Category: Student
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Alif Laila Series of Ferozesons and my love for books
مجھے سب ہے یاد زرا زرا– تمہیں یاد ہو کہ نہ یاد ہو کس کو یاد ہے ان 6 کتب کی قدر مشترک؟ ملکہ شہرزاد حجام اور قزاق چین کی شہزادی گنجا لنگور سندباد کے سات سفر معروف موچی 1970 کی دہائی میں یہ کتب میری اسلام آباد میں “ملت لائبریری” کا حصہ تھیں جن…
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Tarzan and My Language Acquisition
ٹارزن کے جنگ اخبار میں روز شائع ہونے والے تصویری سلسلہ سے میں نے تقریباً 5-6 سال کی عمر میں اخبار پڑھنا شروع کیا– یہ 1967-68 کا زمانہ تھا– روز صبح امی، ابا یا بڑی بہنوں سے اصرار ہوتا تھا کہ وہ پڑھ کر سنائیں، اور شروع میں دو چار دفعہ ہر ایک نے سنایا–…
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Playing with Fire: Confidence Building
Lighting up the fire for making tea during tracking and picnicking in the wilderness. Food cooking in scouting. We used to burn the bushes around our house in the wilderness when they have dried up in the autumn. They would grow during the summer monsoon to several feet high. Then they would dry up in…
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How much time does it take to write an Exam in the LMS Based Online Exam Taken in Asynchronous Mode
How much time does it take to write a 3-hour exam in an LMS Based Online Taken in Asynchronous Mode? My expectation from faculty members is that their question needs to be a 3-hour exam, the “estimated” writing time for the answers should be 3 hours. The exam paper is typically loaded on LMS as…
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Why There are so Many Assignments on the LMS
A reply sent to the student who was complaining about excessive assignments. An assignment in each session is typically given by a faculty member for the benefit of students. Assignments provide opportunity to students to get their attendance for a class session because students can not be “forced” to “attend” the “synchronous” class session on…
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Which Option You should Choose: Pass-Fail or Letter Grade
This post describes when to use a pass-fail option and when not to use the pass-fail option. It gives you scenarios in which to select what. If you do not know the maths of how a CGPA is calculated, and you have never put your courses on an excel and computed the CGPA by inputing…
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Examples of How Children Fail
In “How Children Fail”, the acclaimed author John Holt describes how children stop using their mind, and fail. It is quite evident from the example pic below that the child was using his mind. Unfortunately, the teacher was grading “mindlessly” from the key that he had. This example is not an isolated case. There are…
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What Should New Students of a University Must Consider: Essentials of a University Education
Why Education and Why Higher Education What is the Purpose of Education What does it mean to be well educated and what is our mission What is Higher Education What is Impact can you create What Impact on Society What Impact on Industry and Economy What should be your personal Impact Here is the detailed…
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5 Challenges for Designing your Professional Lives
Faculty, Parents and my dear students: As I look at your beaming faces full of hope and aspirations and great expectations of your future after four years of university life, I first invite you to try to soak in this environment of this marvelous infrastructure at IoBM. You are sitting in the building which is…
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How to be a Change Leader and a Job Creator
[IoBM Orientation for New Students Sep 1, 2018] As I look at your beaming faces, your youthful energy, and your ambitions for shaping the future of our nation and our dear country, I am filled with hope. I am sure that our future is destined to be better than our today. It is also welcoming…
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A Tribute to Cricket for Spearheading my English Language Acquisition – Sports and Language Learning
I often see parents worrying about language skills of their children. A closer look at the hobbies of such children will indicate that they are not passionate about any hobbies especially sports. Here I would detail the role of cricket in spearheading my English language acquisition. As my interest grew, with cricket and started following…
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A Tale of Two Live Performances of Pastoral- 6th Symphony of Beethoven and My Musical Journey
Here I recall the two experiences of my life while attending two live performance of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, “Pastoral” and how they stimulated my love for Beethoven and classical music. The two experiences are spread apart by nearly thirty years. First was at UT Austin’s Bates Recital Hall in 1989 conducted by Louis Lane and…
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Sir Najmul Hasan of IBA and How to Determine the Extent of Your Success in Life
Yesterday, during my PhD class with students I was trying to explain the complexity of real world and how models (and theories) help us in making sense of this complexity by focusing on a few concepts and their relationships. The discussion moved towards perception and reality and from there to this phenomenal lesson by Najmul…
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How Readers are Created. Ecosystem that Produces Readers
How can we create readers and an ecosystem where readers can thrive. How do we make reading a contagious disease when our educational institutions from schools to universities have become mass producers of functional illiterates [1]. Universities complain that they are getting intake that has studied English for 12 years but have no reading comprehension and…
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How Schools Teach Students to Hate Reading: Mass Creation of Non-Readers
Schools are producing graduates who know how to read but are not readers. They have become non-readers (functional illiterates) because the schools have taught them to hate reading! Functional Illiteracy Schools typically use a curriculum and methodology that consists of senseless and meaningless worksheets and exercises which the students are forced to do repeatedly, continuously…
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How to become a Life-Long Learner: Mission of Developing Life-Long Learners
This is the first orientation of new students of IoBM over the last 23 years, where our founder president, Mr Shahjehan Karim is not present. He left us for the hereafter last month. Inna lillahe wa inna ilaihi rajioon. He worked tirelessly all his life to make a world a better place. This institution of…
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5 Major Misconceptions of Muslim Parents regarding Parenting Challenges of the 21st Century
[Themes of this post were presented at Forward Institute for Educational Bridgework Seminar on Jan 27, 2016. ] Note: This post is specifically written for Muslim parents and presupposes reader’s belief in Quran and Sunnah. Over the last few years I have come across Muslim parents who are making extra effort in following Sunnah. However,…
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Top 10 Reasons Why Students Fail in Semester System- Survival Guide
About 5%-10% of students entering the university are unable to survive the semester system. The following list of top 10 reasons is based on my observations as a student from 1980-1994 at NED, IBA Karachi and at Univ of Texas at Austin. These are also based on my interactions with dropouts as faculty member from…
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Youth Leadership and Dave Ulrich-Orientation for University Students
[Presented at IoBM Orientation Session for Fall 2016 intake on Sep 3] Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a workshop on leadership at Karachi Marriott by Dave Ulrich, who is considered as the father of modern Human Resource Management. Ulrich is a professor at the University of Michigan and a consultant to top companies…
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Harmful Effects of Comparing Siblings and Children
Biggest torture (zulm) on a child that can be done by a parent is “comparing the child with a sibling or some other child”. For example here is the complaint of a mother of two children: “Comparison starts as early as one month; He was active, but this child is so weak… He walked so…
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6 Trends that will Determine your Career Success in the 21st Century
There are six major trends that are going to determine the careers of graduates in the 21st century: Shortening of the life cycle of organizations and businesses. From life-long full-time employment to short term, contractual, project-based engagements From teaching to learning From knowledge acquisition to enterprising creativity and innovation From management to leadership. From managed…
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Who Fails when a Student Fails
Should not this be true also for schools? Are we willing to take responsibility of the failure of our students? We conveniently try to shift the blame to the student, or to his genetic intelligence, or to his learning disability, or to his psychological deficiency, or to his parents, or to his family, or to his…
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Why Education and Why Higher Education: Leadership in Life and Society
Why Education and Why Higher Education: Leadership in Life and Society 1. What is the Purpose of Education We grew up in schools where the day started with an assembly where everyone used to pray that the mission of our lives should be to become a source of light. We prayed for the capacity to…
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Of Hanafi School of Marketing, Orientation of New Students and Dr Matin A Khan of IBA
As my experience of dealing with students continues to accumulate, and as I closely observe how priorities of students change from what they are during their university studies to what they are in their later careers, I appreciate more and more the criticality and the importance of the two advices given by Dr Matin A…
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Education as Tazkia: Is a child like a clean slate?
Education as Tazkia: Is a child like a clean slate? In the academic circles, one often hears the view of a child as “clean slate”, meaning there is nothing written on the slate, and unless we make sure that we write something “good”, as quickly as possible, others may spoil it by writing on it…
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How Parental Judgments can Shatter a Child: Self Fulfilled Prophecies
How Parental Judgments can Shatter a Child: Self Fulfilled Prophecies It is often said when you are dealing with children: “Treat them as you want them to be, not how they are!” Basically the driving force while the child is growing and learning is the “Future Potential” of the child and not his “Current State”.…
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School Discipline vs Prison Discipline
[Delivered as L2L Talk on 2011-05-08] What is the prison experience? The gate is heavily guarded. There is an eerie silence prevailing. There is a formal process of meeting the inmates or the officials. You can’t go any place you want. There are strict rules for movement. There is a meeting area where you need to go,…
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Are you really concerned about your child’s education
Worried about School Assessments (WASL) If you are really concerned about your child’s progress in education, what you should be doing before you start running towards the school complaining and then hiring expensive tutors. There are parents who get worked up quite frequently about their child’s performance in school. Every few weeks their blood pressure…