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Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...technology, radio has layered the spaces of everyday life and given both voices and listening ears to a range of trans-border communities on both local and global scales. Certainly the audio booth and the sound installation, both in the exhibition space at Tate Modern and on Twitter, used radio aesthetics to help participants formulate or resurrect memories about...
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Article 15 mins
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...technological advances, into pictures, we have commissioned, essentially, a World on the Move on television, where we’ll be following the movement of animals around the world, using all sorts of technology. So I could argue in terms of ideas you can take more risks on radio, radio is always ahead of television, but pictures are so moving, they’re so driving, and when...
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Video 30 mins
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...technologies that make genetic testing possible range from chemical tests for gene products in the blood, through examining chromosomes from whole cells, to identification of the presence or absence of specific, defined DNA sequences, such as the presence of mutations within a gene sequence. The last of these is becoming much more common in the wake of the Human Genome...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...education and the advice of others, was how to take the time to pause, to reflect on his experience and to actively explore his own thoughts. When doing self-reflection like this it is useful to note down your thoughts so that you can revisit them again at another time. You can also see if your thinking has changed over time. Self-reflection is something you will find...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...technology rather than notation for the creation and dissemination of works. Other traditions, including many in the non-western world, have passed on musical practices and works largely through oral/aural communication. In spite of the technological developments listed above, the one form of communication which remains inherent to all our musical experiences is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The story of the Welsh national anthem
History & The Arts

The story of the Welsh national anthem

...educated, English-born, Cardiff organist using the self-appointed title ‘Professor of Music’. He claimed that ‘Hen Wlad fy Nhadau’ was not Welsh at all, but a plagiarised version of a folk song that had been enhanced by the English composer Thomas Dibdin: it was a ‘note for note’ forgery to which seditious, nationalistic Welsh words had been added. The ensuing...
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What did Bernie Sanders' campaign achieve?
Society, Politics & Law

What did Bernie Sanders' campaign achieve?

...education, pulled the Republican centre rightward in 2000. Theirs are not necessarily household names, but their influence mattered. George W Bush doubled down on his pro-life rhetoric and ratcheted up his promises for tax breaks in reaction; Sharpton and Kucinich forced John Kerry to pay greater attention to social justice and the anti-war groups among Democrats. Sanders...
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The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...Education (which desegregated schools in 1954) and Roe v Wade (which legalised abortion in 1973), and the overall advance of a progressive social agenda – one that to them culminated in the election and presidency of Barack Obama. This politics of resentment gathered steam during the Trump campaign, and as the events in Charlottesville demonstrate, it’s now...
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