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try-first-tell-later

Structure educational content using try-first-tell-later pedagogy where students predict, attempt, or reflect before receiving explanations. Creates active learning through cognitive engagement and variation theory's contrast patterns. Use when writing educational materials, designing exercises, creating lecture notes, structuring tutorials, writing teaching examples with LaTeX/Beamer, developing problem sets, or when user mentions try-first, predict-first, productive failure, Socratic method, question-before-answer, exercise-driven learning, or inquiry-based teaching.

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Installation and usage

Structure educational content using try-first-tell-later pedagogy where students predict, attempt, or reflect before receiving explanations. Creates active learning through cognitive engagement and variation theory's contrast patterns. Use when writing educational materials, designing exercises, creating lecture notes, structuring tutorials, writing teaching examples with LaTeX/Beamer, developing problem sets, or when user mentions try-first, predict-first, productive failure, Socratic method, question-before-answer, exercise-driven learning, or inquiry-based teaching.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use try-first-tell-later