Weekly Tech Tip - Game-Based Learning Environments and Self-Selection

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Link Stew:

• Eden Prairie OKs changing school lines (Star Tribune)
• Facebook vs. Twitter Infographic
• Books Ngram Viewer
• Future of Education Talk With Alfie Kohn (December 16th) Recording
• List of Resources for Developing AUPs
  

Blog Carnival:

• I Don't Give a Crap by Dean Shareski on Ideas and Thoughts
• Ban fiction from the curriculum by Grant Wiggins on ASCDEdge
• Backwards by Design by Bill Ivey on Independent School Educators Network
• The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time by Al Franken on Huffington Post
• Tip of the Week – 65 History Twitter feeds by Glenn Wiebe on History Tech
• A week without technology? by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
• Crowdsourcing Alternatives To Delicious by Alec Couros on Open Thinking
• What Makes Kids Creative? A Box or a Spaceship? on The Daily Riff
  

Retweetable Tweets:

MDE approved two more charter schools authorizers: Audubon Center of the North Woods and Northfield Public Schools, http://ht.ly/3sQpuless than a minute ago via HootSuiteMn Dept. Education
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I find it odd that an infant will ask "why" 300 times a day yet adults are infatuated with asking just "how".less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhoneJoe Bower
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