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Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...bb&mp=wm&news=1&bbcws=1 (Accessed: 18/4/2011). Bush, V. (1945) ‘As we may think’, The Atlantic Monthly. Available at: www.theatlantic.com/ magazine/ archive/ 1945/ 07/ as-we-may-think/ 303881/ (Accessed: 08/07 2018). van Gelder, T., Bissett, M. and Cumming, G. (2004) ‘Cultivating expertise in informal reasoning’, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue...
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...circuit. Hello again. This week we look at ways of generating electricity from solar radiation directly using solid state electronic devices, photovoltaic or PV panels in arrays like these. PV panels are made from a specially treated junction between two different types of electronic semiconductor, positive or P-type and negative or N-type. When photons of light fall in...
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...BB GB HighlightedG BG GG Alternatively, it can be shown as a tree diagram: [Described image] Figure 27 A tree diagram showing first and second child gender outcomes Both the table and the tree diagram show that there are four possibilities: BB – boy then another boy BG – boy then a girl GB – girl then a boy GG – girl then another girl Out of the possibilities...
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...BB GB HighlightedG BG GG Alternatively, it can be shown as a tree diagram: [Described image] Figure 27 A tree diagram showing first and second child gender outcomes Both the table and the tree diagram show that there are four possibilities: BB – boy then another boy BG – boy then a girl GB – girl then a boy GG – girl then another girl Out of the possibilities...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...circuit’ around the country. Packing up your belongings and working elsewhere in the country for a week provides some variety, though it is also a solitary existence. To remain entirely detached from the cases they are hearing, judges are expected to stay in different accommodation even from the court officials who also travel on circuit. Whether dealing with criminal...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...circuit that makes a microprocessor might be thought of as a radical innovation in terms of its wider economic and social consequences. However, if we use a microprocessor to control the speed at which a room fan rotates, it would in Henderson and Clark’s terminology be a ‘modular’ innovation – it completely changes the design of one component of the fan, but does...
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...Le Devin du village – The Village Soothsayer) he highlighted the virtues of simple people in communion with nature and their own hearts. If the interest in nature expressed by most Enlightenment thinkers was less intense than Rousseau's, it is nevertheless true that all of them used the word ‘nature’ in a polemical sense, to highlight by contrasting with nature...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...les regretz and Tous nobles cuers), set here by La Rue, were written to console the young Margaret following her dismissal from the French court in 1493 – she had been resident there since 1483 during her betrothal to Charles VIII of France, but he renounced the engagement and instead married Anne, Duchess of Brittany. The theme of regret reappears throughout the...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs