CLIL Programming and Didactic Material Development

Chapter 1: Programming in CLIL

1.1. Learning Situations Definition

Learning situations (LS) are contexts that simulate the real world, making theoretical concepts practical and meaningful.

Objectives

Develop competencies appropriate to the educational stage, stimulate curiosity, and encourage critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Design

LS should be framed as challenges, questions, or proposals requiring direct student intervention. This approach ensures students remain active and see the learning

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Primary Visual Cortex, Neural Coding and Visual Processing

Primary Visual Cortex

Q1: Why is the primary visual cortex called the striate cortex?

Question: 1) Why is the primary visual cortex often called the “striate” cortex?

Answer: It is called the striate cortex because, under the microscope, layer IV contains a visible stripe (the line of Gennari) formed by dense bands of myelinated axons arriving from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). This distinct striation gives V1 its name and marks the major input layer that separates it from other cortical

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Facebook आणि WhatsApp: फायदे, मर्यादा व सुरक्षित वापर

प्रश्न: Facebook (Facebook)

Facebook हे जगातील सर्वात लोकप्रिय सोशल मीडिया प्लॅटफॉर्मपैकी एक आहे. संवाद, माहितीचे आदान-प्रदान आणि सामाजिक संबंध मजबूत करण्यासाठी याचा मोठ्या प्रमाणात उपयोग होतो.

Facebook चे महत्व

  1. संवाद

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Justice, Labour and Rural–Urban Social Issues in India

Lok Adalat (People’s Court)

Lok Adalat: A People’s Court

Lok Adalat, also known as the People’s Court, is a unique approach to delivering justice in India. It’s a platform where disputes are resolved through dialogue, negotiation, and mutual understanding.

Key Features

  • Informal setting: Lok Adalats are held in informal settings, like community centers or temples.
  • No lawyers: Parties often represent themselves without the need for lawyers.
  • Mediator-like judges: Judges act as mediators, facilitating negotiations
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Nepal Essays: National Unity, Tourism, Resources & Technology

B. Writing Essays

1. Essay on National Unity

National unity is the foundation of peace, progress, and stability in any nation. It is the feeling of togetherness, harmony, and mutual understanding among people belonging to different castes, religions, languages, and regions. In a country like Nepal, where people follow diverse traditions and lifestyles, national unity becomes even more important. Unity helps citizens work together for common goals, protects the nation’s identity, and strengthens social

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Java Exception Handling, Custom Exceptions & File I/O

Java Exception Handling and File I/O

Multiple Catch Statements

In Java, multiple catch statements allow a program to handle different types of exceptions separately. When we write a try block, it may throw different exceptions at runtime. To handle each specific exception, Java provides multiple catch blocks arranged one after another. Multiple catch statements mean writing more than one catch block after a single try block so that each block handles a different type of exception. This helps in writing

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Digital Media Strategies: Content, Ethics & Sustainability

Introduction to Digital Media

Digital media refers to any form of content that is created, shared, or consumed using digital technology. Examples and platforms include: Starbucks, ISB, Instagram, Facebook, IKEA, and Spotify.

Content Marketing

Content marketing involves creating and sharing online material (such as videos, blogs, and social media posts) that does not explicitly promote a brand but is intended to stimulate interest in its products and services. Because content marketing is all about

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Factotum Characters: Henry Chinaski, Jan, Laura & Key Figures

Characters

Henry Chinaski

  • Role: The narrator and chief character in Factotum. Henry Chinaski is a classic antihero.

  • He is green-eyed and the son of a workaholic World War I veteran who is critical of his son’s 4-F draft status during World War II for psychological reasons. Henry is addicted to alcohol and sex, and he has drunk his way through two years at Los Angeles City College while studying journalism.

  • He works when he must, flops in the cheapest places he can find, eats when he can, and drinks

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Key 20th-Century Avant-Garde Art Movements

Futurism

Futurism was founded by the Italian Marinetti, who published his first manifesto in Paris in 1909. It expressed a total rupture with the past, showing admiration for mechanical civilization and technical progress: machines, speed, and great inventions like the train and the airplane. A consequence of this was the disregard for human subjects and fundamentals. To achieve the ideal of “free words,” the text does not use punctuation, and adjectives are deleted.

Cubism

Cubism: was created

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Machine Learning Concepts: Supervised, Unsupervised & Models

Unit 4: Machine Learning

1. Supervised Learning

Supervised learning is a machine learning approach in which the model is trained using labeled data. Each training example has an input and a corresponding correct output. The goal of the model is to learn a relationship or mapping between input features and the target output, so that it can predict outcomes for new unseen data.

Important Points

  • Involves classification (output is a category) and regression (output is a number).
  • The learning process is guided
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