New Delhi, Aug 9: With the National Education Policy 2020 recognising the need for flexibility in choosing the subjects that a student wants to study, implementation of this policy will boost science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in India, edtech startup SP Robotic Works has said.
The new education policy also recognised that skills like coding and scientific temper and evidence-based thinking should be learned by all students to become good, successful, innovative, adaptable and productive human beings in today's rapidly changing world.
With the semester-based pattern, there is a lot of relaxation with respect to a child's choice to select their interest in subjects, according to Sneha Priya, CEO and co-founder, SP Robotic Works.
"This will promote the kids to explore various segments which otherwise I believe was restricted to an extent," Priya told IANS in an interview.
On July 29, the Union Cabinet gave its approval to a new National Education Policy (NEP) which aims at bringing about several changes in the education system from the school to college level.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the NEP is the foundation of a "new India" and that it will help close the gap between education and research.
It is now well recognised that in opening the door to myriad opportunities offered by STEM education, online platforms have played a pivotal role.
Coding-related courses have picked up well and the online platforms have seen a lot of kids enrol in block programming, artificial intelligence (AI) and android app development.
"As the field of STEM education gained immense popularity in India, this online learning platform has seen 80 per cent increase in the number of renewal of programmes, which implies the increase in interest and is a positive sign for the future of STEM education," she said.
The proposal to introduce coding from Class 6 and onwards is one of the best decisions of the policy, Priya added.
"With importance being given to coding in the NEP, the schools will be more open to adopting new ways to ensure their children master in what they are learning which will automatically result in better outcomes," she opined.
"Focus on these skills is crucial during the formative years for the development of the children. Hence, this new policy will prove beneficial for growing kids to gather their interest in coding at an early stage," she said.
According to Priya, it is important to deliver the coding concepts in the right manner to captivate and encourage the child to engross his/her attention towards the subject.
She also stressed that both robotics and coding courses have seen a huge upsurge this year.
In addition to what is being taught at school, the online learning platform has seen an increased number of queries from parents with regards to shaping up their child's coding skills.
"Especially with the current situation, the Covid-i9 lockdown has given more time to students to explore their interest in this field and we have seen double the demand in participation just in the previous few months from children," Priya quipped.
Even during the lockdown, SP Robotic Works said they have seen an increase of 55 per cent in the revenues.
"Additionally, we have seen around 1 lakh new enrolments during the last four months which demonstrates that Indian children are exploring their interests across segments," the CEO said.
"For the next six months, our focus is going to continue educating and engaging more students in experiential learning as we work towards building a nation that's truly 'Aatmanirbhar'," Priya noted.
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Why Do Most People Believe That Cancer Is A Disease?
Everyone hass the ability to heal themselves
There is not any cancer that has not been survivedd by
someone, it doesn't matter hhow far advanced it was. If even onee inhdividual hass succeeded in healing his
cancer, thre has too be a mechanism for this, just as there's
a mechanism for creating cancer. Every person on the planet has the capacity to do both.
If you have been identified as having cancer, may very well not have the ability to affect the diagnosis, yet
it's certainly with your capacity to alter the destructive consequences it (the diagnosis)
might have for you. The way you perceive the cancer as wsll as the steps
youu determine to take following diagnosing are some of the most powerful determinants of the
future wellness, or perhaps the insufficient it.
90-95 ercent of all cancers appear and disappear of their own accord
The indiscriminate reference to cancer as being a 'killer disease' by professionals andd lay people alike has
turned cancer in a disorder wigh tragic consequences for most today's
cancer patients and their families. Cancer is nnow synonymous wwith
extraordinary suffering, pain, and death.
This perception continues despite the fact that 90-95 percent coming from all cancers appear and disappear of their own accord.
Not a day passes with no body making an incredible number of cancer cells.
Some people, under severe temporary stress, make
more cancer cells than usual and form clusters of cancerous
cells that disappear again after they feel better.
According to medical research, secretions with the DNA's powerful anticancer drug, Interleukin II, drop under mental and physical duress and
increase again if the person becomes relaxedd and joyful.
Low secretions of Interleukin II raise the incidence of cancer in your
body. However, everyone is generrally not under severe stress all the time.
Therefore, cancer malignancy vanish without any type of
mewdical intervention aand withoiut causing anyy real harm.
Right now, millions of folks are running aroujd with cancers of their body with
oout an idea that they havee them. Likewise, millions of people heal their
cancers without even knowing it. Overall, there are manby more spontaneous remissons of cancer
than you will find diagnosed annd trsated cancers.
