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An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...aluminium is used instead.) Some of the pins are used to supply the electrical power to the device, while signals are input to and output from the processor via other pins. [This is a photograph of a processor surrounded by gold connection pins.] Figure 1 A processor surrounded by gold connection pins. Figure 2 shows the packaged processor assembled with other components...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...cast wider, which benefits all. All of these coaching commandments are supported by research. If you want to find out more about his final three coaching commandments, you can read the articles below. This is optional and not a requirement. Coaches should use praise and criticism wisely: The problem with praise: praise is not always a good thing (Bailey, 2014b) The way...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...sand.] You have already met Meera, who was researching in a school with Year 7 students. Watch her now as she talks about getting started with a project. What sources of support does she mention? Does she give the impression that doing a research project can be a lonely business? Meera I think teachers who maybe apply for research projects, there is that kind of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...cast for a while, but I could modify my behaviour. So I had a chance to heal. I don’t-- today, I’m just trying to think whether, actually, it’s more difficult today to recover from something like this, because we’ve got computers and cars and things, or whether it actually would be easier to recover today. MATHIJS LUCASSEN Well, we’d certainly have the ways in...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...casting around not quite sure where to go, and so taking up some of those suggested links or opportunistic invitations that can lead them into trouble. It's sometimes said that we can think about encouraging children to go online and explore just like we do in the real world, teaching them to swim, teaching them about the roads and so forth, but here lies something of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...cast in doubt by the ubiquitous use of digital cameras which produce images that can be easily enhanced or twisted. Hockney points to the case during the Iraq war when the Los Angeles Times sacked a photographer for having superimposed two images to make them more powerful. Not everyone entirely agrees. Russell Roberts, head of photography at the National Museum of...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...cast doubts on the reformist ambitions of the Enlightenment...The Enlightenment: 8.4 The Enlightenment and modernity - In its desire to replace outmoded, irrational ways of thinking by the rational, the sensible and the progressive, the Enlightenment was self-consciously modern. A manifestly scientific age and the visible advancement of knowledge in the eighteenth century...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...cast them aside as soon as they lost their relevance and usefulness. Furthermore, while it was not bothered about the overall consistency and coherence of its propaganda, the need to appeal to different shades of political opinion meant that the image of the emperor would ideally balance contradictory elements, reconciling sacred and secular, monarchical and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs