The RSA Animate series of video clips is an interesting way to present some very sophisticated ideas to learners. The visual nature of the lectures helps comprehension and helps hold student interest. The lecture above looks at how recent developments in cognitive science change our understanding of human nature. Other lectures deal with concepts like charity, choice, and education, just to name a few. In addition to the various content areas that these lectures could be used in, they would be a great addition to activities working on lecture listening and note taking.
"In the 6 communities that these measures have already been operational school attendances and registrations have decreased. Suicides and self harm have increased by 50% and incarceration by 30%. Surely this is evidence enough that these measure aren’t working. Yet they’re continuing and expanding into a further 17 communities. "
"For the past 30 years the Simon Wiesenthal Center has played an important role in the efforts to help prosecute Nazi war criminals.
Now its chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff, tells the behind-the-scenes story of how Holocaust perpetrators were tracked down, exposed and brought to justice-the trials and the tribulations, the successes and the failures-of the past three decades in his new book published by Macmillan on November 10, 2009.
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