I learn plenty from YouTube videos that are just non-interactive one-to-many lecturing. I think it's something else that makes the system in which lectures embedded a bad one.
Just a reminder that the backbone of our entire education system — non-interactive one-to-many lecturing — is a demonstrably terrible way to learn anything. And we've known this for a very, very long time.
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it helps that you’re choosing which videos to watch when
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Also, to the extent that it does provide value, there's absolutely no reason it can't be pre-recorded and served for near-zero marginal cost. See Khan-academy. It's actually more valuable in that context because you can rewind if you get lost.
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Totally agree. No point in hosting live lectures for canned information that is always roughly the same. Bring on the one-to-one tutors afterwards
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And is designed to train conformist cogs in an agricultural / manufacturing based early industrializing economy.
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I’d actually argue the opposite. “Cogs” who were barely engaged with the in-person format can get the same thing or more from a video. This is most students. The people who engage with the professor for personalized learning and mentorship are going to miss that.
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"It’s impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal." https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_91.html
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It's pretty good at teaching kids to sit still and listen to the one important person in the room and pretty good at eliminating the kids who are bad at that
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It's still good for adults, preteens and teens to teach a lot of them at scale.
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This is what I try to do in my hs science classroom. Lots of labs and simulations. Interpreting data and results and discussing interesting topics. I do have to do some direct instruction as well but it is my least favorite part.
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