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Games, Geeks and the Parent's Dilemma
Languages

Games, Geeks and the Parent's Dilemma

...Teacher’s debate both the positive and negative impact games can have on the lives of their students and Dr Kieron Sheehy outlines some of the beneficial uses of gaming. Discussion In this final track we hear a discussion about some of issues raised in the previous tracks, such as whether games are addictive; if they provoke violence; and what exactly a ‘geek’ is....
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Audio 1 hr 14 mins
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...student, or as a qualified social worker. Becoming a critical practitioner is an ongoing process rather than an end point. It is often done in conjunction with others, for example in supervision, through collaboration with people with lived experience and alongside other social work and interprofessional colleagues. In this course, you will look at a theoretical model...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...students’ ability to recover from adversity, learn from experiences, and respond constructively to life’s challenges. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) supports this by helping children understand emotions and build the self-confidence needed to cope with hardship and grow stronger. For SEL to be effective in crisis contexts, it must be rooted in children’s...
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Article 5 mins
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...become “vanishingly small”, but the chances of exceeding 7°C will increase and could become more likely than not within the next century. The authors see very little chance that global sea level rise will slow down, and every chance that it will accelerate. The only question is by how much. “While an increase of somewhere between 40cm and 1m looks likely this...
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Article 10 mins
What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?
History & The Arts

What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?

...become increasingly indistinguishable from humans, the series explore notions of what it is to be human: societally, culturally, and psychologically. The second series was particularly concerned with the rights associated with being able to think and feel – and the right to a fair trial. Odi, an outdated NHS caregiving Syth who features in both seasons, chooses a form...
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Video 10 mins
Welcome to nowhere special
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Welcome to nowhere special

...become bilingual and largely follows the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Article 14 stipulates that “The inscription of words on informative signs […] in countries not using the Latin alphabet shall be both in the national language and in the form of a transliteration into the Latin alphabet reproducing as closely as possible the pronunciation in the...
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Article 5 mins
Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...becoming a normal feature of the cultural calendar. In fact, research shows that over three-quarters of people in the UK have heard of Veganuary. But its rapid expansion may be surprising. The brainchild of its founders Jane Land and Matthew Glover, Veganuary began with just 3,300 sign-ups in 2014. Since then, it’s mushroomed (no pun intended!) to 1.8 million people...
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Article 5 mins
Club v Country: The psychology of switching support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club v Country: The psychology of switching support

...become our ‘in-group’. Players and fans of other clubs become an ‘out-group’, and psychologists have found that whilst in-groups will cohere by adopting shared beliefs and behaviours, they will also feel hostility towards out-groups, particularly when groups are put in a position where they must compete against each other. In-group to out-group Of course, the...
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