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Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...analysis, consider in general terms the main differences in character between the two poems and the two songs. Click below to listen to Heidenröslein. Click below to listen to Wanderers Nachtlied II. Click to read these two songs in English and German Click to view the musical score for Heidenröslein Discussion In the following and subsequent discussions I will offer...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...analysis of the paint will not satisfy you. But it would be a mistake to think that this is an objection to reductive explanation. High-level descriptions of a phenomenon are not made redundant by a reductive explanation of it. The two serve quite different purposes: one tells us how the phenomenon appears to us, the other how it is constituted. Indeed, the two approaches...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...analysis, proportions in Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa seem to be based on the Golden Ratio (Figure 16, left). Another example of the application of the Golden Ratio can be seen in the proportions of the head and chest of Mona Lisa (Figure 16, right). Wikipedia Creative commons Figure 16 Left: The Mona Lisa; Right: The Mona Lisa with a Golden Ratio grid...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...data first published in 2016, presents the difference between skills and competencies required from the work force in 2015 and 2020. Table 1 Top 10 skills required from the work force IN 2020 IN 2015 1. Complex problem solving 1. Complex problem solving 2. Critical thinking 2. Coordinating with others 3. Creativity 3. People management 4. People management 4. Critical...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...analysis. I love the construction, and I love bricklaying and I think it's really exciting and I want to ask Esther if she's got another metaphor or a rather different view of how that approach to social construction and social constructionism holds D218 together. Esther Saraga I think it does link the course in particular sorts of ways and I think it's a really useful,...
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...analysis of male spot numbers. At 20 months, the populations had diverged even more than at the time of the second sample, with groups A and B now averaging 13.0 spots per fish and group C averaging 9.5 (Figure 3). Do the results summarized in Figure 3 support the hypothesis that, through natural selection, the presence of predatory fish affects the number of spots on...
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...data are really fascinating. If you were perfectly entrained, the body clock was exactly locked on, the period of the peaks would be exactly 24 hours, but they’re not. In fact, we’ve got a period of 24.2, which is a little bit longer, which fits with the idea that the body clock is beginning to drift. Those peaks are getting a little bit later and later. Tom Dyckhoff...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...data handling investigation that his learners had carried out. There is no unique or universal set of processes in mathematics. The following five mathematical processes have been mentioned in various reports (for example, NCTM, 1989). They partially overlap with the six you have just been thinking about in Activity 7, and are similar to the key processes listed in the...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs