| ▲ | n4r9 11 hours ago |
| Yeah. I struggle to understand how podcasts and youtube are an efficient learning resource. They are slow, unstructured, and unsearchable. Whilst some software can ameliorate some of these (e.g. playback speed control), there's no analogue to the process of "can skip this paragraph, can skip this paragraph, let's search back for the definition of this term, let's cross-reference this term with this other text, let's see how many pages are left in this chapter...". I think most people just find it easy to put a podcast and pay semi-attention on while they do tasks or go on their phone. And the education sector is having to adapt to that and make it possible for students to achieve good grades by learning like that. |
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| ▲ | high_na_euv 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The good thing about videos is that you can literally see somebody doing something from end tonend Not just the critical part described in an article |
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| ▲ | n4r9 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Surely an article can cover a process end-to-end, just as a video can focus on only a critical part. Do you mean that the medium of video encourages the author to be more thorough? | | |
| ▲ | high_na_euv 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sometimes I like to watch how someone does something cuz you can see interesting things E.g watching developer write software can show you things about OS usage, IDE usage, automation and other tricks and habbits | | |
| ▲ | n4r9 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's fair. Someone commented in a different fork that videos are good for DIY jobs, and I totally agree. You want to see a person doing it live, so you can imitate their motions. I was thinking about learning something theoretical, like mathematics or history. |
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| ▲ | short_sells_poo 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Perhaps I'm old fashioned but I despise this new fad of everything having to be a video. I can read much-much faster than the goober on youtube can talk, and I can easily skip sections which are uninteresting because I can see at a glance what the paragraph is about. But these days everyone has to be a Content Creator and a Personality and there's just no money or celebrity in written text, even though it is a vastly better medium for a lot of knowhow. So if I want to know something that could be a paragraph, I have to seek through a 15 minute video padded with 10 minutes of "Like, comment and subscribe and don't forget to smash that bell because it helps me so much"... </old man yells at cloud> |
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| ▲ | torlok 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's not about being old fashioned. If you can't maintain focus to read a book, you're obviously not truly engaging with the material. How far are you going to get in a field, if you're reliant on having everything explained to you in simple terms. | |
| ▲ | fiforpg 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Not only written text is a faster way to communicate information, it is so because it has much bigger context window: "A moment" in a video is exactly that, a moment of time, either a frame or a couple of seconds that will stay in short term memory. "A moment" in a text is a page or two facing pages. There can be diagrams or formulas there. It is extremely easy to direct attention to parts of these pages, in any order. In a video, "moments" in the above sense are generally low information, quickly changing in linear order. In a text, they are fewer and of higher density. It seems that the second type is easier to commit to long-term memory, to understand, etc. | |
| ▲ | A4ET8a8uTh0 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There is a place for everything. I absolutely love video for home improvement stuff, because instructions for those tend to be not great or inaccurate pictographs. The problem is that we forgot that for each task, there is an appropriate tool. Video is a good tool for some things. Raw text is a better tool for other. | |
| ▲ | 1aqp 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hear! hear! |
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