If you want your adult learners to run a mile from your course, ‘teach’ them content, call them ‘students’ and make them submit an ‘assignment’ that will be ‘graded’.
The words we use matter. They help us understand what we think about those practices. Words can continuously remind us what we all care about and what we believe in.
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