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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...et al, 2002). Moderators’ efforts to be even-handed in dealing with problematic posting in the teacher-student forum ended in them becoming complicit with the covert racism. We can all be influenced by the messages society constructs around us, which are negative towards groups other than white, unless we make sure we have critical overview of our actions. It’s from...
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...death. Boulanger became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata Faust et Hélène. Despite her brief career, Lilian Boulanger also composed dozens of compositions, including piano works, songs, and several large-scale works for choir and orchestra....
Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...doubling the demand for energy probably in the first half of the century and at the same time, we have to seriously tackle CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, and that is a bit of a paradox, but it is something that we can do. RH: You said that CO2 was in the minds of many linked to climate change, Shell does accept the IPCC findings, I think, doesn’t it? BVB: Yes...
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...et al., 2019) In other words, less emphasis has been given on assessing available evidence when decisions about teaching and learning are made, such as whether and how digital technologies should be used by children to support learning. For example, in the above paper, one of the teaching approaches reviewed for evidence is ‘learning with robots’. The authors...
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...et al., 2013). However, others argue that it can be very helpful to be self-aware about the approaches you are taking to learning, and to try out new approaches to learning more effectively...Developing your skills as an HR professional: 2 Using reflection to improve performance - The ability to reflect on actions, and how effective they were, is expected of managers and,...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...et al., 2014, p. 153) Figure 1 An example of innovation in policing The imperative for innovation in a policing context has been broadly recognised and is highlighted in the National Police Chief Council’s Policing Vision 2025 policy document. One author makes the point, however, that understanding and defining innovation in policing can at times be less than...
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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...et cetera, et cetera. So it's either- some people see it as a good thing. It's different from what the West has done for 200 years in Africa. Some people will say, well, it's just the same as you know, Just because they're Chinese doesn't mean they're any different from what the West has done. So it's a kind of polarised position, and what we want to do with our own...
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...doubled down' on its (incorrect) hallucination. Alignment Most LLMs are designed to be as 'helpful' as possible with respect to user queries and to always make an attempt to assist with a user's prompt, unless it is for malicious, harmful or illegal purposes. Whilst this is a useful design functionality of most LLMs, at times this priority emphasis on assisting a user can...