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I like making up words, it means I can decide how to spell them and decide what they mean. When speaking Norwegian I make words up all the time without realising.

Chipstorming:  Brainstorming on a computer.

I thought of this while writing the new page on Research. When trying to come up with ideas for investigation students will often throw words at Google to see what comes out. For example "IB physics investigation ideas" might come up with something. This is fine if it is just used to prompt inspiration but shouldn't be used to short circuit the whole creative process.


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