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Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...children and young people, many adults are already apprehensive about the amount of time kids spend online, with a lot of parents not wanting to encourage any further computer use. People can also be reluctant to try something that is perceived to be very new or untested. However, self-help utilizing modern technology for mental health problems is not a new thing, in the...
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...research process. And once you have found it, you will need to examine it closely and carefully, to judge how reliable it is and whether it is useful to help you answer your question...The Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) is an opportunity for you to work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level...
Buildings of ancient Rome
History & The Arts

Buildings of ancient Rome

...centre of political and social activities, is examined for its importance in modelling city centres throughout the Roman world. This material forms part of The Open University course A219 Exploring the Classical World... Buildings of ancient Rome An introduction to this album’s contents. Temples of republican Rome An introduction to the remains of some of the most...
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...children’. This research is now regarded as unreliable for a number of reasons, but chiefly because it failed to take account of the socio-economic backgrounds of the young people tested. A major research project carried out in Montreal in 1962 was the first to question the received wisdom on this matter. The linguists Elizabeth Peal and Wallace Lambert compared the...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...research, involving the cloning of human embryos, can now be allowed in the UK. How was this ruling reached? What is the story behind cloning? The idea of cloning animals was first suggested in 1938 by a German embryologist called Hans Spemann. He proposed what he called a "fantastical experiment" to remove the nucleus from an egg cell and replace it with a nucleus from...
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Swallows and Amazons
History & The Arts

Swallows and Amazons

...children and the books behind Swallows and Amazons...Explore Swallows and Amazons with exclusive videos and activities. First published in 1930 Swallows and Amazons recounts the adventures of the Walker and Blackett children and their idyllic summer holiday camping and sailing in an imaginary Lake District landscape; encountering pirates and finding buried treasure. From...
Harry Potter and death and bereavement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Harry Potter and death and bereavement

...children may well have been shielded and protected from. J.K. Rowling’s books do the very opposite. They are imbued with death, indeed, the very type of deaths which the reader would not expect to experience. The reader lives in a world where they might expect to live into old age and hope to die in their beds. In the world of Harry Potter, deaths are violent and often...
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Education & Development

Get in touch

...children’s development and those targeted at familial learning, topics or specific initiatives relevant to learning within and across formal schooling. The resources are offered at different learning levels, suitable for anyone receiving or facilitating home education, including those who work with home-educating families. While we can’t guarantee that there is...
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