Education & Development
What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
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Digital & Computing
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
...codes of behaviour, as well as structural racisms and subjectivity. Moreover, we don’t all arrive at this sphere as equals class and costshape digital participation. It is these institutionalised biases that we pick up and expand for analysis. Feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser critiques the white middle-class boundaries of Habermas’ definition. She describes second...
Money & Business
Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
...Hammond as he plans this autumn’s Budget. If the deadline for restoring budget balance – already postponed beyond 2022 – fades further from the headlines, then it may well be because the crowded debt issuance calendar has started to resemble the magic money tree’s genetic code. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Society, Politics & Law
Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
...economists’ code for the higher pay which voters – and the Chancellor’s party – expect to gain when Brexit uncertainty settles. If that promise secures the government’s re-election by 2020, Ed Balls could well claim to be the ghostwriter denied a royalty. [The Conversation]This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Education & Development
Child spirituality
...code, or practices connected with food or dress or festivals. Much of this practice will be positive for a child, giving meaning to births, coming of age, marriages or deaths in the family. Many people turn to religious beliefs and rituals to help them through times of stress or to celebrate a transition. Children who belong to faith communities need to have such...
Nature & Environment
Watching the weather
...simple pictogram is often used to describe the cloud cover...Watching the weather: 1.2 Weather observations - There is a lot more to taking useful meteorological data than simply reading a handy thermometer. For a start, the measurement instruments must be 'calibrated' and they should be used in specified ways. Calibration is performed to try to ensure that each...
Science, Maths & Technology
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
...simple conclusions from it. Moving around the course The easiest way to navigate around the course is through the ‘My course progress’ page. You can get back there at any time by clicking on ‘Back to course’ in the menu bar. It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within a course page (including links to the quizzes), to open it in a new window or...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Mastering systems thinking in practice
...simple definitions for either systems thinking or systems practice. It’s difficult to find definitions that capture all the perspectives that the ideas carry for people who think of themselves as systems thinkers and systems practitioners. Most systems practitioners seem to experience the same kind of difficulty in explaining what they do or what it means to be systemic...