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What's in a word
Four offices, four numbers, one word. Before you can count anything, you have to agree what it is.
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Older than the systems: why the concepts outlive every system
Schools have left evidence of learning for almost four thousand years, and for more than a thousand, credentials have had the same parts: someone trusted makes a claim about someone, in a way others can check. Today that idea lives in five systems, each with its own model of it, and the film shows how a conceptual and a logical model hold them together.
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Watch the film
Press Play, or pick a chapter. Turn on Pause and think to stop for one question at the end of chapters.
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Where next?
You've seen why the concepts outlive the systems. Now try it yourself.
Think it through
The four Pause and think questions, for a class or a team. Open one to see the answer.
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Built to write, built to read
One set of facts, two shapes: one built to write each award, one built to read ten years of them.