A Tech Boy

You may have heard about the quotes; which people often use i.e. “Age Is Just A Number”. Well! Do you actually believe that age is just an episode??

Around 80% of people follow their dream just after high school. In fact, some still gets confused about their life goals. But have you ever thought about following your dream at an early age? Balancing your academic career and dream together might be tough or heavy! Yet, grueling your dreams come true will not be impassable.

Let us make you believe with one amazing story, who is just 16 years and has amazed nation through his work. That’s because he has brought a positive impact on society by helping people via technology.

Mr. Samir Phuyal is an emerging entrepreneur from Morang. He is passionate about technology. He develops websites and apps that solves the problem in society. He has initiated an online advertising platform called “NayaKinmel.com” an online advertising platform with the vision of digitalizing newspaper ads which aims to facilitate trading between buyers and sellers.

Samir has taught more than 13k people worldwide about Django through Udemy app to build a powerful web application. He has also developed Magic of Words Summaries and QnA app to help +2 students on their course. Additionally, He is also running Hamro Tech YouTube Channel which teaches Web Development and Programming on Nepali Language.

On Sep 1^st, 2019 he was awarded as a Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero, 2019. Out of 598 application from the nation, Samir won the title and has marked as one of the inspirational personality or teenager in Nepal. The work he has been doing sets an example to break the stereotype of society. 

We believe teenagers have the power to change the nation through their creative ideas and amazing works. Like Samir, there are a number of teenagers who can reform society with their ability. It’s always never too early to follow the dreams.

Doing something impactful is chain learning. The world can believe you only after believing yourself. As we can see change begins with all efforts from everyone. A positive change by teenagers will definitely be the beneficiary for the people and to the nation.

Glocal Teen Hero (GTH) is an initiation of Glocal Khabar (a concern of Glocal Pvt. Ltd.) to bring out the fantastic teenagers together. It is an award night dedicated to all the passionate teenagers to recognizes their initiation, creativity, achievements, and enthusiasm that they have been doing to create a positive impact on the society besides academics. It is a fully-funded program exclusively for teenagers which helps to develop personally and professionally through a pool of opportunities and networking.

https://nepal.glocalteenhero.com/

Written By: Ranju Magar
Glocal Pvt. Ltd

An Innovative mind

We sat down with Kishor maharjan who is a maker and have been making and innovating things for a long time. Breaking all the social norms , kishor keeps working on his vision and ideas and is planning to take his idea / concept to much bigger platform out there. He is currently working on one of his model and soon wants to present it as a ' proof of concept'. our best wishes to Kishor and his future endeavors.

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Critical Thinking: Need and Approaches

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Critical thinking, as defined by Robert Ennis, an American Philosopher, is a reflective and reasonable thinking process, which is often shaped by knowledge, attitude, and skills possessed by an individual (Kurfiss, 1988). In the present world, the technological advancements have been changing the lives of people and reducing reliability in terms of facts memorization, due to which the ability to reflect and analyze a particular scenario to extract solutions to the problems is a need that education should impart to the students of the 21st century. 

Why Think Critically?

With large availability of open data from various sources, the need to segregate information based on its truthfulness and relevance is an important one in the present scenario (Halpern, 1999; as cited in Almeida and Franco, 2011). Further, critical thinking as a cognitive ability tends to capacitate in dispersing ideas and conducting meaningful dialogue with others in a particular topic (Brady, 2008; as cited in Almeida and Franco, 2011). As discussed by A'sari (2014), critical thinking allows an individual to be more honest with themselves with proper analysis of information provided to them, challenges them to solve problems, conduct evidence-based judgments, avoid extremist views and capacitates in controlling feelings over the feelings controlling them. 

How to Think Critically?

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Critical thinking is all about thinking in a smart manner, through validation and cross-checking the facts that are presented to them. As A'sari (2014) suggests, the process of critical thinking involves seven steps which include objective understanding of others claims, understanding of the assumptions, evaluating the validity between assumptions and claims, examining appropriateness of assumptions and claims, deciding validity among claims and assumption, collective evidence for alternative generation and elegant presentation of the alternatives to the other parties. In simple terms, critical thinking involves gathering information, processing and analyzing it and presenting the findings as well as conclusions for providing independent insights and opinions for better problem-solving. 

At Canopy Nepal, EIC (abbreviation of formerly known as English Improvement Classes) is primarily focused on improving the ability of school going students in reading, writing and speaking with the integration of ability to evaluate information. With over 900 graduates, comprising up of 15-20 grade 6 to 9 students in each series,  both from public as well as private schools, findings related to their improved ability to analyze the information they are provided allowing them to provide their own insights on it is the key trait seen in all the students tutored in these classes. 

The EIC participants sit through the month-long after school sessions and build on their creativity and critical thinking skills. The sessions conducted with the main motto to let them enjoy while learning through fun-filled games and activities every day. With such initiatives, we aim to break the rote-learning culture in the mainstream education system and develop intelligent, critical thinkers of the society. 

References

da Silva Almeida, L., & Rodrigues Franco, A. H. (2011). Critical thinking: Its relevance for education in a shifting society. 

As’ari, A. R. (2014, April). Ideas for developing critical thinking at primary school level. In International Seminar on Addressing Higher Order Thinking: University of Muhammadiyah Makasar.

Kurfiss, J. G. (1988). Critical Thinking: Theory, Research, Practice, and Possibilities. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 2, 1988. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, The George Washington University, One Dupont Circle, Suite 630, Dept. RC, Washington, DC 20036-1183.

Written by: Pransu Khakurel (Canopy Nepal)

Edited by: Urishna Shakya (Canopy Nepal)

Canopy Nepal is a team of visionary youths working in the field of education, skill and leadership development, diversity and inclusion. We seek to improve quality and efficiency on the learners and reshaping the way they learn.