Feuerstein: cognitive theorist

Family and personal events include an encounter with the work of an Israeli psychologist Dr. Reuven Feuerstein. Warning: Amateur at work in this summary.

One formulation of his work is a “Theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability” – Intelligence is not like the 1930′s model (one CPU somewhere in our brain giving rise to a single

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Non-tekky brekky & Google

Had some controversy at the Web 2.0 Non-Tekky brekky recently. About Google. Google is OK vs Google is not.

Found this link today: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_02.php#004400 Apologies. it was on one of a score of new blogs I dipped into when looking for something to help with a colour scheme, and I have no idea where I

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BlogHui is coming

And it’s not a scam. See this link . . . http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/archives/013037.html An interesting observation on truth and silos in the blogging world.

Google or Not??

Had some controversy at the web 2.0 Non-Tekky brekky recently. About Google. Google is OK vs Google is not.

Are they beng evil? Found this link today: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_02.php#004400 Apologies. it was on one of a score of new blogs I dipped into when looking for something to help with a colour scheme, and I have

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Intranets for schools

I discovered a list I wrote in 2000. Features I’d like in an intranet . . . I think I owe some of these ideas to discussions with Graham Warburton.

A picture of a fully developed intranet Monday 3rd July 2000 A medium to communicate information – all sorts of administrative stuff for staff –

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Piled up e-mails . . .

I also talked with Max yesterday about people who don’t reply to e-mails. Today I came across an article on e-mail (linked from 43 folders)

“If Your Inbox Has More Than a Screenful of Messages In It, You‘re Rude”

Obviously a little overstated . . .

But very interesting. Discusses the piler vs the filer.

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Coaching and “In Cold Blood”

Had a visit with Max today (INR, Enrich etc), talking about the internet and things that can be done. Mentioned coaching. Donna Andronicos has some audio coaching soon. Very interesting. The same old theme. People with goals and finding it hard to work on them systematically. A real interest of mine. And he’d got some

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