Frugality
Without frugality, none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. - Samuel Johnson - Last week the New Zealand Lotteries Commission h...
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Do You Believe?
In recent months, there has been discussion in the blogosphere over the attributes and cognitive powers of the brain. This month, Clive Shep...
I Keep Doing This!
This keeps happening to me. My RSS Reader gets filled up in no time so that I have hundreds of unread posts. I have to have a read-in to cle...
Language, Thinking and Creativity
A series of posts has recently nudged my interest in language and thinking. George Siemens, in his short post Tool making and language , dr...
Winter Solstice
Today is the shortest day. Despite the post date, the time of publishing is Sunday 21 June 2009, New Zealand. This time of year, some creatu...
Why Do I Read Blog Posts?
I discovered why I read blog posts this evening. I’d been sifting through several hundred posts that I’d managed to stack up on my RSS reade...
Can Writers Learn From Science?
When I first started writing blog posts, I became almost fanatically interested in what other bloggers had to say about writing. My enthusia...
Why are tehse wdors esay to raed?
I was introduced to a fascinating phenomenon in 2002. Someone had pinned a note on the staff notice-board. My first thought on reading it w...
A Brief Look at Zone of Proximal Development
Lev Vygotsky (1896 -1934) was a pioneer psychologist who lived in Moscow. I have great respect for his studies and found his Mind And Socie...
Where My Time Is Spent
This month’s Big Question on The Learning Circuits Blog is “ where is your time spent? ” It paraphrases this in a series of more specific qu...
A Little (Random) Learning
Fellow blogging companion and friend, Paul C of quoteflections, gave us the challenge : For the month of June could anyone so inclined go on...
More Crystal Ball Gazing
Said to be a landmark in computer entertainment, the creation of Peter Molyneux , Milo, is a young boy who enjoys football, drawing and play...
Proficiency and Deliberative Practice
I find it intriguing how blogging brings opportunities to think and learn but not always in an expected way. There is a collegiality that im...
