An Approach to Life

Hosted by Jonathan Dale NCSL’s Operational Director for E learning school leader practitioners tell of their journey to successful leadership through use of the NCSL’s blended learning approach. They will explore how the e learning elements of their programmes have impacted on their own professional development and how this has helped improve the outcomes for the children in their schools. Programmes discussed will include the dynamic Leadership Pathways and a special opportunity to come right up-to-date reflecting on the impact of the new personalised version of the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) with its use of mobile technologies. www.bettshow.com

Duration : 0:9:59

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Hosted by Jonathan Dale NCSL’s Operational Director for E learning school leader practitioners tell of their journey to successful leadership through use of the NCSL’s blended learning approach. They will explore how the e learning elements of their programmes have impacted on their own professional development and how this has helped improve the outcomes for the children in their schools. Programmes discussed will include the dynamic Leadership Pathways and a special opportunity to come right up-to-date reflecting on the impact of the new personalised version of the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) with its use of mobile technologies. www.bettshow.com

Duration : 0:8:45

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When studying for the uniform acceleration presentation, I was reminded of a wierd effect in the intersection between general relativity and quantum field theory, called the Unruh effect. It may blow your mind or simply make you shrug. I thought it prudent to present it anyhow, as it certainly blew my mind.

I did not put as much work into this as I would like. But the real justification for this effect is a bit beyond my scope, so you will have to make do with a popular science version akin to how the Hawking’s radiation (radiation from black holes) is presented in popular science.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_effect
and
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Cambridge-Monographs-Mathematical-Physics/dp/0521278589

Errata: I marveled that my simple popular science approach yielded the correct formula and not only a proportionality, but that was a bit premature. As you may recall, there was a ‘pi’ in my earlier expression of the temperature as a function of acceleration, which did not appear in the semi-classical dimensionality argument. So it wasn’t that big of a fluke, after all. Good thing, really.

Duration : 0:8:52

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