Albert Einstein: First Love
In 1896, Albert Einstein arrived at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School. In this video clip, learn how there he discovered the two things that will become major aspects of his life; intellectual freedom and women. (3:09)
Learning to learn: Reflecting backward, reflecting forward
This free course, Learning to learn: Reflecting backward, reflecting forward, gives you an opportunity to review what you have learned, and allow you to think about how you will take forward what you have learned, perhaps building and developing an Action Plan in order to support other aspects of change.
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Introduction This unit examines David Hume's reasons for being complacent in the face of death, as these are laid out in his suppressed essay of 1755, ‘Of the immortality of the soul’. More generally, they examine some of the shifts in attitude concerning death and religious belief that were taking place in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, through examination of this and other short essays. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University courseAuthor(s):
3.1 Social work values and legal values Social work practice is founded on and informed by a value base; however, this value base is uncertain and changing (Shardlow, 1998). It is important that practitioners are able to reflect on their values and prejudices and consider the implications of these for practice. The next activity requires you to think about this before going on to look in more detail at what is meant by social work values. 3 Language, mathematics and science in context In the opening part of this course we argued that, as human beings, we are constantly engaging with the world through mechanisms called ‘ways of knowing’, and that three important ways of knowing are language, mathematics and science. Although it may be easy to see what makes language, mathematics and science different from each other, in real-life contexts they are rarely used in isolation. We tried to show this by using shopping as an example of an everyday activity that can involve all 2.8 Making the framework your own If there was a simple way to improve our own learning, we would all be geniuses by now. What this key skills approach tries to show is that learning is a complex process that draws on many skills and can be made more effective by becoming aware of what you are doing, how you are doing it and how well you are doing it. Once you are aware of what's going on, you can start to change things to suit your own learning style and the demands of the task or assignment you have to tackle. The nex 6.2 Citizenship at work Employment is an issue of growing relevance to the lives of young people. In addition to their contact with the world of work through work experience, work-related learning and Citizenship, many young people also combine part-time work with their studies…. Young people need to know about the importance of health and safety at work, how to tackle discrimination and how to exercise their rights. They also need to underst Your School Bus Doesn't Look Like This! :-) 6.3.2 Identify the outcomes you hope to achieve An outcome is the result or consequence of a process. For example, you may want to select information from a number of sources for a report, and to do this you may need to improve your use of information search facilities and your critical skills in comparing and contrasting information. In this case your report is an outcome and using and improving your information literacy skills is part of the process by which you achieve that outcome. A more focused outcome might be related to recog Beyond Clicks: Getting the Most out of Big Data Conversations Among Writing Peers 7.2 What people do with the money? Diane and John didn't get any money. Enid saved her ‘lads’ money for them, and bought them clothes and other things from what she saved. She spent her ICA on herself, though it didn't sound as if she treated herself to many luxuries. Sarah's payments went towards the allowances for her volunteer helpers at university. They helped her with making meals, mobility around the campus and getting into town. Sometimes she needed help with personal care, such as washing her hair. 9.6.1 Monitor and critically reflect on your skills As you work on the group task, you need to make time to reflect on how you are working with others. Try to identify factors that influence your ability to work effectively with others, such as levels of self-confidence, communication skills, gender, culture and the distribution of power and influence between those involved. Try to assess the effectiveness of the choices you have made – for example timescales and resources allocated, methods selected – in working towards the goals and your Keynote | Windows Phone Summit Watch the on-demand video of our June 20 press event in San Francisco outlining the past and future of Windows Phone. Using Speech Search to speed editing 7.2 Drafting reports As you may remember from Activity 3, the three general principles of a report (whether it is of a social sciences investigation or a scientific experiment) are: Why was it done? How was it done? What does it mean? You will need to make some decisions, not only about wha 2.3 Horizontal communication In the OSI reference model there is a clear separation of services and protocols, but this separation is not always evident in practical applications, so it is worthwhile spending some more time on the differences between them. A service is provided by one layer to the layer above, and the capabilities of a service are defined in terms of primitives and their parameters. A service relates to two adjacent layers in the same system. In contrast, a protocol defines the communication between two 3.8.2 Analysing and answering essay-based exam questions For the following activity, you can use questions from a specimen paper, past papers or even questions you have devised for yourself. Exam questions for essay-based courses often contain 'process words'. T 6.2 Objects To represent a thing such as an account or a payment from an object perspective, the software developers need to say how it can be used. An account is something that can be credited or debited with amounts of money and that remembers the total balance between operations. As users of an account, we do not care whether the balance is represented by electrons or by numbers on a slate, or whether the numbers are represented in binary or decimal. As long as we can withdraw money at some time after Virtual Maths - 2D Shapes, triangle
Mira and Jeremy Thompson's school bus tiny house tour. (09:36)
Recent Wharton research aims to help companies navigate the complicated waters of Big Data by offering a better way to use predictive analytics.
One way to provide an authentic audience for young writers is to have
them share their work with each other. This program shows how teachers help students respond to their peers by modeling appropriate behavior and teaching protocols for student responses.
Transcribe spoken words to text. Use Speech Search to find precise locations in clips and make editing clips of speaking talent quicker.
Activity 9
Interactive simulation demonstrating calculation of area of a triangle
