-NEWS means Notable Events, Weather and Sports

-News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication etc
-Common topics for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy, business, fashion, and entertainment, as well as athletic events, quirky or unusual events.
-Government proclamations, concerning laws, taxes, public health, and criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times.
-Humans exhibit a nearly universal desire to learn and share news, which they satisfy by talking to each other and sharing information. -Technological and social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. -The genre of news as we know it today is closely associated with the newspaper.
-Most purveyors of news value impartiality, neutrality, and objectivity, despite the inherent difficulty of reporting without political bias.
-Perception of these values has changed greatly over time as sensationalized ‘tabloid journalism’ has risen in popularity.

-Michael Schudson has argued that before the era of World War I and the concomitant rise of propaganda, journalists were not aware of the concept of bias in reporting, let alone actively correcting for it.

-News is also sometimes said to portray the truth, but this relationship is elusive and qualified.
-Paradoxically, another property commonly attributed to news is sensationalism, the disproportionate focus on, and exaggeration of, emotive stories for public consumption.
-This news is also not unrelated to gossip, the human practice of sharing information about other humans of mutual interest.
-A common sensational topic is violence; hence another news dictum, “if it bleeds, it leads”.
-News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio, or internet in the field of broadcast journalism.
-The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom, or by a broadcast network.
-It may also include additional material such as sports coverage weather forecasts, traffic reports, commentary, and other material that the broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience.
-Television news refers to disseminating current events via the medium of television. A “news bulletin” or a “newscast” are television programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on international, national, regional, and/or local news events.
-Television news is very visually-based, showing video footage of many of the events that are reported; still photography is also used in reporting news stories, although not as much in recent years as in the early days of broadcast television. Television channels may provide news bulletins as part of a regularly scheduled news program. Less often, television shows may be interrupted or replaced by breaking news reports (“news flashes”) to provide news updates on events of great importance.
-In India first telecast began in Delhi on 14 September 1959, with a small transmitter and a makeshift studio.
-But Regular daily transmission started in 1965 as part of All India Radio, with a five-minute news bulletin read by Ms Pratima Puri.
-As of June 2016 the total number of Television Channels were 892 out of which 403 were news and current affairs channels
-There is an explicit expectation that the media’s coverage should be “positive” and follow the official line.

Experiential learning is the application of theory and academic content to real-world experiences, either within the classroom, within the community, or within the workplace, which advances program or course-based learning outcomes that are specifically focused on employability skills.

-The general concept of learning through experience is ancient.
-Around 350 BCE, Aristotle wrote I quote”for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”. Unquote
-But as an articulated educational approach, experiential learning is of much more recent vintage.
-Beginning in the 1970s, David A. Kolb helped to develop the modern theory of experiential learning, drawing heavily on the work of John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget.
-Experiential learning has significant teaching advantages.

-Peter Senge author of The Fifth Discipline (1990), states that teaching is of utmost importance to motivate people.

-Learning only has good effects when learners have the desire to absorb the knowledge.
-Therefore, experiential learning requires the showing of directions for learners.
-Experiential learning entails a hands-on approach to learning that moves away from just the teacher at the front of the room imparting and transferring their knowledge to students.
-It makes learning an experience that moves beyond the classroom and strives to bring a more involved way of learning.
-Experiential learning has existed in India since the ancient times in the form of the gurukul system where the student benefits from partaking in various open activities, eventually learning through daily chores and lessons mediated by their teacher.

-The current era is considered as the era of knowledge.

-Knowledge systems are either monopolized or prejudiced
-Social understanding regarding many phenomena are skewed
-Many social problems exist due to minimum knowledge about various aspects of society
-Social progression depends on the fact based policies
-Many social policies and programmes do not reach the desired goal since it is not planed and implemented and evaluated based on proper data collected from the society and focused groups

-Local bodies like panchayath and municipalities fail to make focused projects and plans since they do not have techniques to collect and evaluate data.

-Many students of Social sciences and Commerce fail to conceptualize and understand the phenomena of academic importance for the want of proper methods and techniques of Understanding the various phenomena relevant to their field of study.
-Many Compulsory projects as part of the academic requirement end up as pirated contents since students have minimum ability and skill to evolve their own thesis independently.
-One example of experiential learning is going to the zoo and learning through observation and interaction with the zoo environment, as opposed to reading about animals from a book.
-Thus, one makes discoveries and experiments with knowledge firsthand, instead of hearing or reading about others’ experiences.

-Mr Raghuram Rajan, Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, educationist and one of the leading economists in the world, said, Education should become experiential in nature, enabling students to not just consume information, but also use it effectively in the real world.

-Such an approach, called interwoven learning, interweaves various academic disciplines and breaks the silos between the classroom and the real world thereby training students for an increasingly complex, diverse and dynamic world.
-Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is?
-The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.
-This concept is more relevant than ever in todays time, where the attention span of students is decreasing, experiential learning is emerging to be the future of education.