by Ritika Giri (Student – BBA) I ask myself a question: Is the reality we live in real? Or is it just an illusion? I wake up in the morning, make myself a cup of lemon tea and have some breakfast. Then I drink my tea and eat my breakfast with my cellphone in my hand.…
With design thinking, people often use the idea of “iteration”. It is the idea that you don’t do something once and be done with it. Instead, you take the result, learn from it and go back to make it better every time. And just like iteration in designing products and services, we manage to learn…
A blog post by Sushobhan Chimoriya and Hari Khatri, BBA students It’s still not too late to talk about it! Well, it actually is. But let’s not put this on hold any longer. So…..Water. You know that thing; the one you drink, the one you cook with. Basically, the thing that you cannot live without.…
By Raunak Chaudhari (Creative Heart – Empowerment Academy) Though they may turn into background noise in day to day life, designs of things – both physical or otherwise embed themselves in our everyday actions. Influencing behaviors and (in the long term) habits, design dictates our very way of doing the things we do. It is…
By Raunak Chaudhari (Creative Heart – Empowerment Academy) We did a workshop recently where one of the goals was to make the participants aware that a solution designed in isolation is often inferior to one that is tested in the real world among people that will benefit from these solutions. About an hour into participants…
Participating in workshops is a gift I give myself. Being a teacher and a workshop facilitator, I feel I need to grow and learn all the time. I want to learn innovative techniques of classroom management and content delivery so that I can help my students learn better and enjoy the process. Therefore, I enrolled…
You have to engage those disengaged, connect those disconnected and enable each one of the students to be able to visualize implications of your lessons … I have never been a teacher despite my entire working experience is around academic institutions. I believe, ‘teaching is one of the Nobel professions’ and this is so much…
On March 3 and 4 2019, our team at Empowerment Academy conducted a workshop for 140 participants of the “Smart Urban Technology Challenge 2018” on the basic principles and process of design thinking, MVP, and idea pitching. SUTC 2018 is an initiative of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) to bring out entrepreneurial spirit within Nepalese community…
By Umes Shrestha (Right brain – EA) and Udgum Khadka (Backbone – EA) Dear teachers, The new year 2019 does not align perfectly with our academic year. But we can still make a few new year resolutions on how to improve our teaching. Because, what better time than now! In this article series, we’ll be…
Empowerment Academy conducted the pilot version of TeachLAB in King’s College on February 15 – 17, 2019. 17 teachers and future-teachers from different institutions and levels together actively immersed in the 3-day program. The participating teachers were from King’s College, Mid-Valley International College, Karkhana, British College, Triyog School and Ace Higher Secondary School. A diverse…