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  Join Pearson’s “6 STEPS to Exam Success” Online Training Program (February-April 2019) 250

  • Educatie
  • 09-02-2019 10:30

  This training program aims to support teachers and their students with a holistic approach to exam preparation. Cambridge exam experts, consultants, authors, trainers and experienced teachers will provide a holistic view on successful exam preparation, taking us through the basics and all the way to final exam success.   Here are the speakers and the agenda. You […]

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  [GenZ-er Lessons] Foods of Tomorrow... 224

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  • 22-04-2018 11:23

  Nati is my teenage student, a GenZ-er born during the 21st-century technology revolution. Although the internet, cellular technology, social media, and You Tube are the staples of any GenZ-er’s world, Nati still believes in the power of books and would not trade a book for its brief 3-minute summary video. She loves tongue twisters in English, as well […]

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  11 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Airplanes 233

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  • 04-06-2017 10:44

  Planes have changed a lot since the days of the Wright Brothers (or, perhaps more accurately, Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos). Those first wood-and-cloth contraptions are an entirely different species than the sleek Boeing Dreamliners of today. With the continual advancements in aerospace technology, it’s hard to keep up with all the amazing things planes today […]

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  New NPR Podcast for Curious Kids and their Grown-Ups 245

  • Educatie
  • 10-05-2017 08:00

  This week NPR unveiled their new children’s podcast, Wow in the World. Hosted by Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas, this show is for curious kids and their grown-ups! Check out the trailer and subscribe at http://n.pr/2pcPbQN. This is the first time in NPR’s 47-year history that it will release a children’s program. Starting May 15, NPR’s […]

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  Brain expert Laurence Steinberg: Routine and boredom are anathema to plasticity 492

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  • 08-04-2017 21:18

  Teenagers are now back at school: back, we might imagine, to cramming their brains full of useful learning and life skills. Job well done? Not nearly, says Laurence Steinberg, a world-leading expert in adolescent brains. He insists there’s much more that schools – and parents – should be doing to help young people build the […]

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  Why Technology Has Not Killed the Period. Period.... 232

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  • 25-09-2016 19:08

  A new study finds that the period serves important functions in the very text messages that are supposed to spell its demise There are punctuation symbols that have largely gone the way of the dodo. But while National Punctuation Day, Sept. 24, may be an occasion to pour one out for the pilcrow, that’s not […]

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  What Could You Do with a One-Minute Story?... 263

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  • 06-08-2016 17:05

  Emily Casriel, Head of Editorial Partnerships and special projects for BBC World Service Group, gives a detailed account of her project Take 10 animation in a blog post published a month ago.   This project involves MA student animators from the Animation Department at the University of the West of England (UWE), who were given a great challenge: to animate […]

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  Recommended Brain Workout: Flex Your Multilingual “Muscles” 249

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  • 03-08-2016 13:49

  0:06 ¿Hablas español? Parlez-vous français? 你会说中文吗？ 0:12 If you answered, “sí,” “oui,” or “会” and you’re watching this in English, 0:18 chances are you belong to the world’s bilingual and multilingual majority. 0:23 And besides having an easier time traveling 0:25 or watching movies without subtitles, 0:27 knowing two or more languages means that your […]

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  What Will Future Jobs Look Like?... 236

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  • 08-04-2016 08:00

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  Translators Recommend: 7 Tips to Learn a New Language 271

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  • 07-02-2016 11:00

  Knowing more than one language is great for your brain. But what’s the best way to learn? TED’s Open Translation Project volunteers share 7 tips: Get real. Decide on a simple, attainable goal to start with so that you don’t feel overwhelmed. German translator Judith Matz suggests: “Pick up 50 words of a language and start using them on people […]

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