#6 DESIGN - Stories

 PRANAV DESIGNING HIS DOING of PAINTING

Once we designed - he was on his own, exploring the doing in his own way.

Design -Discuss-Do is an ITERATIVE process

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyfpery5R8

The session was about Introduction to the process of Design, Discuss, Do

Design - Any Project we take, we start with the exploration of the idea called Design which includes What we want to do? Why do we want to do it? What resources do we need? Who all are teams? what role each one play in a team? What all work is involved? Whose permission do we need to start the work? Where will we do? Who will maintain the project?


Discuss - is all about to get more ideas, to find alternates, to share our doubts or what are we stuck with.

Do - Action. Get onto your job of doing.

Children were receptive to design their project, they discussed and discussed their plan, roles. They all started with what to do until how to do it. They were asking doubts, sharing problems. made their mind maps, questioned each other, made fun of each other ideas, worked together, some ideas accepted and approved in the group, some discarded.

Blog - https://aarohilife.org/home/blog/introduction-process-design-discuss-do

A group of Children volunteered to set up a library in a class.

This decision left them with pondering questions - about the location for the library? where do we get books for the library? what kind of books? Can we get books from the library? what if the library does not have books? can we get our old storybooks from home? can we ask our teachers and collect books? How do we maintain books? how to share responsibility ? what if children took books home / tear the books / lose the books? Whom to ask permission? will the teacher permit?

Blog - https://aarohilife.org/home/blog/learn-doing-setting-library-classroom

My journey of drumming - As a group, we started on the drum pad practicing whole note, half note, quarter note, and eighth note for two days with a metronome, which was slow and increasing the speed. At that time I was wishing to play on the drums and try the sixteenth note. Finally, we got on to the drums it was hard than I expected the coordination was important, starting with just the snare drum and the bass drum to get the coordination going it was a bit tricky to coordinate the leg and the hand, slowly adding the high hat to get used to it. At that time my wish was to play fills. Understanding the notation was not that hard it was simple.

Read my Year Journey - https://aarohilife.org/home/blog/my-year-journey

Stories on how children learn and each story is different. But each story reminds us that each child is unique and learn in their unique way.


How a child Learn?
How a child Progress?
How a child Struggle?
How a child Explore?
How a child Discover

How a child Supported?
How a child Understand Self?
How a child Experiment?

Read The Stories - https://aarohilife.org/home/blog/learning-stories

The freedom of “I decide” does not come without any responsibility. And it is not easy to be free - this requires choices to be evaluated, decisions to be made, consequences to be lived - while being questioned from every corner.


Add to freedom is the responsibility that one has to have not only of oneself and one’s actions but of the various tasks that you have chosen to do, of resolving all possible conflicts, of taking and giving feedback, of raising one’s voice, and be heard and finally responsible of making oneself happy.

It is our belief that only when we are out of our comfort zone, only when we stretch ourselves, only when we grope in the realm of unknown and unfathomable - we learn.

Read Blog - https://aarohilife.org/home/blog/expeiencing-open-learning-summer-week-3-2018

We have no dish to offer. We do not serve our children any learning on a platter. We aren't cooking to satisfy the children.

We're like a kitchen: Raw material and tools (resources) of all kinds are available. Children are challenged to cook for themselves, to create their own learning, to explore, experiment for their own reasons, to satisfy their own hunger.


Read Blog - https://aarohilife.org/home/blog/kitchen-or-restaurant

A thought - Do you see SHAPES in MATHEMATICAL TABLES?

We watched a video showing a visual board of a mathematical table.

Making of this board itself took us time - first, we had to think what material, we worked on few materials like cardboard, wood etc but it did not suit our needs.

Then a spark came and we used old lid of paint bucket, Now it was all about nailing and using geometry tools to make marks. Once we succeed doing this in two days, we played with color yarn to explore shapes. We were mesmerized to see beauty in mathematical tables!

Blog Link  - https://aarohilife.org/home/blog/dry-toilet-action

It began with a desire to PAINT
Then paint on the WALL
They searched and selected a suitable wall

They made a design
Given other art styles - Warli, Madhubani, Zentangle, Mandala, etc
Both made their own design

Made a couple of designs
And decided to paint on two different surfaces
Again searched for another surface
So now we have two wall painting

They drew, they practiced, they referred to books, they relied on their imagination, they were open to trying new fonts and lines...and they began their journey. Both made their first Solo wall painting