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🚫 Anti-Techniques

These are ideas I used to believe that now I think aren't actually so great. Oops!

πŸŽ₯ Embed A Classic

Take out a boring sample and embed great art, music, film, tv shows, and other classics into your lessons.

πŸͺ„ Change, Then Explain!

My favorite way to reach "synthesize" - ask students to make a change and then explain the effects of that change.

πŸ”ƒ Think Big! But Also Small.

Get your students' thinking moving from specific to the abstract and then back again.

πŸ’₯ Get Ridiculous

Avoid boring examples and go for the outliers! Everything's more interesting when you're working with unexpected examples.

πŸ› Fuzzy Problems

Fuzzy problems are ambiguous. They are missing data. They have lots of right answers, but (more importantly) they also have wrong answers.

🀭 Find The Controversy

Every topic has some juicy controversy. Leverage it! Look for ambiguity, disagreements, dilemmas, and discrepancies in any topic.

❓ Ask Better Questions

I received surprisingly little training on how to ask questions, considering how many darn questions I asked!

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