season.
6. Whole Wheat Pasta in Mushroom Sauce
Make this pasta at home with a creamy mushroom sauce, whole wheat penne and some healthy veggies. You can also blend the vegetables with the sauce, to make it difficult for your child to guess what they are eating.
7. Chicken Ball and Spinach Soup
Adding Spring onion greens, garlic, crumbled chicken cubes, mushrooms, spinach leaves and bean sprouts together in this dish makes it supremely delicious yet healthy.

8. Oats Idli
Roasted oats, mustard seeds, chana dal, urad dal, and a little bit of turmeric powder make these idlis an ideal choice for a healthy lunch box meal.

Age, a barrier to learn new things? Elearning is making things better.

3/20/2018

While we hear or read about people going to receive education at the age of 80 or 90, we see the truth behind the fact that there is no right time to learn. Recently, there was a news about an 85 year old woman in Africa who started with her school because she wanted to learn to read and write English. Truly inspiring!

Gamification: An Interesting Approach to Education

3/20/2018

Gamification in education may be termed as motivation design, game principles for education and others. The concept of gamification in education is to engage the children in games that enhance their learning experience and knowledge. Children can spend countless hours playing games. The educators and researchers have assessed the power of games for imbibing motivation among children in the classroom.

A guide to parents for changing trends in education

11/17/2017

Change is the rule of life and so is in the education field too. Chalk and black boards are replaced by slides and projectors, and school diaries and homework notebooks are replaced by Enterprise resource planning software.

Assistive Technology For Special Needs Students

10/18/2017

Successfully educating a special needs child requires special care and resources. However, with the development of technology, it has become easier to teach kids with special needs and thus increase their ability to be an independent member of the school and community as well.

5 Modern trends in Education

9/18/2017

Learning is beyond the limit, in fact where it’s limited, it stops. Either the forms or the trends both should go on…..and that too in a more indulging and involving way in every adding step.

Why Is Blended Learning the Apt Concept for Modern Students?

9/18/2017

As in case of all walks of life, higher education is also undergoing changes and reinvent itself to meet up with the changes caused by digitization. The use of applications such as Go Class, iPad and Broadcast in classrooms has become quite common these days. Therefore, many educational institutions have adapted with blended learning in order to meet up with changes in the field of education.

Blended Learning- An Introduction

1/12/2017

“Deep and meaningful learning experiences are best supported by the active learners”
Technology has been fascinating and challenging the human brain over the generations in diverse fields. Whether it be social or cultural development, nothing has been left untouched by it. No doubt technology has made human life easier on earth; we can see its impacts in every arena of society; agriculture, education, environment and so on. However, the intention of this blog is to magnify another derivative of technology in education: blended learning.

Creating a Professional Learning Community

11/1/2016

Education can be rightly termed as the backbone of any society, government or organization. Without the right kind of education, success becomes almost impossible to achieve. Hand in hand with education goes teaching methodology or the ways in which education is imparted across the length and breadth of a nation. As times progress, it is natural for teaching methods to change or adapt to new technology for better benefits. So why is it so important to upgrade to new methods of teaching?

Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent’s Guide

11/1/2016

A child learns as much at home as at school. To say that teachers in the school are responsible for all the learning that your child can be subjected to, would be, to say the least, completely wrong. As far as support systems go, your child depends as much on you as their teachers for learning. Sometimes, even more.
As you may have experienced yourself, learning is a lifelong process. And the onus to help your child become a lifelong leaner lies on you more than anyone else. How can you, therefore, accomplish this, mind you, mammoth task of raising lifelong learners?