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Ellen Langer in her book "The Power of Mindful Learning" (Perseus Books) attempts to explode some of the myths that nowadays are associated with the way we expect to learn. She challenges such assumptions as rote learning is necessary in education, and that paying attention means being focussed on one thing at a time. Her contention is that "mindful learning" has the characteristics of "the continuous creation of new categories, openess to new information and an impilict awareness of more than one perspective". In the VirRAD we will be reifying her theories of learning in terms of an instructional design.