It turns out that saving all of your studying until after midnight on the night before your big exam is not actually a great way to prepare. Today, Thomas explains some test prep strategies that actually work.

How can the magic of live theater, live music, live dance compete with the always-on Internet? Ben Cameron offers a bold look forward to a world where live arts matter more than ever -- to link humans together at a primal level of shared...

Imagine trying to use words to describe every scene in a film, every note in a song, or every street in your town. Now imagine trying to do it using only the numbers 1 and 0. Every time you use the Internet to watch a movie, listen to...

New ReviewAgile methods focus on small increments, iterative refinement, and adapting to circumstances. But what exactly do iterative, incremental, and adaptive mean?

New ReviewMaster strategic thinking: How to Think Strategically in 10 minutes – for Project Professionals. Strategic Thinking is the #1 skill for advanced Project Managers, and this video is your playbook.

Twice in the last few weeks I was all riled up and feeling the need to blast out posts on how everyone needed to stop freaking out and pay attention to real risks and not the scream du jour. But before I could even get to it, there was...

As the vaccine to protect against Covid-19 continues to roll out to more and more people, interest in side effects is high. This can lead to lots of media coverage when people experience side effects, particularly when serious side...

The COGNITIVE INTERVIEW was created by Geiselman and Fisher in a bid to improve the quality of eye witness testimony. The Cognitive Interview has four distinct retrieval techniques at its core:

1) Re-establishing the...

When it comes to communication, cultures can be high-context or low-context—and this is one of the key ways that cultures differ. In low-context cultures, people tend to be explicit and direct in their communications. In high-context...

The Japanese aren’t usually avid joke tellers, but put them in a group, and they’ll sometimes do humorous imitations of friends and colleagues. Such imitations aren’t considered rude; indeed, they’re often performed in front of the...

This video explores using context clues in war poems.

In this video, we learn how to better understand a piece of literary nonfiction by examining the author's viewpoint, the historical and cultural context, and our own perspective as readers. By analyzing the author's main ideas and tone,...

A video entitled "Slope: Real World" that covers examples of real-world situations that can be modeled using slope.

How long do you typically look at an artwork, and what can you learn in that time? In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we’ll acquire a toolbox of terms to help us discover how all art is influenced by the time and place it was...

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Ted Cruz and Mark Zuckerberg engage in heated exchangeSource: Reuters

Pupil outcome: I can explain what happens in Act 1, Scenes 5 to 7 of ‘Macbeth’ and begin to evaluate the character of Lady Macbeth. Key learning points: - Topic sentences need to be clear and linked to the question - Judicious quotations...

Pupil outcome: I can write a well-structured and convincing analytical essay about how far Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a Machiavellian villain. Key learning points: - An introduction can start with a general statement about the...