INFO2009 2012-13 Resource Group 23

FutureTech - Discover the Tech Behind Your Future!

INFO2009 2012-13 Resource Group 24

A short video explaining how the next generation of the internet will differ from the web as we currently know it and how these changes will affect a user. The possible problems with the transition are also covered.

INFO2009 2012-13 Resource Group 25 video, website future awareness

Web 3.0 - Future Technology Awareness By Team "Time Management": Alejandro Saucedo - Video & Flyer Stephen Griffith - Website James Crickmere - Research Jack Kanani - Dictionary In this era you cannot afford being tech-illiterate as it is literally everywhere! This is why we did thorough research on the future of technology - Web 3.0! You can find all our resources at http://web3.hackasoton.com

INFO2009 2012-13 Resource Group 27 & 31: The public awareness of science

Resources for coursework 2 of INFO 2009. A video made to promote the public awareness of science as a topic. It goes through interesting facts and explains what you can do to make a difference. A flyer made to advertise the video, explaining what it is and how it can be used.

INFO2009 2012-13 Resource Group 28 Animation on Green IT

Animation on Green IT Container EdShare to be used to assemble resources developed by team for coursework 2. The metadata will be updated by the group, and description modified when the resource set has been completed. The resource has been set up with an instructional readme file. This will be replaced by each group with a new readme file. Each group needs to update this description. Further instructions in readme.txt

INFO2009 2012-13 Resource Group 29 & 30

"Britain's Next Top Business Model" Quiz Show. The animation gives an example of what questions might be asked for teaching, learning, education and/or assessment in a quiz show environment. The full set of appropriate questions is available in a separate document.

Collection INFO2009 Resource Group Work 2012-13

Collection of student produced resources for INFO2009

Sustaining Success Week 4 Task: Student Resource Recommendation

Description of student resource recommendation task which you can choose to submit

The politics of resource booms

This paper develops a simple model to investigate how resource-driven economic booms shape the equilibrium political institutions of resource-rich societies and influence the likelihood of experiencing civil war. In our model a strong government apparatus favors property rights protection but also makes the state more powerful and hence may induce predatory autocratic regimes over democracy. We characterize the parameter space of each political outcome in terms of the type of the available natural resources. Economic booms based on resources that are privately exploited empower the citizens and tend to ease democratic transitions. In contrast, booms based on resources exploited by the state tend to favor more dictatorial regimes. Finally, economic booms based on resources that can be exploited either by the state or by private citizens incite preemptive actions by both parties that may result in civil war. We discuss the predictions of the model using historical and contemporary examples.

Natural resource windfalls and efficiency of local government expenditures: evidence from Peru

We study the role of natural resource windfalls in explaining the efficiency of public expenditures. Using a rich dataset of expenditures and public good provision for 1,836 municipalities in Peru for period 2001-2010, we estimate a non-monotonic relationship between the efficiency of public good provision and the level of natural resource transfers. Local governments that were extremely favored by the boom of mineral prices were more efficient in using fiscal windfalls whereas those benefited with modest transfers were more inefficient. These results can be explained by the increase in political competition associated with the boom. However, the fact that increases in efficiency were related to reductions in public good provision casts doubts about the beneficial effects of political competition in promoting efficiency.

Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation

How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodity boom across local governments in Peru to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation. We explore the effect of both mining production and tax revenues on test scores, finding a substantial and statistically significant effect for the latter. Transfers to local governments from mining tax revenues are linked to an increase in math test scores of around 0.23 standard deviations. We find that the hiring of permanent teachers as well as the increases in parental employment and improvements in health outcomes of adults and children are plausible mechanisms for such large effect on learning. These findings suggest that redistributive policies could facilitate the accumulation of human capital in resource abundant developing countries as a way to avoid the natural resources curse.

Oxford primary history. Teacher's resource book.

Forma parte de una serie de textos dirigidos a alumnos del nivel key Stage 1, que ayuda al profesor a cumplir con los requisitos del National Currículo y que está formada, además, por libros de historia para los niños. Es un recurso importante para los docentes pues sugiere formas para ayudar a los niños a entender diferentes tipos de fuentes históricas.

Geography matters 1. Teacher's resource pack.

Para organizar el trabajo de aula y ayudar a los alumnos de la etapa tres a investigar temas y cuestiones de forma independiente para obtener el máximo rendimiento. La cobertura se establece en diferentes niveles, Fundación y Superior, para que dé apoyo material al nivel adecuado y al ritmo de los alumnos. Las actividades específicas de lectura, escritura, aritmética, destrezas de pensamiento y las TIC se han integrado tanto en el libro del alumno como en los materiales de apoyo y garantizan que se cubran los requisitos esenciales. Hay hojas fotocopiables y notas para el profesor para cada capítulo. Otros recursos fotocopiables incluye esquemas, mapas, análisis de datos para construir la comprensión de los alumnos.

Britain, 1750-1900. Teachers' resource book.

En esta separata se ha realizado el rediseño la reestructuración y racionalización de las unidades didácticas para obtener una orientación más detallada sobre las estrategias de enseñanza, orientación y, paso a paso, sobre cómo utilizar las actividades del libro de los alumnos. Las hojas de trabajo del profesorado se han diseñado y seleccionado para ofrecer una mayor habilidad para las tareas básicas del texto del alumno.