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Combining video, interactive visualizations, & game-like prompts, Visualizing Quaternions is an exciting entrant in a hazy new medium by

@3blue1brown

@ben_eater

: eater.net/quaternions How might this medium evolve? I discuss 3 models in this new post:

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Narrated explorables: three mental models

Three mental models for “narrated explorables,” a new learning medium combining video, interactives, and game-like prompts.

1:20 AM · Oct 27, 2018Twitter Web Client

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This exciting new medium reminds me of some interesting research: “A Meta-Study of Algorithm Visualization Effectiveness” cc.gatech.edu/%7Estasko/pape

Ryan Herr

@rrherr

Oct 27, 2018

“Studies in which students merely viewed visualizations did not demonstrate significant learning advantages... Algorithm visualizations are educationally effective insofar as they enable students to construct their own understandings through a process of active learning.”

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Check out

viruspatterns.com I think it’s also falls into this category of explorables.

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Oct 27, 2018

Yes! It’s great. I almost listed it. I think it’s not quite the same medium, though, because this experience is mostly not interactive throughout. Still worth listing for comparison, especially since Hamish does some more game-like “turns” of control.

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The big challenge is higher dimensions