passively learning about it. The argument is that active engagement provides deeper learning and that it’s okay if you make mistakes as you learn from those as well.
This mentality brought forth a new name for this technique: experiential learning. Experimental learning has been around for eons now.
It was Aristotle who wrote that “for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Over the years, that way of thinking changed and developed and for a time was lost once computers were integrated into schools.
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