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New free working session: Explain It Cold: The Midterm Triage.

Bring the study guide for the midterm you are most worried about. In about 30 minutes you leave holding a ranked list of what to study and what to leave alone:

  1. Write every concept on the study guide onto one page. Names only.
  2. Close the book and explain each one out loud, the way you would to a classmate who missed that week.
  3. Sort each one clean, stalled or blank.
  4. Rank what is left, and spread it across the sessions you have.

It includes a push back prompt for students whose syllabus allows AI for studying: you explain, the AI asks why. Seed, Sprout, Grow, Harvest, done by hand.

Free, no account needed: https://www.harvestkernel.com/explain-it-cold/

When the stall pile is the problem, Concept Coach in the Student Toolkit explains hard concepts at your level and never writes your graded work: https://www.harvestkernel.com/go/students-com