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Intellectually rigorous work lives, thrives, and teems proudly outside conventional notions of academic rigor. Although institutions of higher education only recognize rigor when it mimics mastery of content, when it creates a hierarchy of expertise, when it maps clearly to pre-determined outcomes, there are works of exception - multimodal, collaborative, and playful - that push the boundaries of disciplinary allegiances, and don't always wear their brains on their sleeves, so to speak.

If you think of riding a bike in terms of pedagogy, training wheels are what learning experts call scaffolding.