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Philosophy, creativity and education

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Cultural Calvanist & Art Books must embrace 21st Century Technologies

Art Books must embrace 21st Century Technologies Q. What happened to post modernism? A. It became Culture Calvinist. Q. What has General Motors and Art got in common? A. They both require ongoing government support, they make things people do no...

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Egghead Costello

I could have been PM. I wanted to be PM. Unfulfilled ambition some say. End of a dream some say. Some say a lot about could have beens. What if I had of challenged Howard? What if I Howard had of stepped down? What if I had of snatch leadership. W...

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Schools and Creativity: Sir Ken Robinson

Why is creativity taken out of productivity? Why is innovation taken out of teaching? Why are schools not helping students to make meaning of their skills? If public education is to provide only the 3 Rs - to enable a functioning society - is ed...

June 17

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EggHead Black has a character - workplace psychopath

Back doesn't change workplaces that often. His power is in his immediate workplace experience. When required Back gets into another workplace via association. Someone in power always owes Back. Back has a network of power friends. When in a tight ...

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Egghead is back Back from the brink of death Entering consciousness there was no gasp for breath for love for space Egghead is back to deceive Created by jjfbbennett - inkscape & Gimp

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What to do with a poor quality teacher.

What to do with a poor quality teacher. “a lot of people who have been hired as teachers are basically not competent.” Al Shanker There is no doubt that the most important element to a child's learning experience is the teacher. Great teachers ha...

May 26

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Social Networking and Teaching

Social Networking is big business. Social Networking holds a significant skills set which is increasingly becoming an important part of contemporary life. Students need to learn how to effectively and efficiently employ the tools for their working...

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Anzac Day supports our continual efforts of invasion.

Anzac Day supports our continual efforts of invasion. ANZAC Day has ceased to be a day where we commit to 'never again'. Anzac Day has become a shallow glorification of Australia's capacity to make war. It is a celebration of Australia's capacit...

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Bill Henson is "Innocence"

Bill Henson is innocence I recently received an Art Monthly (Australia) April 2009 edition as a present. Whilst in the past I collected and read such publications avidly I now read them only by chance. Interestingly in the edition there is an ar...

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Photography and ethics

Digital montage by jjfbbennett. What are the rules that govern journalistic portrait photography? Wide-angle lenses, nonstandard lighting, shooting from below – they’re all fair game and frequently employed by photogs working for major publication...

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Cultural Calvinist & Art Books must embrace 21st Century Technologies

Posted by jjfbbennett on June 24, 2009 at 4:30pm

Egghead Costello

Posted by jjfbbennett on June 20, 2009 at 7:22pm

Schools and Creativity: Sir Ken Robinson

Posted by jjfbbennett on June 17, 2009 at 12:30am

EggHead Black has a character - workplace psychopath

Posted by jjfbbennett on June 6, 2009 at 5:00pm

What to do with a poor quality teacher.

Posted by jjfbbennett on May 26, 2009 at 12:30am

Social Networking and Teaching

Posted by jjfbbennett on May 2, 2009 at 11:30pm

Anzac Day supports our continual efforts of invasion.

Posted by jjfbbennett on May 1, 2009 at 9:00pm

Bill Henson is "Innocence"

Posted by jjfbbennett on April 10, 2009 at 1:11am

Dumbing Down Education

Posted by jjfbbennett on October 31, 2008 at 11:56pm

Failure and Success

Posted by jjfbbennett on August 27, 2008 at 11:00pm

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Get the best out of your sleep

It seems that all you really need to survive and feel rested is the REM phase, which is only a tiny portion of your actual sleep phases at night. You only spend 1-2 hours in REM sleep during any given night, and the rest is wasted on the other seemingly useless phases.The way to hack yourself into entering REM sleep without being exhausted is to trick your body into thinking you’re going to get a