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The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...education or training related projects, those linked with arts or sport, and, importantly, the street. You might be aware of organisations that work with people of all ages but wish to acknowledge the particular contribution of young people. Alternatively, you may have experience of spending time with young people in a residential setting – with looked after children, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...technology and deforestation. Together that is the big new result of AR5. RH: Any other big advances we've made? TS: I think we now have a much better grasp of regional climate change, changes in precipitation, changes in extremely event statistics, although we appreciate that the uncertainties there are still considerably high and that the future development of research...
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Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...Technological Education, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 79–96 [Online]. Available at dx.doi.org/10.1080/02635140120046240 (Accessed 16 May 2016). Vosniadou, S., Ioannides, C., Dimitrakopoulou A. and Papademetriou, E. (2001) ‘Designing learning environments to promote conceptual change in science,’ Learning and Instruction, vol. 11, no. 4-5, pp. 381–419. Watts, D. (1998)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...technology can power smart sports clothing, so that your jogging suit or cycling shorts could carry a global positioning system (GPS) unit and a fitness monitor powered by your movements as you pedal or run. You could monitor and analyse your workout before you hit the shower. Australian Football League players already optimise their playing performance using GPS trackers...
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Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?
Nature & Environment

Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?

...technology has improved...[Honey bee (Apis melifera)] An exciting attempt to help honey bees has come about thanks to an unlikely intellectual marriage. One of us is an ecologist who wants to keep an eye on individual bees over their entire two to three-mile range and monitor their behaviour. The other is an expert in micro-electronics. Together, we want to develop...
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Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...technology story. Researchers have identified a security flaw in the computer processors made by three of the world’s biggest chip designers, Intel, AMD and ARM, and a second flaw in Intel chips. This means that almost every smartphone, tablet, laptop and business computer in the world could be vulnerable to having sensitive data including passwords stolen. The cloud...
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Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...technology-43788338 https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-106A https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/04/critical-infrastructure-at-risk.html The second story involves a Chinese state-owned telecoms manufacturer called ZTE. The National Cyber Security Centre has written to UK telecom operators warning them that using ZTE devices and software could risk national...
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Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing
Science, Maths & Technology

Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing

...technologies that allow scientists to alter the DNA of organisms or cells. These techniques aim at inserting, removing, replacing or modifying specific fragments of DNA. Being able to “rewrite” DNA enables scientists to examine the consequences of these changes. For example, scientists might want to learn the effect of removing a specific gene, or want to investigate...
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