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Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...English. Consider these examples, where children were asked to translate text abbreviations into standard written English: 4got 2 call k8 2nite bcs i woz studyin, i h8 xamz LO! How R u? I havnt cn U 4 ages hi m8 u k?-sry i 4gt 2 call u lst nyt-y dnt we go c film 2moz. hav U dn yor h/w? Im goin out w my bro & my best frNd tomorrow Do U wnt 2 cum along? (From Plester et...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...English parliamentary historian Thomas Macaulay graphically described its effects: Smallpox was always present, filling the churchyard with corpses, tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...English Dictionary): describe: to set forth in words by reference to characteristics … to represent, picture, portray reflect: to turn one’s thoughts (back) on … to ponder, meditate on. Thus, description answers straightforward factual questions, such as: What is it? What happens? Where and when does it happen? How big is it? Who is involved? As an example, here is...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...English Premier League football and American soaps. Taken together, these forces both unite and divide people in my home town in the English Midlands and the people of Trabzon. They make the world in some senses smaller and more similar, but in others less predictable – more unruly. Although they also bring more wealth to some people in Eastern Turkey, you didn't have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...English-speaking world, but to see him go out with this amazing, crusading fight on climate change has been quite tonic for me. RH: Before we just finish the politics bit, what hopes do you have of a global agreement on climate change in Paris? And do you think that our focus on those big global agreements is helpful, or do you think there are other factors at play now?...
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Audio 5 mins
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...English is (relatively!) more understandable. I found a stone, (but) did not weigh it; (after) I subtracted one-seventh, added one-eleventh, (and) subtracted one-thir[teenth], I weighed (it): 1 ma-na. What was the origin(al weight) of the stone? [The origin(al weight)] of the stone was 1 ma-na, 9½ gin, (and) 2½ se. This tablet contained 22 such problems-and-answers,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...English schools have been responsible for promoting ‘community cohesion’, which should be seen as a common vision and sense of belonging; a society in which the diversity of people’s backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and valued. In other cases, try to balance issues so that students can form their own opinions. However, if discussing a subject such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...English. (NHS Digital, 2019, p. 11) To address this, NHS Digital published a guide to assist commissioning groups and NHS managers to develop initiatives to enable people who may currently be or feel excluded to become ‘digital citizens’ and to access health care. This is the focus of the next activity. Activity 1 Digital Ambassadors: creating digital citizens First,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs