Health, Sports & Psychology
Desires and beliefs
Using two different experiments, psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik shows how children of different ages think about the minds of others...Transcript.
Science, Maths & Technology
Design for beginners
...thinking about design principles from how letters are shaped to creating three dimensional models. This material forms part of The Open University course U101 Design thinking... Shapes of letters Steve Garner uses a newspaper to show how you can observe shapes of letters. Tone in design Steve Garner gives examples of how to create a range of tones. The overlay technique...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Social media and networks in health and social care
...system, only at sub-second speeds. Just as the postal service enables people to send one another envelopes containing messages, the internet enables computers to send one another small packets of digital data. (BBC, 2014) Almost all adults (91%) in the UK use the internet and adults with disabilities are increasing their use of the internet too (78% of those with reported...
Education & Development
School geography: Exploring a definition
...systems around the world do not have geography with the status of a separate subject. Schools in England and Wales are different. Here, geography is a national curriculum subject (5–14 years) and the former Minister for Schools (Stephen Twigg) has asserted the subject's importance in several speeches in 2004. For example, he says: ‘The unique contribution of geography...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
...think about a variety of elements of a person’s life to help them take a holistic view of their circumstances. It enables them to gather an individual's understanding of their situation, their strengths and their needs in relation to it and allows them to start to identify some of the key elements that are important to the person, as well as potentially identifying the...
Level 2: Intermediate
12 hrs
Education & Development
Secondary learning
...systems – we learn by doing/experiencing. More simply, think about learning situations in which we ‘doodle’ or pace the floor or gesticulate; these are all examples of physical activity supporting cognitive activity. Embodied cognition theory appears similar to that of situated cognition, but whereas that theory regards cognition as concerned with abstract...
History & The Arts
How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?
...system since 2006, when his health began to deteriorate, but his legacy, both within Cuba and internationally, is hard to overestimate. This is the man who led a small band of guerrilla fighters to power in the late 1950s, outlasted nine US presidents and ended up at the centre of the most dangerous moment in the Cold War. He even holds the record for the longest speech...
Education & Development
Physical and mental health for young children
...think ‘being healthy’ means? In order to hear a child’s views, take a look at the thoughts of 8-year-old Oscar. Activity 1 Terms Timing: 5 minutes Take a few minutes to think of words or terms that you’re aware of that relate to children’s health. Make some notes in the response box below. Discussion You may have come up with words such as health, health...