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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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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
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...education or training, anxious about our future. Some of us had shown great promise at school, but now we were stuck, most of our parents could not pay for our further education and there were no national projects to employ us. And here we were, hating the place we loved, because it was on the verge of choking us to death. This was the state of the Caribbean at that time....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...Education, 2021) the funds and knowledge concept is helpful with all children, but particularly helpful when thinking about bilingual children because they are coming with linguistic and cultural forms of knowledge. This might, for example, include knowledge about languages, histories and places, as well as about types of narratives, foods or clothing, or attitudes to...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 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
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...education. [Described image] Figure 2 A steelworks It is useful to distinguish these broad economic sectors as we can see that there will be important differences between a business operating in the primary sector and one that provides a service. Nonetheless, it would also seem obvious that there may be big differences between businesses within the same broad economic...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...Education site Techopedia (2017) defines disruptive technology as ‘any enhanced or completely new technology that replaces and disrupts an existing technology, rendering it obsolete. It is designed to succeed similar technology that is already in use.’ Păvăloaia and Necula (2023) conclude that the five most prominent examples of disruptive ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs