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Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...Education campaigns that, for example, feature fatal or serious collisions caused by a distracted driver can actually play into these biases. Such campaigns appear to confirm drivers’ belief that they can handle it, while these other ‘inferior’ drivers could not. For these over-confident drivers, perhaps the only deterrent would be the threat of enforcement. But in...
Keeping Ahead in ICT
Science, Maths & Technology

Keeping Ahead in ICT

...technology that defines the digital age. Today, the latest mobile phone technology has changed everything. To reach the poorest communities, the government has had to adapt the technology and build new commercial partnerships. The six video tracks in this album introduce the size of the challenge, government policy and initiatives and the businesses that benefit. This...
What does Moon music sound like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does Moon music sound like?

...technology and science are merging together to create an art form known as 'SciArt'. One of the benefits of SciArt is sharing scientific research to a wider audience. The Earth’s Reflection is a SciArt collaboration between The Open University’s Dr Mahesh Anand, a Reader in Planetary Science and Exploration and Yazz Ahmed, a trumpet and flugelhorn player of British...
Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...L., Petrou, M., and Scanlon, E (2013), The Talk Factory: Supporting 'exploratory talk' around an Interactive Whiteboard in primary school science, Technology, Pedagogy and Education.22 (1) pp. 89-102. MILLER, S., 2016. How Literature Discussion Shapes Thinking: Vygotsky's Educational Practice in Cultural Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 289-316....
How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary new way. No matter whether you speak English or Urdu, Waloon or Waziri, Portuguese or Persian, the roots of your language are the same. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the mother tongue – shared by several hundred contemporary languages, as well as many now extinct, and spoken by people who lived from about 6,000 to 3,500...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...technology; for example, affordability, fear of using technology or personal circumstances. This is why the NHS Digital Health organisation in England and the Scottish and Welsh government have also developed initiatives to increase accessibility and to empower people to feel included in decisions about their health and wellbeing. This is explored in the context of a...
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...education. He was picked out during the Nazi regime as one of the “socially undesirable children” and entered into the Nazi euthanasia programme. He was confined to a psychiatric institution in Vienna where Nazi doctors conducted cruel experiments with the children. He managed to survive the atrocities but the horror did not end there for him. When he later recognised...
The Future of Language
Languages

The Future of Language

...technologies, there’s been speculation in some places that language as we know it may become obsolete in the near future!...This short animation examines how social and technological changes are likely to transform the way we communicate over the coming decades. Transcript Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture of...