{"id":13144,"date":"2017-11-27T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=13144"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:04:00","slug":"innovation-in-education-fair-pokhara-air-fire-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/innovation-in-education-fair-pokhara-air-fire-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation in Education Fair Pokhara: Air Fire Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the two recent installments of 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/when-seeking-the-right-answer-is-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation in Education Fairs<\/a> I conducted a science workshop for teachers and administrators. The workshop covered imparting critical thinking skills by getting students to tackle open-ended questions. In the workshop, I discussed critical thinking skills and how they can be imparted to students by having them tackle open-ended problems. I actually had the participants engage in a simple activity to generate open-ended questions based on the observations they recorded during the activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentations were mostly successful as evidenced by the testimonials the participants provided. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/testimonial\/ief-2017-kathmandu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to read the testimomials from participants at the Kathmandu fair and <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/testimonial\/ief-2017-pokhara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for those from participants at the Pokhara fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, I speak both English and Nepali in the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"IEF Air Fire Water\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FAiwvWYeUQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have used the activity featured in the presentation in the past with my students, of course. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/igcse-chemistry\/form-4-de\/f4-magical-candle\/\">here<\/a> for an adaptation of the activity as a form 4 IGCSE chemistry task. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp4-5-science\/m4-chemistry\/m4-magical-candle\/\">here<\/a> for an an adaptation of the activity as a MYP Year 4 Chemistry task, which is pretty much the same as the IGCSE task. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/dp-chemistry\/dp1\/dp1-magical-candle\/\">here<\/a> for an adaptation of the activity as an IB Diploma chemistry activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of the workshop I conducted at the Innovation in Education Fair in Pokhara last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Video of science workshop conducted at Innovation in Education Fair Pokhara. #Nepal","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[340],"tags":[516,508,509,518,251,211,483,515],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacher-education","tag-bookbus-nepal","tag-critical-thinking","tag-innovation-in-education-fair","tag-satori-center-for-the-arts","tag-science","tag-science-teaching","tag-teacher-training-in-nepal","tag-the-us-embassys-book-bus"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IEF-Pokhara-Air-Fire-Water-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-3q0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29776,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions\/29776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}