Via Aysha Khan of the American Journalism Review:

As journalism schools across the country scramble to teach their students new skills to keep up with the rapidly changing industry — like data visualization — Matt Waite in Nebraska has an idea.

Start out your early teachings of that particular complex skill by using Legos. … After Waite posted about his teaching experiment, Stanford journalism instructors used Legos in their class to visualize Super Bowl data as well.

Read more: http://ajr.org/2015/02/02/journalism-professors-used-legos-teach-supe...