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The Biggest Myth In Education
Veritasium debunks the idea of learning styles, such as being a visual learner, with an interview with Daniel Willingham and a memory experiment. It argues that a multimodal approach helps everyone.
Why HN readers recommended it
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Veritasium
- Topic
- learning styles myth
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I love Veritasium. Derek has done a number of videos that are awesome like this. The videos are great and educational, but he also manages to subtly weave in an almost spiritual subtext to them as well. For example, in this one, you learn about …
travisgriggs on Hacker News · 2021-11
In How imaginary numbers were invented [video]While we now know a lot about teaching, a lot of misconceptions have been found recently regarding “truths” about teaching, its a fascinating subject really, and the main problem seems to be lack of rigorous repeatable double blind testing for all of those things. Veritasium …
seer on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Long-term NAEP scores for 13-year-olds drop for first time since testing beganI kind of wish this urban myth dies. There are more common things amongst humans about learning than differences. By a long shot. Veritasium covered this in much greater detail but still approachable by the laymen: [VIDEO] It almost always shutsdown the discussion of improving …
systemvoltage on Hacker News · 2022-03
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