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Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...Write a paragraph in your notes to clarify and explain your views...Week 1: How different is a digital childhood?: 1.3 Why is technology so appealing? - [Described image] Figure 4 Why do children find digital technology so absorbing? As Lydia Plowman suggests in the previous section, children are often very engaged by digital technology. But why is it so compelling for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...write down the prices you hear, as in the example. Escucha y escribe. Here’s someone asking about the price of fruit and vegetables. —¿Cuánto valen los plátanos? —Uno cincuenta el kilo. —¿A cuánto están los limones? —Los limones a uno veinte el kilo. —¿Cuánto vale el kilo de patatas? —Setenta céntimos. —¿A cuánto está el kilo de tomates? —A...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...writing literature (which is not true of every language). This pushed them in novel and interesting directions, allowing them to express new ideas with freshly minted words or with existing words endowed with new meanings. We catch sight of this process in the development of Latin as a philosophical language. The responsibility for this lies primarily with Cicero, who has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...write down accounts of evolution that do not assume purpose or direction...Studying mammals: The insect hunters: 1 Meeting the insect eaters - As you work through this course you will come across boxes, like this one, which give you advice about the study skills that you will be developing as you progress through the course. To avoid breaking up the flow of the text, they...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...write the programme that I wanted to do and there aren’t many places that will let you do that, they always want to line you up and put you in boxes very early on and I just knew what I wanted to do, which was to look actually at television and see what television had to say about the natural world. Documentaries I’m most proud of Well there’d be a number of...
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An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...write the lowest note on the violin, the lower G on the top staff in Example 8, you would need the G that sits below the upper staff and has two ledger lines. The concept of ledger lines can also be applied at the top of the treble staff and at the bottom of the bass staff (Example 9). Example 9 However, the more ledger lines you use, the more difficult it is to read the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...writing on papyri. Later still, there developed a cursive, everyday script called demotic, that looks like a mad doctor's handwriting at the end of a bad day. Most of the handful of extant mathematical papyri are written in hieratic. Because of the great variability of hieratic and demotic in the hands of different scribes, Egyptologists habitually transcribe all texts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...writing in saying, ‘Why isn’t this put on at prime time, why is it tucked away at some really late time?’ And from public talks I give, people want to know about what’s happening in the world, so it’s only my personal ideas, but I think people really are interested in environmental issues. Has natural history broadcasting fully covered the global decline in...
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Video 20 mins