You know you should make your class more active. Asking students regular, low stakes questions about the key concepts, skills, and process you are teaching is essential. In a 50-minute lesson, it is great to do that 5 times.  You shouldn’t grade any of the questions, and you should asks students to talk with with each other about each one.  Even when you know this is important, it can be hard to do. Who actually has time? We wind up avoiding making active learning components because we are already spending so much time making slides of our content and creating assessments. And then we spend even more time marking! The…