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Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...perceptions of nature will create conflicting methodologies in terms of the environment – most of all, in terms of how we see it. Without a perception of the natural world, we aren’t quite sure what it is we are trying to save. (Lamb, 1996, p. 475) You will see that Lamb’s argument was focused on environmental awareness, an important factor which will be discussed...
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...perceptions so that books, reading and the library are seen in a positive light. It is this positive mindset upon which a reading-rich culture is built. By the end of this session, you should be able to: appreciate the importance of reading for pleasure adopt a range of strategies which help promote reading understand how to elevate reading to a special status...Session...
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...perception of a subject (or part thereof); sometimes it may even transform one’s personal identity. Irreversible – it is unlikely that a threshold concept is forgotten or unlearned once acquired due to transformation. Integrative – a threshold concept is able to expose ‘the previously hidden interrelatedness of something’. Bounded – a threshold concept can...
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...perception isn’t always that accurate. You’ve probably seen prices carefully set to appear lower. For example, a new phone or a spectacular pair of shoes can look like a bargain if priced at £199, but don’t be fooled into thinking that it’s meaningfully less than £200...Week 3: Learning to ‘talk the talk’: 3.4 Fractions and Percentages - [This is an...
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...perceptions generated by official accounts, established theories, popular stereotypes, and widespread myths and ideologies, especially those about low status or marginalised categories of person or group. Qualitative research often evaluates these myths and ideologies negatively against the complex reality of people’s actual views and practices. Examples of this kind of...
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...perception is a necessary preliminary to seeing how such a process can be implemented by a computer...Data and processes in computing: 5.1 Arithmetic operations - Processes such as addition of numbers are called binary operations. (The word “binary” here reflects the fact that a binary operation combines two data items.) A binary operation is a particular form of...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...perceptions, and no one can unscramble them or wipe away the accents which description and interpretation superimpose upon the picture. (Gombrich, 1966, p. 66) If, for example, Caravaggio's Capitoline St John is in fact Isaac Laughing, there is good reason why it has taken so long for the title to be ‘corrected’. The title effectively sets the description and...
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...perception and learning, again, a huge amount of progress. The Watson system extracting information from text. Cars watching the world as they go by. Learning algorithms that classify images and write descriptions. Even a system that discovers the concept of a cat entirely for itself just by looking at millions of images of everything under the sun. Now, a lot of this...