Student Reading Group – Recruiting Now!

 

Students can already share their opinions and favourite/most hated reads in the Blog Off and Read! group on Moodle.

BUT

Would you like to meet up with other like-minded students on a regular basis to chat about the ‘read of the week’ and share ideas face to face?

Is that a YES!?!

Well then, you’ll need to contact our Senior Information officer Pat Hebron and she’ll do the rest.

Send an email to p.hebron@llandrillo.ac.uk with your -

Name

ID Number

Course

Preferred Contact Email

Times of the week that would suit you best

UC Berkley webcasts – Video & Podcasts

Berkley university have kindly made available a host of webcasts that cover a number of subject areas that include psychology, biology, computer science and engineering.

Social Networking can harm Children’s Brains

Well that was the message in the media at the end of February. Apparently using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are rewiring our children’s brains, and i thought it was part of the process of becoming a teenager.

Oxford University Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield believes repeated exposure to these sites, and computer games,  will rewire the brain and will effectively infantise the brain because of the supposed limited attention span required to engage with them. She also makes some more claims about the lack of face to face conversation.

And this week another study carried out by Taiwanese researchers on 692 university students, suggests that blogging can have a beneficial effect on them. They found that those that used blogs to share information about feelings, emotions and experiences also reported a greater sense of social belonging and well-being.

learnpsychology.net

learnpsychology.net

 

knowledge is power

This web page, hosted by a collective of psychology-related information sites, provides an arena for A-level psychologists in particular to further their knowledge of basic theoretical and research-related concepts in psychology. The site includes a glossary, a book store, links to news feeds, and individual articles on topics such as Asperger’s syndrome. This site should be useful for teachers and A-Level Psychology students.

Source: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20081011-12393147

Learnpsychology.net also has a link to psyblog.co.uk, an extensive psychology blog covering A2 and AS topics where you can take part in numerous forums on many psychology topics. Also available are links to OCR textbooks and teacher support material.

Open University Blogs

     

The Open University’s Open2.net blog portal is a wealth of information and news on a huge range of subjects. Posts are topical, current and written by OU lecturing/teaching staff.

There are also links back to BBC OU programmes (some are even hosted on the BBC iPlayer if you missed them), with upcoming show lists and some free learning resources available.

New Intute Guides Online

Eight new Intute Subject Booklets have been published this month, each providing a “taster” of the Internet resources that can be found by using Intute. They can be downloaded directly from the site or viewed as a PDF.

The new subject include:

Environmental Science
Materials Engineering
Film and Theatre
Philosophy
Education
Olympic Studies
Biological Sciences
Pregnancy and Childbirth

Over 24 booklets have been published by Intute in recent years, and you are welcome to copy, re-purpose and distribute the printed or electronic versions for non-profit, educational use with suitable attribution, as the work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

 

Young Lives

Modern inner city life is the dramatic setting for both of these fictional novels, but the stories could have come straight from the headlines we see every day ….

 

Based on the hit film by the same name, this book follows a group of teenagers and describes their everyday lives.  The reason they have been allowed off school exposes the true and terrifying effects of bullying and gang culture. This is a book about choices and what influences people to make decisions for the best or for the worst……..

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The main character in this book witnesses his teachers’ murder by two pupils in his school. Jackson can’t talk to a counsellor but is filled with a need to understand why this happened and begins his own investigation. The more he finds out about the boys who did it, the more he comes to understand the reasons why this terrible crime happened….

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There are many organizations in the UK that understand young people and try to help them break away from a life of crime and give them a voice. A few starting points would be - Da Vision , Citizenship Foundation , GameOver , NCH , UK Youth Parliment .

Psychology

The Professionals: British Psychological Society, Psychological testing Centre, Experimental Psychology Society, Open University Psychological Society, SEMPRE, Humanistics Psychology Practitioners, Child & Adolescent Mental Health, Personal Construct Psychology, Educational Psychologists, Int. Assoc Applied Psychology, MIND, BIRT

Psychology News: BPS, Psychology Matters

Psychology Blogs 

Find a Counseller:  Counselling Directory, Patient UK

Glossary

Magazines: British Journal of Psychology and British Journal of Medical Psychology are available full text through ATHENS via the Ingenta Connect. The Psychology Review, Psychology Today and Current Psychology (along with many more) are available full text via Infotrac.  Apply for your ATHENS password in the library.

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