Cancer treatments do more harm than good
The facts are, relatively feww cancers actually become 'terminal' or are even detected.
The vast majority of cancers remain undiagnosed and they are not found
until autopsy. Typically, these folks don't die as a result of cancer.
They don't have symptoms which could prompt your physician to prescribe
any frlm the standard cancer-detecting tests. It should
raise everyone's eyebrows that 30-40 times ass many cases of thyroid, pancreatic, and cancer of
prostate are simply in autopsy than are detected by doctors.
The Britksh medical journal Lanfet published a survey in 1993 that shkwed early screening often brings about unnedessary treatment.
The reason for that? Although 33 percent oof autopsies reveal prostate type
of cancer, merely one percxent die from it. After agee 75, half freom the males might have cancer of prostate, butt only 2 percent die from that.
New official recommendations (August 2008) necessitate oncologists tto don't treat menn with cancer of prostte
beyond thhe chronilogical age of 75 years since the treatments do more harm than good and offer no advantages over no treatment at all.
It should be noted that these low mortality rates only affect anyone who
has neither been identified as having cancer nor received any answer
to cancer. Mortfality rates, however, increease
drastically if cancers are diagnosed and treated, which clearly shows
simply what does the killing. Once diagnosed, most cancers will never
be given to be able to disappear independently. Theey aare promptly targeted
having an arsenal of deadly weapons including chemotherapy
drugs, radiation, and also the surgical knife.
'Sleeping' tumors that might never really cause uch teouble foor
one's body, may certainly be aroused into
powerful defensive reactions annd grow aggressive, not
unlike relatively harmless bacteria that become danyerous superbugs when attacked by antibiotic medication. It makes virtually no sense that at any given time if you want to bolster our bodies's most
crucial healing system - the defense mechanisms - you'd subject yourself tto radical treatments that basically waken or destroy the immune
system.
The problem with cancer patients is that, terrified by
the diagnosis, they submiit their to the telotale cutting/burning/poisoning procedures that, in all likelihood, will leead thuem more
quickly to the day of final sentencing: "We have to inform you with your deepest regret that there's no more which can be done to help you."
The most pressing question is not, "How advanced or dangerous is my cancer?" but, "What am I doing or otherwise not doing that puts my body right into a situation of experiencing to address because of its life?" Why do somke people undergo
cancer as though it were tthe flu? Are they just lucky, or possibly
there a mechanism at work which induces the healing?
On the contrary, what's the hidden element that prevents one's body from healing cancer naturally, that creates cancer so dangerous, if indeeed it is dangerous in any way?
People believe cancer is really a vicious killer
The strategies to each one of these queries lie using the one who
has the cancer, andd doesn't depend on the amount of a particular cancer's 'viciousness' or advanced stage whkch it seems like to own progressed.
Do you believe that cancer is really a disease? You will moree than likely answer, "Yes,"
given the 'informed' opinion that the healthcare industry and marketing have fed for the masses forr several decades.
Yet, the harder important but rarely asked question remains, "Why you think cancer is really a disease?" You
may answer, "Because I know cancer kills people every day." I would then question you further, "How are you aware it is the cancer that kills people?" You would probably believe thatt a lot of people who've cancer die, so obviously
it have to be the cancer that kills them.
Besides, you may reason, alll of the expert doctors tell us so.
Let me ask you another question, an extremely strange
one: "How do you know for certain that you're the daughter/son of your respective father and never of one other man?" Is it because your mother mentioned so?
What makess you believe that your mother told you reality?
Probably when you believe her; along with silly too not.
After all, shee is your mother, and mothers usually do not lie
about these things. Or can they? Although yoou won't actually know with absolue certainty
that this person you think being youhr father is,
actually, your father, you nevertheless have turned whatever
youu subjectively believe into something that you 'know', into an irrefutable truth.
Although no scientific proof whatsoeveer exists to demonstrate that cancer can be a disease (versus a healing attempt), a lot of
peopl will insist it is a disease since thius is what they've been told to believe.
Yet this belief is merely hearsay based on other people's opinions.
These other pekple heard the identical 'truth' from another individual.
Eventually, the infallible doctrine that caner is really a disease might be traced
to many doctors who expressed their subjective feelings oor beliefs about what that they had observed and
published them in most review articles or medical reports.
Other doctors agreed using their opinion, and in a short time,
it beame a 'well-established fact' that cancer is a vicious illness that somehow gets hold of people
in order to kill them. However, the truth from the matter
might actually be quite different and more rational and
scientific than that.
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