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Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...become more equipped to deal with the world around them. In this video Nathalia Gjersoe focuses on the future, and especially on the impact of changes to formal schooling and education in the next decade and beyond. Childhood in the Digital Age (Combined) Are you a technology optimist or a technology pessimist? The amount of technology available to children today is...
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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping the consequences of our own choices (living in places we ourselves have chosen, doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus,...
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Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...become aware of some of the processes that are going on in the music. This deepens our appreciation of the music. These processes – the basic elements of musical language; the building blocks, if you like – include: Tempo: - the speed of the music Pitch: - the way in which notes appear high or low in relation to one another Rhythm: - the length of certain notes, from...
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...become a valuable way of using film to say ‘We are here!’ And again this process has become gradually more democratised with advances in technology. In the early days, the assistance of sympathetic professionals was needed, as when pioneering photographers went into the slums to photograph the miserable conditions of the nineteenth-century working classes. Their 1930s...
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United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...become the flagship project for the Trust. Looking Ahead Looking back from the vantage point of mid-2022, it is evident that the various community programmes that have been launched over the years have flourished. The Community Trust now delivers A Peoples Pantry, Wellbeing Programme, Community Archives, Rags to Riches, Youth Project, Govanhill Baths Arts Programme,...
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Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life

...become the internationally recognised ‘gold standard’. This policy contains a set of scientific guidelines or recommendations for the avoidance of ‘harmful contamination’. It categorises planets (and moons like Europa) based on their potential for life (or signs of life, past or present). These categories call for differing levels of protective measures (Mars is...
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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...becomes disturbingly visible for viewers, because the ‘animals’ we tend to think of as friends (in the UK at least), or non-human kin (Cudworth, 2011), are suddenly from the same species as those killed to reward human friendships. This thought experiment became real in the ‘horsemeat’ scandal of 2013, in which the widely publicised detection of horses’ DNA in...
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The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911
Society, Politics & Law

The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911

...becoming active. [Singers Sewing Machine Factory, Clydebank.] Singer and ‘scientific management’ Singer also imported new ‘scientific’ management techniques from the US in the form of ‘Taylorism’ which was becoming more widespread in Europe. These were closely intertwined with what became known as ‘Fordist’ style production processes. In the Fordist...
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