Rajashree+Basu

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**About me:** Hello everyone. I am an IBDP physics facilitator and IB DP Coordinator, currently working at Wuxi United Inte rnational School, China More details available at My resume "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." Marie Robinson This is what I felt after joining IB, even after having a decade of teaching experience to back me. I could not go back and start afresh, but to give a different ending was always in my hand. After attending several workshops and conferences,teaching the IB curriculum over a span of five years across two different countries, India and China, my views about the 21st century learner and educator went through a radical paradigm shift and still gets challenged at the existing threshold.Currently //**tolerance , acceptance and adaptibility **// seem to be the key words in my class around which my teaching and learning revolves.  The most relevant question that I asked myself few years back was "What do I want my students to remember ten years from now? ". Is it the physics laws and theories that I teach them, or to equip them with necessary skills to use technology to their aid and work on a global platform with people from different cultures. The IB mission statement seemed to be so apt to aspire them to make them digital global citizens. Few years back,in my classes two radical changes have been implemented: first being the shift of authority and focus from the teacher to the student and secondly my role being to set the proper guiding questions to develop an inquiry based learning.The journey is reflected on my personal blog:  www.rajashreebasu.blogspot.com
 * My education philosophy : **

**How do I keep myself and my students connected?**

I also make effort to remain connected to educators all across the globe and keep my students also connected. I use lot of Web 2.0 tools such as Scoop, Diigo, Pinterest, blogs and wikis. I also use a lot of social networking sites such as twitter and facebook to produce a collaborative platform for people to contribute and learn from each other. My aim is to make today's teachers and students more aware of being a digiteacher and a digiteen. Understanding digital citizenship is highly needed.

Global projects participated with students: > **Theme for 2015 pilot: ‘My Community’** > ** //Participants explore the concept ‘think global and act local’ and come up with initiatives that make positive contribution to their community.// ** > **//Community includes: our families, neighbourhood, school and the natural environment.//**
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,Times,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 29px;">2015- [|China connects]
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** //How am I connected to my community?// **
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** //What is my relationship with my environment?// **
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** //How does my daily life and consumption patterns affect my environment and how does this affect me?// **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,Times,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 29px;">2014- ERACISM. The topic for the same was <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">"Global management of natural resources will cause conflict between cultures"

=**//<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology in the classroom //**=

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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">My Edmodo page : @http://www.edmodo.com/rajashreebasu <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">My LinkedIn profile : Rajashree LinkedIn <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">My blog at : <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">@http://rajashreebasu.blogspot.com media type="custom" key="12928016" align="right" <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">My Pinterest boards at : <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">@http://pinterest.com/rajashreebasu/ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">My Scoop it account at : @http://www.scoop.it/u/rajashree-basu <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">My school events blog : @http://choithraminternationalevents.blogspot.com <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">Physics diigo group Diigo Physics Resources group <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">Diigo group : @http://groups.diigo.com/user/rajashreebasu <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">MYP Personal project Wiki : Personal Project wiki media type="custom" key="12927998" align="right" <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">To know more about how I use Web 2.0 tools for my Personal Learning Network and in class please visit <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 19px;">My TEP MODEL Wikispace: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 16px;">TEP Model of Education <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">A complete list of all my web groups can be found at <span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 16px;">Netvibes Dashboard

<span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 140%;">A video that I made in one of the Flat Classroom Conference at ASBUnplugged, Mumbai.

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