@adamwathan Mainly because I can easily predict and control the blast radius of change. I don't have to worry about breaking stuff accidentally. Also it maps very closely to CSS already, so the cognitive overhead is low -- I can pretty easily find (or create) the utility I need.

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@MrZachG I wasn't ready to actually dig into theory until probably a few years into my teaching career. I could memorize facts about the theory, but actually applying it even sort of successfully took mechanical fluency that I didn't have until year 2.5-ish.

@MrZachG Most of my work with them was "So this thing you're noticing has a name and a body of literature behind it, as well as some competing theories and bodies of practice." Also: "So here are some things you might not be noticing because you don't know yet to look for them."

@MrZachG (Coordination can also remove cognitive load -- sometimes I pair-program with a colleague if the code is gnarly enough that I just need an extra brain. No shame there. But it's different from group-work for learning)

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@MrZachG Toward the end of my time teaching, my classroom rules were such that students would look at them and say "Yeah, that all makes sense and seems fine/fair" and then we'd just move on with learning (maybe a clarifying Q or two). We didn't need a constitutional convention.

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Shifting over to Blue Sky:

@Doug_Lemov Did similar when I taught computer science; having them write or turn/talk before I called on them meant they had to do the thinking first no matter what. Usually also meant we could catch confusion early instead of “I’ll just figure it out tonight”