by Raunak Chaudhari (Lab Master, DoLAB; Creative Heart – Empowerment Academy; King’s College Alumni) This blog is the first of a series of blogs that explores (and re-thinks) education – particularly around the idea of Project Based Learning (PBL). This series, in a way, is also my own manifesto for what PBL programs should look…
By Raunak Chaudhari (Lab Master, DoLAB) Umes Dai (Right Brain, Empowerment Academy) asks a participant during Teach Lab “Why do you look so low?”, to which the participant said, “ASK, don’t ASSUME”. And that is what we have been reminding the participants throughout the workshop. At this point, we as organizers of the workshop have…
By Sanjivani Shrestha (Student – BBA) When I first heard the term ‘Design Thinking’ the first thing that triggered my mind was problem solving. But at the end of the day, I realized it was a lot more than that. Day 1 of the workshop had participants from different age groups and backgrounds, some were…
by Umes Shrestha (Right Brain – Empowerment Academy) & Udgum Khadka (Backbone – Empowerment Academy) The first edition of TeachLAB was a pilot version back in February of 2019. We had plenty of reflections and learning moments then and had observed minor to major steps, process details and activities to re-test and change. Integrating those…
By Prateek Raj Neupane (Lab Master – DoLAB) I have a 3-year-old daughter and I like to observe what she does intently. In my process of observation, I assume that what a child does is a natural behavior for human beings and what s/he needs to be taught is possibly acquired. For example, my daughter…
By Shanta Milan Dewan (MBA Student, Participant – Concept Development for Impact 2018, Coach – Do Shop for Rotract District Nepal) This is part 1 of a two-part reflection blog written by Shanta Milan. Read part-2 here. A typical day for a student of Kings College, rushing and running towards the class to get on…
By Saurav Karki, MBA Student Participant, BUCSBIN Concept Development for Impact 2019 Design thinking is an iterative process in which we seek to understand the people’s empathy, difficulties, challenges, and redefine problems in an effort to identify alternative solutions and strategies that is beyond our initial level of understanding. Design thinking attempts to give a…
Working professionals and the students of MBA & BBA at King’s worked in teams in the last camp organized at Do lab. Industry Lab had the teams working on very broad themes. In three days, they empathized with end users regarding both problems, made and presented a prototype of their solution, they passed through hills…
By Raunak Chaudhari (MBA Alumni; Coach – DoLAB) Do you learn something by reading something or listening to someone talk or even watching someone work? Or do you learn when you take that and put that in the context of what you do? Prateek dai (Lab Master, Do Lab) and I had a quick conversation…
by Anupam Bajracharya “Nirajan! Where is your English homework?” “I haven’t done sir!” “Why?” “I don’t have my English book.” Likewise, Suman from grade 1 was not doing classwork because he didn’t even have pencils to do his classwork. Such lack of basic facilities to learn is the right of a student, aren’t they? We…