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5 tried-and-tested study tips for dyslexic students
Education & Development

5 tried-and-tested study tips for dyslexic students

...creativity, here are five practical strategies to make studying more effective, less stressful, and more suited to the way you work best...Being dyslexic and studying for a degree can feel challenging at times. It may well be there are some study skills and strategies you haven’t discovered yet that might help you make your study time more effective. Here are five top...
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...writing standards and children’s motivation and engagement as creative and effective writers. Whilst the recruitment process has been hard work and we’re not there yet, it’s this rich combination of outcomes and engagement that seems to have been the key to the 91 primary schools who’ve signed up so far (we need 100 – all are welcome!) I’ve spent many early...
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Article 10 mins
The Romantics
History & The Arts

The Romantics

...creative, artistic and intellectual pursuits in eighteenth century Europe. The era placed greater emphasis on emotion and intuition as opposed to the scientific rationalisation which had gained prominence during ‘The Age of Enlightenment’. In this audio selection, a panel of experts evaluate various elements of this movement and asses themes such as authorship, the...
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Audio 31 mins
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
History & The Arts

Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs

...writing. Edward Lear – the 20th child of a bankrupt and widowed businessman - was brought up by his elder sister. The young Lear had epilepsy – a condition stigmatised at the time, but he also had precocious artistic gifts. As a young man he was summoned to Knowsley Hall in Merseyside to paint the Earl of Derby’s menagerie. The aboriginal names of some of the exotic...
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Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work
History & The Arts

Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work

...writing, and I remember students’ happy discovery of texts they’d never encountered before, like Villette, Shirley, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (which was a favourite with some of the cast and crew as you’ll see), alongside the genuine thrill of working on Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. What impresses me about these three women is their tenacity, and the sense...
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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...writing, and gives examples of good practice and referencing. The course finishes with a reflection on the future of language learning with OMT. By the end of Session 1, you should be able to: understand the history of OMT know which popular OMT exist and how to access them recognise the benefits and limitations of OMT in language learning and teaching recognise the roles...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Studying the arts and humanities
History & The Arts

Studying the arts and humanities

...write more. Remember, there are no wrong or right answers here! Discussion It doesn't matter if you wrote down six reasons or whether you listed more, but we hope that you wrote something. This may seem a small point, but it is important. Learning on your own – without being able to question, or discuss, ideas with others – is a technique that has to be learned; and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...writing. They’re digital writing, but with antecedents in handwriting and print. In other words, they may be a relatively ‘new’ system of communication, but they haven’t come out of nowhere. It seems likely, therefore, that as long as writing remains important for human communication, something akin to emojis will remain. So far, of course, they’ve mostly been...
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