As evidenced by the numerous poorly asked questions by students on Stack Overflow, it is clear that many students have difficulty understanding how to ask questions there.Even as teachers, we often seem to have difficulty asking questions on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites.There have been flawed attempts with teachers assigning ask a question and up vote another student's answer which conflict the vote on good material, not the user (along with often asking really awful questions that get down voted and deleted).  Those questions tend to invoke the ire of the Stack Overflow employees and diamond mods and leave everyone involved with a sour taste in their mouth.As students get out into the industry, they may find that having a good understanding of how to search and ask questions on Stack Overflow to be a valuable tool.  So, how do we teach how to use Stack Overflow?Neglecting teaching how to use Stack Overflow in today's world is as bad as not teaching a student how to use a debugger and relying on the industry to teach the basics of software engineering and the tools available and expected to be used with a modicum of proficiency.
How to more efficiently teach Stack Overflow?
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