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> I watched a few of the videos at random. Take the "perfect powers" with the guy with a banana pointing at a white board. Did I know that information before? N
by movedx 4y ago
> I watched a few of the videos at random. Take the "perfect powers" with the guy with a banana pointing at a white board. Did I know that information before? No. Did I learn anything? Kind of but it's essentially trivial knowledge acquisition. I won't remember it in X hours, days, weeks. It's a waste of time.
I'm an educator and content creator. Can I ask what kind video content you do want to see? What content do you find most useful for knowledge retention, and how do you prefer it to be delivered? 5m video? 15m? 5h?
- gardenhedge 4y agoFor it to be retained I think it needs to be part of a learning stream or process. E.g. I am purposefully learning about unique number properties and the "perfect powers" video is part of that. Edit: I just checked out https://upload.academy/ https://upload.academy/ on your profile. Content looks awesome. Well done!
- movedx 4y agoThank you so much for your feedback. How do you feel about written materials? And thank you! There's a big change coming to how we deliver our products, which will have a very strong focus on 1-2-1 mentoring and a private community and streaming content.
- rovr138 4y agoNot them, but I prefer written to video. I can ctrl/cmd+f to search for what I’m looking for. If you’re focusing on video, maybe having the content also written would help to find the video too thanks to having the text written and then it’s indexed better by search engines.
- jimmaswell 4y agoKhanAcademy is ideal for me.
- movedx 4y agoInteresting. So you like the way Khan Academy delivers content via a continuous playlist of videos? I assume having the ability to "jump around" is attractive to you also?
- jimmaswell 4y agoI like the structure, the way it keeps track of the subjects I've gone through, the tests, and the slower paced lecture style that builds on previous videos. A lot of things that would be hard or impossible to do in a TikTok
- movedx 4y agoThanks for that feedback. Appreciated :-)
- wkat4242 4y agoI wish more content creators would just write down what they want to teach. Instead of making videos. It's much easier to absorb at your own speed (videos are usually tailored to the slowest viewer so it's toe-curlingly frustrating for me), easier to skip explanations of things you already know, and easier to jump from place to place without losing track of the overall narrative.
- vanjajaja1 4y agoI do not agree with this. It's nice to have cheat sheets created, but video learning materials specifically exist along side text materials. If you're looking for text then you'll find plenty of it on google. Not sure why you'd want people to stop making videos. I like video learning.
- wkat4242 4y agoThat's true, they can coexist. I just don't like the way that video is seen to be the only way to provide learning content now. It's the most accessible to mainstream users but it's not the most effective for people with existing background imo.
- movedx 4y agoMy method is to use video to tell the viewer why they should care about the thing I'm about to teach them, and simply when a video demonstrates the idea clearly, such as running commands or using dashboards. Other than that, text is king on so many levels.
- slenk 4y ago>15m but <1h IMO
- movedx 4y agoThank you.