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Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...creative Everyday approaches to teaching also emerge from the empirical research into creative pedagogies. They rely upon an open ethos and high degree of acceptance of children’s ideas, setting aside time for learners to explore resources and generate ideas. They seek authentic, real-world, practical, open-ended problems, that allow for imaginative scenarios and...
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Article 15 mins
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...writing and speaking language skills. Section 5: Language and culture – ideas for three short plays or sketches. Section 6: International Christmas – an exploration of the many and different Christmas traditions around the world, as an example of the connections between language and culture. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Travelling Objects
History & The Arts

Travelling Objects

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence The image material acknowledged within the interactive is used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the sources for permission to reproduce material in this interactive. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been...
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Activity 30 mins
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...Writing, in September 2017, about flags, and the act of ‘flagging up’ or mapping out symbols that define our identities, home and belonging, I come to think, as Paul Gilroy did, that the assimilation of transnational diasporas and migrants is not a process of acculturation, but of cultural syncretism. So how can national symbols, such as flags, represent Britain’s...
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Article 10 mins
Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...writing good sex scenes? This article explores...[XXX across book ] Sexual intercourse is getting on a bit. Not only has it been boosting the human population since we emerged from the primordial swamp, it’s more than half a century since Philip Larkin noted its arrival on the cultural scene in his poem Annus Mirabilis. Until then it was, Larkin writes: A shame that...
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Article 5 mins
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...writing. Creative homework, like the examples you saw in the video of Activity 2, are more inviting for parents. Most parents would be happy, for instance, to help their child cook, draw, observe the local environment, or build a simple model with recycled materials. Homework should be a beneficial learning experience, where parents can participate. Teachers can design...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. Later perceptrons will be able to recognize people and call out their names and instantly translated speech in one language to speech and writing in another language, it was predicted. [The Mark 1 Perceptron, an artificial intelligence machine, being adjusted by Charles Wightman]The Mark 1 Perceptron, being...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...writing in your language notebook the things you want to remember. We’ll give you some more tips for this such as adding examples to your notes. Enjoy the week!...Week 2: Names and introductions: 1 Saying your name - To start this week, you will learn how to say your name using the verb ser (‘to be’). Verbs: ser (‘to be’) Verbs in Spanish are conjugated; this...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs