Kahoot

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in classrooms and other learning institutions. 

The company was launched in August 2013 in Norway. Its learning games, "kahoots", are multiple-choice quizzes that allow user generation and can be accessed via web browser.

The Enlightenment
Regency England
The Scientific Revolution
Kings and Queens of England

The Enlightenment

Patriarchal Society

What is a Patriarchal System?

A patriarchal social system can be defined as a system where men are in authority over women in all aspects of society. In the past, men were often the established gender of authority and exhibited control in all situations.

The etymology of the word patriarchy allows us to understand the meaning of the term. The term patriarchy comes from the Latin words pater, which means “father”, and archein, “to rule”. Also, patriarchy derives from the Greek terms patriarches (“chief or head of family”) and patria (“family, clan”) Therefore, it refers to male political power within society and the father’s authority within his family.

Malpas and Wake (2006) claim that:

Patriarchy is a term used – especially but not exclusively in feminist theory – to analyse male dominance as a conventional or institutionalized form. Literally the ‘rule of the father’, patriarchy historically describes systems in which the male has absolute legal and economic control over the family. The patriarch is the male head of a tribe, religion or church hierarchy. (...)

Patriarchy was stablished as a system, defeating the ‘mother right’ and controlling women’s sexuality in order to establish paternity and protect private property. (Malpas and Wake, 2006: 237)

Characteristics of a Patriarchal System 

(male dominance, male centeredness, obsession with control, male identification)

Firslty, a patriarchal society is male dominated, which does not mean that all women are powerless, but the most powerful roles in most sectors of society are held by men,whereas the least powerful roles are held by women. 

Secondly, it is organized with men at the center, while women occupy the margins. This is so because of the assumption that women need men's supervision, protection, or control because they are fragile or vulnerable. 

This takes us to the thrid characteristic, which is the obsession with control. Men living in a patriarchal system or society must be in control at all times. They have a desire to control all social and family situations and must make all decisions regarding finances and education.

Finally, it is important to mention those aspects of society and personal attributes that are highly valued and which are generally associated with men, while devalued attributes and social activities are associated with women. Men are concerned with identification that includes qualities of control, strength, forcefulness, rationality, strong work ethic, and competitiveness.

Reference:

Malpas, S. and Wake, P. (eds.) (2006) The Routledge Companion To Critical Theory. London: Routledge

Transmedia Storytelling: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes it own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.

By Henry Jenkins

(Find out more about this topic here)

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is an American single-frame web series which has been adapted from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The story is conveyed in the form of vlogs (video blogs). It was created by Hank Green and Bernie Su. It also has Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

Regency England: Key Concepts

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Jane Austen's life

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Kings and Queens - Part 1

Meet the Stuarts....

 

Metre: Poetry

Poem: Metrical Feet - A lesson for a boy

Derwent Coleridge, the third child of Samuel, started learning ancient Greek before he was even seven years old. In 1807, Samuel sent his young son a letter in which he wrote: "I am greatly delighted that you are so desirous to go on with your Greek; and shall finish this letter with a short lesson of Greek"; about a month later, Samuel sent Derwent another letter in which he enclosed the poem "Metrical Feet – A Lesson for a Boy." Coleridge wrote the poem in order to help his son learn about some of the different types of "metrical feet" in ancient Greek poetry (which an also be found in English)

Metrical Feet: a lesson for a boy

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1806)

Trochee trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks, strong foot!, yet ill able
Ever to come up with Dactyl's trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long.
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests throng.
One syllable long, with one short at each side,
Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride --
First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer
Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high-bred Racer.

If Derwent be innocent, steady, and wise,
And delight in the things of earth, water, and skies;
Tender warmth at his heart, with these meters to show it,
WIth sound sense in his brains, may make Derwent a poet --
May crown him with fame, and must win him the love
Of his father on earth and his father above.
My dear, dear child!
Could you stand upon Skiddaw, you would not from its whole ridge
See a man who so loves you as your fond S.T. Coleridge.

Poem: A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

Jonathan Swift composed this poem in 1731 and he subtitled it (ironically) “Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex,”. It reflects the persistent, unromantic, and satirical vision that marks the later years of Swift’s writing. This most unpoetic of poems presents the terrible process by means of which an eighteenth century London prostitute gets ready to go to sleep after her job—a process which involves her divesting herself of those various artifices she uses to disguise both her physical and moral corruption. The poet offers three different moments in Corinna's night: her preparations for bed (lines 1-38), her fitful dreams (lines 39-59), and her waking to personal disaster (lines 58-64).

The “I” of a first-person narrator (could it be Swift himself) intrudes at the end to provide moral commentary on the whole situation described (lines 65-74).

Scientific Revolution

Revolution: (Latin revolutio, "turn around") It is a fundamental change in political power or organizational structure that takes place in a relatively short period of time when the population rises up in revolt against the current authorities.

The Scientific Revolution refers to the historical changes that unfolded in Europe between 1550 and 1700. Those changes included developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry, which transformed the views and beliefs of society about nature, religion paving the way to modern science.