Yep - plus a million to that, breaking things out into little bite-sized pieces like the proposal for the Git lesson is an awesome solution.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Damien Irving < [email protected]> wrote: > That's an even better solution > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Greg Wilson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I think that if you want to put a challenge in the middle of a lesson, >> your lesson is telling you that it wants you to split it in half. >> "Spliiiiit meee.... split me heeeerrre...." >> - G >> >> On 2015-03-31 4:39 PM, Damien Irving wrote: >> >>> I agree with Azalee. There needs to be some standard challenges included >>> within the lessons because (a) that will help instructors who just want to >>> pick up the notes and run with them, and (b) some of concepts in the >>> lessons are taught via challenge as opposed to lecture / live coding. Those >>> challenges have to appear at the correct place within the lesson or else >>> the whole thing doesn't work. If we adopt the approach of putting all the >>> lessons at the end then we are taking away challenges as a tool for >>> teaching new concepts and restricting ourselves to only using challenges as >>> a tool for practice and consolidation. >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- Best Regards, Bill Mills Community Manager Mozilla Science Lab
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