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Education & Development
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
...system. And think in two ways about this, first, that you can substitute typical classes for a peer tutor relationship in math, in reading skills, in a number of areas where instead of going and sitting and getting, you can work on these social skills and relationships while kids are getting what they need. The other thing is there may be some kids with Asperger's and...
Education & Development
Critical thinking – A skill and a process
...thinking is essential. Anne Wesemann explains the benefits...[angels with a book statue] Learning appears to be a process of information intake and digestion. We read, hear or see something and our brain processes what it was confronted with. Ideally, we’ll remember that piece of information and are able to use it in an appropriate situation in the future. Now, that...
History & The Arts
Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
...thinking? Mark Pinder and Paul-François Tremlett explain a few things to keep in mind when assessing other people’s arguments, and also when offering your own...Arguments We’ve all encountered that situation in which we think one thing, and someone else thinks another. Perhaps you think that Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time, whereas I think...
Education & Development
Anne Wesemann on critical thinking
The Open University's Anne Wesemann explains the meaning of critical thinking in this extended interview from 'Go the Distance'.
Digital & Computing
Software development for enterprise systems
...system. It is useful to have a notation more abstract than program code to help us think about classes. A class diagram is one of the UML techniques previously mentioned, and we will be using it for this purpose. In a class diagram, each class is represented by a box called a class icon, divided into three areas, called compartments. The top compartment contains the class...
Money & Business
Systems explained by Humberto Maturana
...systems...In this set of YouTube videos based on material filmed at The Open University in 1997 the late Prof. Humberto Maturana discusses some of his key ideas. The segments come from an edited conversation between Humberto Maturana and Prof. Ray Ison, Professor of Systems at the OU. Prof Raul Espejo who worked with Humberto in Chile during the Allende years and later...
Digital & Computing
An introduction to computers and computer systems
...systems, challenges how we view computers through the examples of processors in kitchen scales and digital cameras, as well as examining the work of art that, at heart, is a computer. You will also explore how computers are connected together to achieve even more than when working alone...This free course, An introduction to computers and computer systems, challenges how...