Many technologies have promised to revolutionize education, but so far none has. With that in mind, what could revolutionize education?
These ideas have been percolating since I wrote my PhD in physics education: https://ve42.co/phd
I have also discussed this topic with CGP Grey, whose view of the future of education differs significantly from mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vsCAM17O-M
I think it is instructive that each new technology has appeared to be so transformative. You can imagine, for example, that motion pictures must have seemed like a revolutionary learning technology. After all they did revolutionize entertainment, yet failed to make significant inroads into the classroom. TV and video seem like a cheaper, scaled back film, but they too failed to live up to expectations. Now there is a glut of information and video on the internet so should we expect it to revolutionize education?
My view is that it won’t, for two reasons: 1. Technology is not inherently superior, animations over static graphics, videoed presentations over live lectures etc. and 2. Learning is inherently a social activity, motivated and encouraged by interactions with others.
Filmed and edited by Pierce Cook
Supported by Screen Australia’s Skip Ahead program.
Music By Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com “The Builder” and by Amarante Music: http://www.amarantemusic.com
I liked the "You are not a visual learner" thumbnail better
00:05 Historical predictions of educational revolution often fail
00:59 Computers were seen as the solution to educational challenges in the 80s.
01:53 Education revolution through technology?
02:43 Technology hasn't revolutionized education due to core aspects of learning process.
03:35 Different media have similar learning outcomes
04:31 Using words and pictures together promotes meaningful thought processes
05:24 Teachers' role is not just to transmit information but to guide the learning process.
06:18 Technology is an evolution, not a revolution in education.
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While I agree with this video, there are structures in education that detract from student interest and motivation. Regarding my own teaching, I like to say that I can teach any sixth grader long division, but for many what they learn is to hate it. Language learning was difficult for me, I hated English, and I hated my German classes in high school. I'm 70 now and learning a second language, but I'm very slow. The moral of these stories is that we are all different and need to learn at our own pace, but our system isn't structured to do that. Forcing students to learn at a certain pace will generate, in some, a loss of interest and even revulsion to a topic.
I have always said , will always say that :-
Education(Schools,college,universities) is a business that generates money blindly.
YouTube did revolutionise education by making everyone – “inspire” , excite and love learning
To be a good teacher, an…effective teacher, you MUST be popular, BUT…being popular does not mean that you 'are' a good teacher. To 'fulfill' that potential the first half of the job is that you must speak truths that are obviated by experience, BUT…the second part, the harder part, is that you must also teach 'honesty'!
Truth is 'past' based. But to 'invite hope, optimism, ambition, participation, opportunity, and evolution, you must include in the 'now'…the 'yet' to be written future as already being set upon, set in motion and…obligated by the 'now'. That is the existential paradox of the 'can't get a job without experience, can't get experience…!
This is the only way to escape the past and your failure in it, as far as it has been written, which is made inalienable and promises to continue to exclude you. Otherwise, students don't see a place for themselves in the future that the facts, as they are written, don't condemn as being unjustified, unsubstantiated, undeserved.
In 'the truth', nothing can ever be more than it was. That's why honesty includes and begins in advance of evidence to support it through intent manifest, in the 'fake it, until you make it sense'. That is the required starting point for a journey which otherwise you have no license to claim purchase of the first step!
People like you should educate basically everyone
With AI and LLMs, I really hope this myth can finally be busted once and for all!
Sir please make a video on differential calculus please
Brain chips will revolutionize education
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein ❤
time when you are recording camera… nice
2:02 well that one is kind of true we call it "Chat GPT" these days
teachers are useless I had zero teachers inspiring me, they are just there for the pay. I learned mostly bysmyself reading the material and figuring it out
Motivation is the key to all of this.
A.I will surely revolutionize education…
MY PREDICTIONS:
Physical paper books belong to the past – they will eventually become extinct; it's only a matter of time.
Human Teachers are FOREVER – we will always need them; we can never fully replace them.
TLDR nothing is going to happen in the US because teachers are considered a "cost"
the part about the teacher tailored to your specific needs aged well.
According to my parents slippers are best 😅 tools of education
The thing is, free yt vids are exponentially higher quality than the university lectures I'm forced to pay for. None of the teachers nowadays care enough. They literally do their best not to do their job. Yesterday, i had to argue with a teacher about putting the formulas we were using in her PowerPoint slides, so student who were absent could figure it out. Seems like the bare minimum to me, yet she complained about having to add in subscripts
Job of the teacher is to inspire, excite, challenge students….excellent obsevation
And now it is for profit schools.
Thanks teachers that they had given a reason to learn knowledge but some are far above that' they taughts us a reason for to work for the best for life.
I believe the fundamental system based on the subjects (math, language etc.) is flawed we need to teach kids discipline and curiosity and to combine them and students can learn and remember skills for decades
7:09 anyone share with teacher who turn slides only
My god this has been 9 years ago????
This is why a good teacher is of vital importance. A dull teacher will make a student less likely to care or want to learn, even if they enjoy the subject on the whole.
So do you think NOW, 9 years after your deliberation – with the advent of AI – do you think we will revolutionize education?
AI teachers can engage students possibly more effectively than their human counterparts (generally speaking) and inspire, motivate and encourage them consistently throughout their learning journey – teachers can be "customized" to students!
Will that revolutionize learning?
Interactive approaches are better because they force students to use effort to learn something. I can't believe we're not using this all the time.
A task not many talk about!!! Thank you.
Well said ❤
When college courses were offered online, I always chose that option over going to class. For one thing, it saved me time. And I could replay any stretch of the video that I needed to if I missed something. And I could watch it when it was convenient and my head was in it.
Also, I really like the idea of various content creators taking their best shot to explain something, and then being able to choose what works for me, rather than being stuck with the lectures offered by the instructor at my university. For example, 3blue1brown's series on Linear Algebra is, IMHO, a vast improvement over what you would get on the chalkboard by some lecturer at a university for the same material. The comments for those videos are filled with folks saying that they had not really understood the topic, which they took in college, until they saw 3b1b's videos.
You could imagine an education system organized around creating super-high quality videos that would be seen across the country, rather than having thousands of instructors do their own chalkboard version of it. With students able to replay them, or parts of them, as often as they want. Local instructors would take a different role, answering questions and guiding the students to apply what they learned. If you're saying that it wouldn't be any better than what we have, I'm sorry, but I'm skeptical.
ChatGPT and other LLM's has essentially created that personal teaching machine. It's definitely not a replacement – just like all the other things he mentioned have not yet replaced teachers.
"COVID revolutionized education and work"… True, but not necessary wholly to the good.
Propaganda is (political) education
I know this video is a bit older but the frequency at 00:53 is horribly loud to a point that I nearly fell over because of it
Veritasium and VSauce are so timeless.
You didn't mention the labor unions. They're a huge lobby against anything that threatens to replace teachers in the classroom.
Someone said "symbollic representations of spoken knowledge recorded via physical means will one day revolutionise education" and they were rght