24 May The School of Life
One for the intellects and deep thinkers who want to learn about philosophy, psychology, relationships, self-improvement, and societal issues....
C1 – Advanced
24 May Tifo Football
Unsurprisingly, The Tifo Football YouTube channel by The Athletic primarily focuses on videos related to football. However, instead of just having video clips of Neymar rolling on the floor like many other football channels, it provides in-depth analysis and covers a wide range of topics...
22 May The Economist
Posted at 18:22h
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The Economist YouTube channel, as you might expect, focuses on videos that cover global economic issues as well as trending political and social events. We like this channel because it provides some ¨meaty¨ topics for us to explore....
22 May VOX
Posted at 10:28h
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One of our absolute favourites! The VOX YouTube channel covers a wide range of topics including politics, current events, culture, science, technology, and history. Their videos often feature in-depth explanations, analysis, and storytelling, utilising visually engaging graphics and animations....
29 Abr Why everything you buy is worse now
Posted at 18:10h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Non Guided, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Psychology, Science, Vox
The video titled explores the idea that products are of a lower quality now than they were 10 years ago. It examines the design process and how the emphasis on manufacturability and appearance has led to a decrease in functionality. The video also discusses planned...
29 Mar In Praise of Bias
Posted at 11:55h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Non Guided, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Psychology, Science, The School of Life
This (rather highbrow!) video argues that bias is not inherently negative and that the pursuit of complete objectivity and factual accuracy is often misguided. While facts are important in certain areas of life, many of the big questions that humans face have no definitive answers....
15 Oct Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement
Posted at 06:56h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Complete Lesson Plan, Economics, Management, Non Guided, Problem Solving, Science
This is lesson is for the smart cookies and touches upon the cognitive thought process and critical thinking so is more ‘businessy’ in nature. It focuses on “Noise”, Daniel Kahneman’s follow-up to “Thinking Fast and Slow”. If that means nothing to you, have a quick...
29 Sep This is why we can`t have nice things
Posted at 10:54h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Environment, Funny, Management, North America, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology, Veritasium
An investigation into objects such as light bulbs, printers and phones and how the same products made today are not necessarily better...
29 Sep Think you have a «Type A» personality? Sorry, that`s fake news!
Posted at 10:30h
in Australia, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Braincraft, C1 - Advanced, Environment, Funny, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science
Have you ever been classed as Type A or Type B personality? How did you react? This video discusses the side effects of labelling and where they actually originate from....
29 Sep TECH MONOPOLIES – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Posted at 09:51h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Last Night Tonight, Management, Politics, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Technology
John Oliver discusses how our experiences on the Internet are dominated by companies who create products that we can't live without, meanwhile suppressing their competition completely. This `Anti- Competitive` behaviour not only controls what we as customers see online but puts us unwillingly into a...