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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...system of shelves. These are the “control” mice used by Christakis and neuroscientist Nino Ramirez, and their team, trying to understand the impact on young brains of being exposed to fast-paced media. Across the corridor an experiment is underway. One of the mouse containers is surrounded by bright lights and speakers. For 42 days, six hours every day, baby mice are...
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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...system which we live in, where unemployment is a structural part of that economic system. And it is that issue of having common shared interests which are in collision with the interests of another class. So if you are working class then, as I say, or you work for somebody else for a living, it is in your interest to have higher wages, better conditions at work, you rely...
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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...system and they also have options to comment as well. A lot of the feedback personally I’ve got is: ‘Wow that was a big help, it was a big time saver, I was really struggling with this, thank you so much’ and its similar feedback that I’ve given to other people. It’s also nice to hear feedback from people saying ‘the children loved this, it worked really well...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Systems Committee Question 4 OCWC Answer OpenCourseWare Consortium Question 5 VLE Answer Virtual learning environment Question 6 VUSSC Answer Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth Question 7 OERu Answer Open educational resources university Question 8 Jorum Answer A repository of learning and teaching materials, but not an acronym. The word ‘jorum’...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...system where you prepare for the eventual day when an asteroid is on a collision course, but that would be extremely expensive and no government is willing to spend that much money on that. RH: So around that sort of time I met John Houghton, who went on to become Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Science Working Group and he was also struggling with...
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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...systems: the water system; where Consolidated Edison was getting its oil and things for the power system; on and on. And the impression that it left me with was that the world was a more physical place than I’d realised. I grew up in a suburb, like most Americans, and suburbs are, kind of, devices for hiding the operations of the planet, so I didn’t really have a...
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Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...System. This can include a pre-arranged check in with a colleague before and after the interview, where the colleague has a process to follow if you do not check in with them as planned. Remote interviews can offer more convenience, but they are reliant on the chosen technology (internet connection, phone signal, devices) working well for the duration of the interview....
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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...system of coding must be in operation when a different language is employed. However often we might insist on calling a ‘vache’ a ‘cow’ when in France, it will always remain a ‘vache’ for ‘les Français’. Although we may represent five cows by the number 5, it remains true that if we say or write that there are ‘five cows’ a French person will not...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs