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  1. Margaret Fero @MaggieFero ·

    Remember to use your scaffolding to keep students in that zone of proximal development, and *always* reflect! - Elizabeth Bacon @ the Education Summit

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  2. Margaret Fero @MaggieFero ·

    When we design instruction, we must think about what kinds of cognitive processes we want students to engage in and what kinds of authentic tasks encourage that process.

    Motivate students with context, explain how the skill is really used, scaffold enough for students to complete a meaningful portion of the task, and then assess/reflect on it. - Elizabeth Bacon @ the Education Summit

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  3. Margaret Fero @MaggieFero ·

    We still have many authentic skills and practices that students will be very much expected to use as future developers, including the decomposition, using documentation, and communication! - Elizabeth Bacon @ the Education Summit

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  4. Margaret Fero @MaggieFero ·

    CS Students have always been able to copy from StackOverflow, so giving the right answer without understanding is not new. However, students are newly extra-tempted to offload cognitive work in ways that do not serve them well, and there are distractions with screens. - Elizabeth Bacon @ the Education Summit

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  5. Margaret Fero @MaggieFero ·

    We ate lunch, I'm awake, and up next at the Education Summit is Elizabeth Bacon with a talk on Scaffolding CS Activities! 🎉

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  6. Margaret Fero @MaggieFero ·

    Such a great point from @sheena at the education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning!

    I used a similar example in my talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though.

    So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.

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  7. Margaret Fero @MaggieFero ·

    It's my first session visit of !! I'm not awake enough for live posting yet but today I'm at the

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