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Guiding students to develop essential skills

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Students should interact with one another to practice skills and construct their own understanding, with assistance from a teacher acting as a coach and guide---not a lecturer.

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 2
    February 2020
    80 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/3380852
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