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Did you shape your image of Christmas according to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women? Everyone loves Christmas stories; they are the perfect mixture of sweet and sour that reminds us how shallow our daily worries are.

"Based on the motivational theories of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, the game encourages students to assess themselves not on how smart or talented they are, but on how hard they work. And the reward for completing quests with characters is significant: Help the Cheshire cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and he'll help you turn invisible so you can sneak through the virtual world a la Harry Potter and his invisibility cloak. "The more characters from literature you get to know, the more powerful you become," says Schell. "

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for tweeting with the link :D