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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...alphabetic code, but instruction alone is not enough – children need to be able to read, and they need to want to read. Thus, the pedagogies, classroom practices and educator characteristics that support children to become engaged readers have the potential to enhance children’s educational attainment, their social and emotional wellbeing, and to enrich their lives....
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...alphabet! So some elements such as calcium and aluminium are represented by the first two letters. Thus calcium is Ca and aluminium is Al. Note that the first letter is always a capital and the second is always written or printed as a small letter (lower case). Question 23 The symbols of the following elements are all of the type just described: helium, nickel, bromine...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...alphabet by patterns of bits. The so-called ASCII code is one standardised way of doing that, using seven binary bits for each character. For example, in ASCII code, the letter A is coded to 1100001, and the letter B is coded to 1100011. Anything we want to send over a digital communication system must first be coded like this, be it text, audio, or whatever. ALLAN JONES...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...alphabetical index “That,” said Rupert, “is my father’s Rolodex. It contains data about all of his clients over his entire career as a private investigator.” “I have seen the term Rolodex used to mean the whole collection of an individual’s business contacts, but I never knew that there was such a thing as a real Rolodex,” said Gloria, showing her age....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...alphabet, A–G, with A returning after G has been reached. Example 4 Notice that as the notes are placed higher and higher up the staff, the pitch becomes higher and higher as well. Notice too that we read music from left to right, and with a whole page of music, from top to bottom. This reflects the way we read words in western culture. The letter, f, in a stylised form...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...alphabetical list of the principal words and their page numbers. Indexing (and concordance as you saw in Week 1, Session 1) are old tools but today we can compile them on a computer in seconds (compared to a production line of medieval friars in the past). We can now navigate large texts interactively and instantly. Activity 1 Index calculations Imagine you have 2 pages...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...alphabet: the Greek κ can be rendered as 'k’ or ‘c’, αι as ‘ai’ or ‘ae’, ος as ‘os’ or ‘us’. This course generally uses the Latinised spellings of the more familiar names – Herodotus (not Herodotos) and Achilles (not Akhilleus), as well as Croesus (Kroisos) and Candaules (Kandaules)...Herodotus and the invention of history: 1.3 The first...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...alphabet or multiplication table, cannot write grammatically…' We've heard this sort of thing, before, not just in 1956 but in 1917. Connecticut schoolteacher, 1917. This is the time when we all assume that everything somehow in terms of writing was perfect because the people on Downton Abbey are articulate, or something like that. So, 'From every college in the country...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs