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Not a hugely inspiring piece of ICT but this data poster has come from New Scientist via Digg. It’s worth a moment of your time.
Things that struck me were the growth in deaths from HIV/AIDS and the relationship between arms spending and number of conflicts among other things.
Thought it might make a nice bit of work in Humanities – ask the group the question at the top of the page to generate a bit of discussion and then give them the data and have a debate to decide whether it’s true or not.
It could be the starting point for a range of ICT activities. e.g. the students creating media resources to back up their conclusions or maybe using your VLE to host an online discussion out of class time.
In the meantime check out their article on “13 more things that don’t make sense“.
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2 Comments until now
This is not the first time disease and starvation has hit the earth. As far as, getting better or worse? Its always worse and better, because its a relative perspective of reality. Therefore, neither, because we cannot truly evaluate something that is relative.
Thanks for the comment, Patrick.
That’s exactly the sort of point that I was hoping the students would debate. It’s an interesting starting point as it doesn’t neatly fit into any curriculum category. The numbers on the chart say science, humanities, maths etc – but your point is more about philosophy.
Chris
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