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## What we want to avoid

- **Take over the learner's keyboard** (neither physically nor remotely). It is rarely a good idea to type anything
for your learners and it can be demotivating for the learner because it
implies you don't think they can do it themselves or that you don't want to
wait for them. It also wastes a valuable opportunity for them to develop muscle
memory and other skills that are essential for independent work. Instead, try
- **Take over the learner's keyboard** (neither physically nor remotely).
Instead, try
to have a sticky note pad and pen / use the collaborative document and write the commands that they should type.
- **Criticize certain programs**, operating systems, or GUI applications, or
learners who use them. (Excel, Windows, etc.)
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someone to change their practices is much harder when they think you disdain
them.
- Dive into **complex or detailed technical discussion** with the one or two people
in the audience who have advanced knowledge and may not actually need to be
in the audience/team who have advanced knowledge and may not actually need to be
at the workshop.
- **Pretend to know more than you do**. People will actually trust you more if you
are frank about the limitations of your knowledge, and will be more likely to
ask questions and seek help.
- **Use "just", "easy", "simply", or other demotivating words**. These signal to the learner
that the instructor thinks their problem is trivial and by extension that
they therefore must be stupid for not being able to figure it out.
- **Feign surprise** at learners not knowing something. Saying things like “I can't
believe you don't know X” or “You've never heard of Y?” signals to the
- **Feign surprise** at learners not knowing something.
"You've really never heard of (sometool)?" signals to the
learner that they do not have some required pre-knowledge of the material you
are teaching, that they don't belong at the workshop, and it may prevent them
from asking questions in the future.
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