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Assign projects that involve multimedia creation. It inspires students to spend extra time on assignments to make them “cool.”

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  • The extra motivation can push students to better learn covered material and learn more material in order to make their assignments fit their desired outcome.

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"Promising new pedagogical approaches for teaching high school computer science" by Chris Stephenson, under "Media Computation"

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