The Most Persistent Myth
Veritasium0 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
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Veritasium argues that every new technology, from motion pictures to TV, was predicted to revolutionize education and none did. It asks what actually could, drawing on the host's physics education research.
HN cites it in education and AI threads as a history of failed technology-will-transform-teaching predictions.
1:03:43How to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
12:44We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
CGP Grey
1:02:42Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
DevGAMM
1:20:09Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur
UMBCtube
59:56Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart
Pierce College District WA
11:41RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms
Royal Society of Arts
1:37:45Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
Kenneth Friedman
1:04:41Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)
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3 comments from Hacker News
We definitely have had a long history of "this changes everything for education!"[1], but 15 years is a long time for internet infrastructure to change and spread. The article seems to allude to such innovations. [1] [VIDEO]
Reminds me of "This Will Revolutionize Education: No prediction has been made as often, and as incorrectly as that." [VIDEO] The main problem is that learning is hard, and occurs inside the learner's head, rather than anything external outside of the learner.
Of course it has been a problem, I provided you with books from the 60s and the 70s to show a better way to educate people. See [VIDEO] for why TV or anything else didn't obsolete teaching.