Mastodawn

something I've been thinking about is how, when I teach a class, I tell the TAs to never, ever touch the keyboard when they're helping a student with an assignment. not even once! because as soon as someone else is driving, it becomes real easy for the student to stop thinking and just let things happen.

kind of like what happens when we use a coding assistant.

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Fred Tranfield

@regehr oh please spare me. This is the same chicken little, the sky is falling, rhetoric I heard when calculators came into classrooms. My dad taught math. He didn't worry about the calculators. He didn't worry about the students getting answers "right" with or without those calculators because, as he said, "the point of teaching is to teach students to think."