friction lab.sort the calibration map
a calibration challenge · pedagogical friction framework

walls, workouts, and shortcuts.

Ten classroom design moves. Sort each one onto the map: does it build productive challenge, bypass it, wall students out, or sit beneath the map as a system condition? Every answer explains itself.

Play untimed first. The sixty-second round is a replay: the clock counts only sorting time, not onboarding or reading the feedback.

2axes, not one dial
10moves per round, from a bank of 18
60seconds of sorting, if you want the clock
infrastructurepolicy · time · grading · access
1 / 10no clockstreak 0
design move

Keys 1–4 to answer; Enter to continue.

infrastructurepolicy · time · grading · access
round complete

calibrated reader.

0/10matched the stated criteria
0best streak
—sorting time used

illustrative only · this is a sorting exercise against the framework's stated criteria, not a validated assessment of you or your teaching.

optional: take one move into redesign

Choose one move from this round. What thinking must remain with the learner, what barrier should be removed, and what system condition would make that design possible?

a local drafting aid: not scored, not saved, not transmitted.
go deeper: the 5-minute design version