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Subject: Re: Producing competent CS grads (was: Theory and Practice)
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In article <40tapo$bsp@carbon.cudenver.edu>,
Todd Arthur Gibson <tgibson@evans.cudenver.edu> wrote:
>Design more (most/all?) of your instruction to be authentic and they
>will learn these skills (and probably respond much more favorably).

Some may respond favorably, but others will not. They will demand to know 
what happened to the student exercises where it was all laid out in 
artificially simple steps. Some will be shocked that they will be using 
not memorization, but thinking, a part of the brain they have rarely been 
encouraged to use before.

Robin



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