The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video.
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@Daojoan all compounded by the fact that the vast majority of people uploading instructional videos are *monumentally fucking shit* at instructing. Teaching is a skill, and most people who try to do it just leave you wanting to punch them repeatedly for being so obliviously bad at it
@mark_f_lynch @Daojoan
Odd opinion: if education were keeping up with the times, English classes would *absolutely* be replacing their third treatments of basic English grammar and five-paragraph essays with three months of coverage of how to make a good video essay. -
@ftranschel @Npars01 @Daojoan
Not for the ones that are actually embedded into the videos. "Shoutout to today's sponsor..." -
The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...
@Daojoan And still, here I am, with thousands of words in written course materials, struggling to fill my instructor-led course cohorts. Good instructional design isn't as flashy as a YT thumbnail, but much more effort. Haven't cracked this one yet.
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@crowbriarhexe @Daojoan
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The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...
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@Daojoan forget code, it takes me *forever* to learn video games now for the same reason.
@CartyBoston @Daojoan
I understand that a factor in that is that "Fandom" (nee Wikia) goes out of its way to attempt to buy every single wiki for every single game, and tries to find excuses to sue any they don't own (like someone phrasing the same basic info the same way). I've heard that they own GameFAQs these days too, which is part of why people barely contribute to that anymore.Wish I had ideas for how to shatter that particular master of the universe.
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@ftranschel @Npars01 @Daojoan
Not for the ones that are actually embedded into the videos. "Shoutout to today's sponsor..." -
The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...
@Daojoan
Funnily enough, I was ranting similarly earlier today. It’s so rude to waste so much of your audience’s time just because you can’t be bothered to write a text version.
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@mark_f_lynch @Daojoan
Odd opinion: if education were keeping up with the times, English classes would *absolutely* be replacing their third treatments of basic English grammar and five-paragraph essays with three months of coverage of how to make a good video essay.@pteryx @mark_f_lynch @Daojoan oh, my kid who's in college rn has absolutely been assigned "produce a podcast about [topic]"
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@mark_f_lynch @Daojoan
Odd opinion: if education were keeping up with the times, English classes would *absolutely* be replacing their third treatments of basic English grammar and five-paragraph essays with three months of coverage of how to make a good video essay.@pteryx @mark_f_lynch @Daojoan
Please no! The basics are being lost far too fast already! -
@Professor_Stevens @Daojoan
I understand that specific phenomenon to be a result of plain old recipe instructions not looking "legit" to web search algorithms. Leading with an irrelevant story is an SEO trick to look like a "real" webpage to a computer, even though it drives us actual humans absolutely nuts. -
@pteryx @mark_f_lynch @Daojoan
Please no! The basics are being lost far too fast already!@KimSJ @mark_f_lynch @Daojoan
I get the sense that the basics are perceived by a lot of students as arbitrary, purposeless, and meaningless. They might be retained better if the logic behind, say, why punctuation even exists were clearer to the average student.
