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Yes there are multiple learning styles, but two fundamental truths about learning are almost universal: * Retention requires repetition * Understanding
by usrbinbash 4y ago
Yes there are multiple learning styles, but two fundamental truths about learning are almost universal:
* Retention requires repetition
* Understanding requires interaction
That's one of the reasons why learning by reading is so powerful: Reading is an active involvement, it's an interaction.
Videos CAN deliver that, but it's a lot harder, because a video is not something I conciously need to interact with; I press play and it plays, whether my mind wanders to something else or no.
Videos can deliver repetition, but the format in which social media present them (with the next clickbait always only a small flick of the cursor way) doesn't exactly help.
IMHO, Videos can excel at explaining topics with laser focus on a small, complex topic, that is then explained in detail with multiple examples. When trying to teach broad topics reading wins out most of the time.
- haswell 4y agoI generally agree with this comment. I think the things I'd highlight are: 1) Retention is not always needed. If my primary goal is to gain cursory knowledge of the top 5 frontend frameworks so I can decide which one I'll sink the necessary time into so I can retain/understand it, the short format can be fine (and highly desirable). I'll follow it up with a proper deep dive. 2) Understanding of core subjects may have already been established by decades of experience, and the video is just communicating what is possible, or the delta between Tech A and Tech B. I think it boils down to: each format has a time and a place. I do think that trying to learn the depths of a completely new subject by watching 5 minute hyper-distilled overviews is not going to go well. But that's not why I find these videos useful, personally.