This week has a Northern Ireland theme, inspired by this statue of the famous giant Finn MacCool, of Giant’s Causeway fame at Belfast Airport. 1. What if giants were real?– What advantages would they have over average-sized people? – What disadvantages? – How would society be different to how it is? – How should society be different to […]
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This week, an issue from the “back catalogue” featuring probably the most interesting idea from the Harry Potter books, “The Mirror of Erised” which shows “not your reflection but your deepest desires”. The attached PDF has a session plan that includes an engaging warm-up activity, and also a “match report” on how it played out
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The theme of this week’s online classes has been The Philosophy of Secrets. It’s been one of those sessions that just flies straight out of the box. There’s a brief PPT of the three stimuli to help with it here. We’ve started by collecting any light-hearted examples of secrets that people have confided, kept or blabbed in
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