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<p>Created page with &quot;== Definition == &#039;&#039;&#039;Show versus tell&#039;&#039;&#039; refers to a general trade-off in pedagogy between &#039;&#039;showing&#039;&#039; ideas (i.e., implicitly demonstrating them) versus &#039;&#039;telling&#039;&#039; (explicit...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Definition ==<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Show versus tell&#039;&#039;&#039; refers to a general trade-off in pedagogy between &#039;&#039;showing&#039;&#039; ideas (i.e., implicitly demonstrating them) versus &#039;&#039;telling&#039;&#039; (explicitly articulating them). The terminology comes from [[wikipedia:show, don&#039;t tell|show, don&#039;t tell]], a maxim in storytelling. Since the goals of storytelling and pedagogy are not identical, the maxim doesn&#039;t quite apply to pedagogy, and the question of how to trade off between showing and telling is a more nuanced question.</div>

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