Everyone needs a tutorial from time to time. It may be aimed at showing the proper way to whisk an egg, or it may be show how to calculate mass in a chemical reaction.

Learning by teaching is a pedagogical practice that benefits both the giver and the recipient. When a person makes a tutorial, they must understand the topic in depth in order to share the pertinent information and steps with others.

When students are given the opportunity to break a task or information down into digestible bits and then package those bits so that others can digest them easily, they are gaining experience with social knowledge sharing and the tools that make it possible. Those experiences help students prepare for the tasks and tools they'll encounter in college or their careers.