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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...write down the answers? d.Just set a date and tell people when it is – democracy is overrated? Question 9: Your boiler has broken down and you need to get hold of an engineer quickly. Do you: a.Consult the app on your smartphone or tablet for finding a tradesman? b.Do an internet search? c.Visit your neighbour and ask who they would recommend? d.Look through the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...Write a list of things that you have done with your body since you got up this morning. Where did you sleep? Did you have a bath or shower? Did you eat breakfast? Where are you now? As you ponder these questions, I would also like you to write down all of the physical things around you that have played a part in those things: furniture, tools and infrastructure. Jot down...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...write your answers to the questions. Write each answer as a short sentence rather than a one-word response. Questions How many people have to use somewhere as a place of work for the ban to apply? Why is smoking in porches and lobbies banned? Ben and Simon share a van for their sandwich delivery business and each drive it on different days of the week. Is Simon allowed to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...writing out the electronic configurations of atoms Consider fluorine, this has an atomic number of 9, which means there are 9 electrons to fit into the subshells shown in Figure 7. Bearing in mind the maximum number of electrons a sub-shell can hold (shown in Figure 6), the electrons in a fluorine atom will be arranged as follows: Two electrons will be in the lowest...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...write down some of your own thoughts about visualisation and what it means...Using visualisation in maths teaching: 3. What does visualisation mean? - ‘Imagery is a powerful force for perception and understanding. Being able to “see” something mentally is a common metaphor for understanding it. An image may be of some geometrical shape, or of a graph or diagram, or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list
History & The Arts

Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list

...writes, “whose works were selected to fill 33 volumes in The Library of Babel, a 1979 Spanish language anthology of fantastic literature edited by Borges, named after his earlier story by the same name.” Read at OpenCulture: Jorge Luis Borges Picks 33 of His Favorite Books to Start His Famous Library of Babel Borges' fictional Library of Babel was slightly different...
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Article 10 mins
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...writing, this suggests the government is rigidly holding on to particular ideological positions, at the expense of a more moderate and conciliatory approach. What would be a remedy against the effects of groupthink and in-group/outgroup differentiation? Diversity of group membership is a known remedy against in-groups polarisation. In the current context of a national...
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Article 10 mins
Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
History & The Arts

Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally

...writes “The Killing of Georgie” in tercets (three-verse lines), typically rhyming aab, a technique that puts a decisive emphasis on the opening couplet, and that quickens the overall pace of the lyric, as we (and Georgie) are hurried on after three lines rather than four: Pa said, “There must be a mistake; How can my son not be straight; After all I’ve said and...
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