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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...de-de-de-de. You know, mentally you need to be able to cope with all that pressure and to kind of execute what you’ve done that makes you so good and do it in the most intense situations. Caroline: Pressure is a big part of being involved in a sport so the pressure of, for example, preparing for an Olympic Games in terms of being selected for Olympic Games is a big...
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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...prompts to guide your thinking: your family background, e.g. culture, religion, languages spoken at home your hobbies, e.g. sporting clubs, sewing, cooking your interests/activities, e.g. the natural world, family trips to museums/galleries your family members and family friends. Task 2 What is the value of getting to know children’s experience outside the classroom?...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...concept of logarithm with earlier ideas about progressions and trigonometrical formulae. What seems to you the most striking difference in overall approach? What problem do you see Napier’s work solving? Discussion The major difference is surely in his use of the concept of motion, of points moving along lines with speeds defined in various ways. Both exponents of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...concepts of STiP, and Part 2 Understanding approaches to STiP. The two parts of this course complement each other by way of introducing elements of systems thinking in practice; with understanding threshold concepts of STiP coupled with understanding principles of practice associated with conceptual tools from five resilient approaches to STiP. The course complements the...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...concept, model or design that starts the innovation process. Some degree of novelty is core to innovation, as emphasised by Tidd and Bessant: ‘Innovation is the process of turning opportunity into new ideas and of putting these into widely used practice.’ (Tidd and Bessant, 2009, p. 16) [Described image] Figure 1: A representation of the brain of the innovator What...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?

...prompted a fierce debate, with US presidential candidates and elected officials already at loggerheads over what happens next. [Justice Antonin Scalia Speaks with Staff at the U.S. Mission in Geneva] Justice Scalia Ordinarily the president would choose a nominee and the Senate Judiciary Committee would review the candidate before sending the issue to the full Senate –...
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Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...prompted many schools to refurbish/reclaim their libraries and buy new books. Some have even purchased double decker buses, tents, tree houses and caravans to deck out as school libraries, as well as garden sheds, boats, baths and sofas to enrich classroom reading areas. These physical spaces overtly indicate to parents, governors, Ofsted inspectors and the children that...
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About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...prompting, i.e. “automatically”. In the animal-stroop task, we ask children to look at pictures where the head of the animal has been swapped with another animal. In this case, we ask the child to give us the name for the “body” of the animal. Because the face of the animal pictures is so prominent, children find it difficult to ignore. Therefore, just as with the...
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