I’ve been watching more YouTube lately, and I’m suddenly hungry for spaced repetition. I want each video to dump a set of cards into my memory bucket.
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I’m flashing back to you this summer throwing out ways to integrate youtube and SR, which I didn’t viscerally feel a need for—but I do now!
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There is so much amazing edu content on youtube, but it feels closer to popcorn than broccoli. I feel a strange and foreboding awareness that any knowledge I’m building is on a soft foundation, and it will sink into the bog if left unattended (as it probably will be).
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SR feels like a way to preserve whatever higher-level understanding we develop by driving key facts into the bog like pilings, which provides a more stable foundation for knowledge
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I could make SR cards myself—which I’ve done before for books—but I really want them to just appear magically. For convenience, but also because I’ll pay better attention if I’m being quizzed later and that doesn’t work if I write the cards.
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