Students learn by doing . Applying concepts and actively participating in the learning experience reinforces the factual material presented in lecture. However, these activities are noticeably lacking in the traditional classroom. Knowledge is not a set of facts, concepts, or laws waiting to be discovered. It is not something existing independently of a knower.
Humans create or construct knowledge as they attempt to bring meaning to their experience.
Everything that we know, we have made. Knowledge is conjectural and fallible. Since knowledge is a construction of humans and humans are constantly undergoing new experiences, knowledge can never be stable. The understandings that we invent are always tentative and incomplete. Knowledge grows through experience.