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The Blank Page

I can't believe the blank page actually got to me yesterday when I set up this blog.  That's a first for me...actually not having words, to say or write.  It might be because I'm typing instead of using pen and paper.  I've discussed that whole topic before, I'm searching for it now.  I love searching, researching, discovering, finding.  I think I'd be a great Montessori teacher because of how I think about discovery learning.  Too bad I haven't had the training.  Found it, as a grad student, I wrote this:  Session Two 08-26-08 Start time 8:09 am Thinking of the pen or pencil to paper is missing from the keyboard strokes to monitor screen.   I’ve been to a couple of difference “Brain Research” presentations at educational conferences and remember how the scientist report that people born into the “video age” has a different synaptic response to the same stimuli.   One showed a video of 6 people passing a basketball back and forth in a circle.   three peopl