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		<title>Choose: Education OR Fun. Apparently, you can&#8217;t have both.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked about this before (Trading off between Education and Fun??? SRSLY?, and FUN Should NOT be an ‘F’-Word). I even wrote about this in my book. Many people in Education seem to believe that fun and education are at &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/25/choose-education-or-fun-apparently-you-cant-have-both/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>» Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; » Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com. I shared this on FB the other day and got some responses I had to think about for a while. First, here&#8217;s the summary of the list: Force them &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/25/top-ten-ways-to-annoy-a-gifted-child-giftedguru-com/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Take on Gender Stereotyping in Comic Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Avengers: Strike a&#160;Pose! Here we have the original ad pic for the new Captain America film (note the position of the Black Widow) followed by how it might look if all the superheros were made to pose like us &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/21/interesting-take-on-gender-stereotyping-in-comic-characters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Education Publishing Is Big Business &#124; Epicenter &#124; Wired.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting&#8230;. Why Education Publishing Is Big Business &#124; Epicenter &#124; Wired.com. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia &#124; VentureBeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia &#124; VentureBeat. http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/apple-textbook-dark-side One of the problems with Apple is that it wants to commandeer market share by preventing people from having a choice. Even though the love for Apple is strong &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/20/the-dark-side-of-apples-digital-textbook-utopia-venturebeat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Outside the Box: Sweden debuts first classroom-less school &#124; SmartPlanet</title>
		<link>http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/19/learning-outside-the-box-sweden-debuts-first-classroom-less-school-smartplanet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=learning-outside-the-box-sweden-debuts-first-classroom-less-school-smartplanet</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweden debuts first classroom-less school &#124; SmartPlanet. It looks great. This isn&#8217;t a new concept though &#8211; Canada (and I&#8217;m sure other places too) experimented with &#8220;Open Concept&#8221; schools in the late 60&#8242;s. The design of the school in the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/19/learning-outside-the-box-sweden-debuts-first-classroom-less-school-smartplanet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA Supporters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1433222/sopa-and-pipa-so-far Here is Slashdot&#8217;s update. It contains a link to a GoogleDoc that lists the companies that support SOPA (far as we know). It is interesting what kinds of companies are on this list &#8211; many of them sell high-end &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/19/sopa-supporters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Note to Faculty: Don&#8217;t Be Such a Know-It-All &#8211; Teaching &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to Faculty: Don&#8217;t Be Such a Know-It-All &#8211; Teaching &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education. This isn&#8217;t news. I&#8217;ve been doing this for decades. Not long after I started teaching, I came to realize that a good way to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/18/note-to-faculty-dont-be-such-a-know-it-all-teaching-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of the New Groupthink &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rise of the New Groupthink &#8211; NYTimes.com. I&#8217;ve long suspected that many (if not most) people who insist on groupwork for everything do so because they can&#8217;t really produce anything on their own. Working in groups is great and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/15/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink-nytimes-com/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gamasutra &#8211; Features &#8211; 7 Things To Know About HTML5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s best to wait a bit before developing anything non-trivial in HTML-5 Gamasutra &#8211; Features &#8211; 7 Things To Know About HTML5.]]></description>
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		<title>Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives (Forbes)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timely. Know anyone like this? You don&#8217;t have to be the head of a big corporation to be like this: The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives &#8211; Forbes. &#160; They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environment &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/06/spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives-forbes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of the Designer Who Codes &#124; Inc.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Knowing the technology better means more productive arguments when there are disagreements because everyone speaks the same language.&#8221; via The Value of the Designer Who Codes &#124; Inc.com. If you want to design applications you need to understand how they &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/03/the-value-of-the-designer-who-codes-inc-com/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Janice Harper: Top Ten Reasons to Rethink Anti-Bully Hysteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are REALLY good points. Janice Harper: Top Ten Reasons to Rethink Anti-Bully Hysteria. &#160; 1. In the understandable rush to eradicate mean-spirited and aggressive people in the workplace, there is a tendency to move from anti-bully to pro-mobbing and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/03/janice-harper-top-ten-reasons-to-rethink-anti-bully-hysteria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Wish for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year both my mother and my brother died. It has made me stop and think very seriously about how I live my life. My niece posted this article on Facebook in December and I&#8217;ve adapted it for myself. (adapted &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2012/01/01/my-wish-for-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland&#8217;s School Success &#8211; Anu Partanen &#8211; National &#8211; The Atlantic</title>
		<link>http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2011/12/31/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success-anu-partanen-national-the-atlantic/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success-anu-partanen-national-the-atlantic</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrin Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American public education is like WAL-MART. What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland&#8217;s School Success &#8211; Anu Partanen &#8211; National &#8211; The Atlantic. Compared with the stereotype of the East Asian model &#8212; long hours of exhaustive cramming and rote memorization &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2011/12/31/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success-anu-partanen-national-the-atlantic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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