Learning by Doing

The New York Times did it after the election, in January 2017: You Draw It, Learning Statistics by drawing and comparing charts.

‘Draw your guesses on the charts below to see if you’re as smart
as you think you are.’

 

And Bayerischer Rundfunk did it before the election, in April 2017.

This kind of giving information is an excellent strategy to foster insights and against forgetting. And it’s an old tradition in didactics. 360 years ago Amos Comenius emphasized this technique in his Didactica Magna:

“Agenda agendo discantur”