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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...mental models and frameworks to hang ideas and information on being able to distinguish relative importance and seeing patterns and relationships. The following activity is designed to help you see the power of structuring information and ideas. Activity 14 Read through the following list of words one at a time, then cover it up and see how many words you can remember:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...mental check of the answers to each of the PROMPT criteria in Table 1 above. It is often worth scrolling to the bottom of a website’s home page, where there is often an ‘About us’ link, and other information relevant to the PROMPT criteria...Session 2: Getting to grips with information: 7 This session’s quiz - Check what you’ve learned this session by taking the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...health needs that the practitioner has not been trained to prescribe exercise for or an athlete may ask the coach to look at an injury for them, which they have little knowledge of. In this instance it would be unethical for the coach/instructor to do anything they are not qualified to do. Lack of resources: individuals should not agree to a role for which they may not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...mental pictures formed in childhood are false because the child and man have different standards, and furthermore the child mind exaggerates everything; nevertheless, such pictures persist until the scene or object so visualized is actually looked upon and the old image shattered. This refers to scenes visualized with the inner eye, but the disillusion is almost as great...
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Article 10 mins
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...health and put together all the sequences that make the rover measure and image the targets that we scientists pick out as interesting and of scientific importance. I am a mineralogist by training, and thus I am part of the science team, more specifically, the science team that looks at the geology and mineralogy investigations that the rover carries out. Our science team...
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Article 15 mins
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...mental condition of Gloucester and his sons and sympathize with them, than it is to do so into that of Lear and his daughters. In the fourth scene, the banished Kent, so disguised that Lear does not recognize him, presents himself to Lear, who is already staying with Goneril. Lear asks who he is, to which Kent answers, one doesn't know why, in a tone quite inappropriate...
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Article 15 mins
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...health warnings with regard to concepts: they ‘see concepts as sites of contestation’, observing that they are likely to have ‘multiple meanings that cannot be reduced to a single straightforward definition’. They observe that ‘Geography is a discipline that involves creating concepts in response to changes in the natural world’. Equally in a dynamic subject...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...mental models. These are epistemological issues. The bases for knowing about, and acting in, a situation is different to that encountered in most other units with a ‘T’ (technology) code. Each of these will be discussed briefly below...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: 2.2 The nature of systems thinking and systems practice - There are no...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs