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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...intelligence,” Scott Weems tells me. “Humour may be the way of finally getting at what is special about the human condition… I don’t know if it will be in my lifetime, but we’re getting close.” On the opposite side of the USA to Maeve Higgins and Jon Ronson, Jamie Masada is brimming with energy. He’s in the heavily upholstered upstairs bar overlooking the...
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The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...intelligence agency) reported that more than three million wrist-worn wearable devices, such as fitness bands and smartwatches, were estimated to have been sold in the UK in 2015, an increase of 118 per cent from 2014 (Mintel, 2016). However, what this doesn’t tell us is how many of these users are children. With activity trackers for children being a relatively new...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...intelligent, are very used to speaking their second language, being English, in everyday work life, even to their partners, when they’re ill, there is a recognised situation where people revert to their mother tongue, where they feel more comfortable. When people are elderly, it is not unusual to find people who have had a stroke or who have dementia who are only able...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...intelligence. A 1970 study of 850 teachers confirmed that West Indian children were perceived as being aggressive and creating discipline problems. These generalisations were severely damaging the lives of Black children. And for their parents, staying quiet was no longer an option. PAUL WARMINGTON Increasing numbers of Black parents, Black teachers, community workers,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...artificial needs (O’Shaughnessy and O’Shaughnessy, 2002) but, to support a sustainable business, a product or service must serve a genuine purpose. The fads and fashions engineered by some marketing activity are by their nature short-lived. Successful organisations, whether commercial or not-for-profit, understand customer needs sufficiently well to be able to satisfy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...intelligence, along with things like how much you trust the people you know and how strong those relationships are. We can do all of this really well. And again, it doesn't come from what you might think of as obvious information. So my favourite example is from this study that was published this year in the Proceedings of the National Academies. If you Google this,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...intelligence’ and allows higher-order thinking. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Figure 4) is a system for classifying levels of learning behaviour. ‘Creating’ is at the top of the classification. The intentional use of verbs in the classification highlights our understanding of learning as being an active process (Tarlinton, 2003). Creativity is a process and you...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...intelligent and understand complex ideas. The internet, Facebook, YouTube has opened up an opportunity for people to engage with really serious challenging material, shareability has meant that people love to share stuff that makes them look like they really understand some interesting ideas. So I think shareability of quite highbrow content is something which is an...
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