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>> Yes. Supply of PBS quality content is a solved problem. With good curation, sharing, and sleuthing -- I find the educational content on YouTube to surpass a
by TuringNYC 5y ago
>> Yes. Supply of PBS quality content is a solved problem.
With good curation, sharing, and sleuthing -- I find the educational content on YouTube to surpass anything+everything even at undergrad college (minus social and minus interactive language classes.) I also used YouTube extensively to supplement grad school course materials, with great success. I realize not everyone learns this way, but many do, and it is freely available now.
While there may be a demand side problem, that can be fixed with better curation facilities. Legislation might not be able to fix this, but it can sure as heck hurt it given some of the current rhetoric.
Unfortunately, if "big tech" is treated as a single entity to be enforced, we'll end up doing something monumentally destructive like losing YouTube as it is now (which I consider an international cultural and educational treasure w/o exaggerating.)
- sigzero 5y ago> With good curation, sharing, and sleuthing -- I find And it's biased because of the "I find". Everyone filters information even subconsciously.
- TuringNYC 5y agoYou're absolutely right. My approach has been to take my syllabus, ignore the textbook -- which is often completely theoretical and unnecessarily flooded with greek letters -- and found better course material on YouTube. The syllabus is important indeed. Another approach is to subscribe to lecture seriess on YouTube from other universities with better curation -- and let that university do the filtering.