From Active Learning to Deliberate Practice: an iximiuz Labs case study

Much of the educational tech content on the internet is in the form of blogs/videos/tutorials/walkthroughs/etc, and a lot of it is good, some great, some not so great. One thing that the great stuff has in common is that it encourages a "Learning by Doing" approach. After all, you get better at building a REST API by actually building a REST API...not just reading about it, watching somebody else do it, or drawing out a diagram on a whiteboard. To be sure, a lot of those things I just mentioned (eg, reading about REST APIs) are absolutely necessary input to build your conceptual framework of technical concepts, foundational components, and how the entire system fits together to accomplish a goal. There's very little chance you could just guess at what it should be and get it right on the first, or even 100th time, without SOME context around what you should do. And with this context built through content, active learning is an excellent learning strategy to extend and consolidate the k