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Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...centred approach to teaching, which is underpinned by a constructivist view of learning – that learners construct knowledge and understanding for themselves through activities, experiences, thought and discussion. Now listen to an introduction to this course by its author, Sandra Amos: Sandra Amos Hello. I'm Sandra Amos, the author of this course. I have a wealth of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...children were most certainly going to be subject to racism at points in their lives, as I, my friends and family members had been. Now a Baroness, Doreen Lawrence (Stephen’s mother) spoke about how, even though she experienced extreme anger on many occasions, she felt she could not outwardly show this emotion, especially to the white media. It can be argued that, in her...
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Article 10 mins
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...children and a patron of the poor, all of which paint an essentially accurate picture of the man. But he also attracted considerable criticism, being described by his detractors as a knave, a charlatan and a speculative, scheming, mischievous individual. He had enormous wealth, much of it spent on his propaganda campaigns and, it has to be admitted, on self-promotion. Yet...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...research team have discovered a way to hack into medical implants...[Surgery in a hospital] Well this one sounds like something from a science-fiction movie. A research team in Belgium has worked out how to hack into the communications used by an implanted medical device – that is a piece of technology permanently placed inside a living person. In this case, the device...
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Article 5 mins
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...research indicates that a high level of multilingualism and multiculturalism makes people more tolerant of ambiguity (Dewaele and Wei 2013). Language learning is fraught with ambiguity, particularly in situations where real communication needs to take place, and language learners who are not able to tolerate this kind of ambiguity can find it very challenging to cope,...
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Article 5 mins
How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...research shows how dramas like Coronation Street can help make sense of abstract political debates, explains Robert Topinka...The study of politics is often the study of war, conflict, terrorism, and statecraft, of the exceptional rather than the everyday. But political identities and ideologies also take shape in the space of ordinary life, in daily routines and banal...
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Article 5 mins
Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...research leader and campaigner for clean air at the non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Petcoke has far more sulphur content than coal while natural gas has none. But general service tax (GST), now being rolled out in the country as part of tax reforms, seems to favour petcoke over gas. Thus, while clean natural gas attracts a 30 per cent tax, coal is...
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Article 5 mins
Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...Cyber Security Centre (GCHQ) More about SamSam https://www.secureworks.com/research/samsam-ransomware-campaigns https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/03/samsam-ransomware.html?m=1 https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/01/samsam-evolution-continues-netting-over.html Atlanta’s spending to fix SamSam http://procurement.atlantaga.gov/awarded-emergency-procurements/...
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Article 5 mins