PickVidsBest Education & learning Videos
The 73 Education & learning videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 2 intermediate, 67 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Veritasium, TEDx Talks.
The Classroom Only Works for One Kid in the Room
CGP Grey argues that a classroom works well only for the one student pitched at the average level, and sketches a future of personalized instruction.
How government programs drive up college tuitions
Peter Schiff, during his 2010 Senate campaign, argues that government loan programs and subsidies push college tuition up.
Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
Kathy Sierra's Fluent 2015 keynote on the one metaskill for developers: the ability to come up to speed quickly and stay there.
The call to learn | Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll's energetic TED talk, a wandering mix of anecdotes, a science experiment and thoughts on curiosity, education and technology.
Denmark's Forest Kindergartens
An SBS Dateline short documentary on Danish forest kindergartens, where children play freely outdoors, climb trees and use knives with little adult intervention.
Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, gives a demo-heavy GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on live coding music.
Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos
Veritasium examines research suggesting science explainer videos like Khan Academy's make students feel they understand while tests show they have not learned, because misconceptions go unaddressed.
Seymour Papert
A short vintage film clip of Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, on using computers to spark children's imagination and learning.
Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" | E1039
Journalist Vincent Woo discusses his New York Magazine piece on Lambda School's misleading promises, including its income share agreements and placement claims, in an interview on This Week in Startups.
Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
Alan Kay argues for rethinking how computer science is taught in schools, drawing on his work on object-oriented programming and GUIs.
Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs
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The Chinese Student Crisis
PolyMatter examines how universities, especially in the West, depend on foreign and Chinese student tuition and how rankings and incentives distort institutions around that money.
Inner Game of Tennis
A 1970 demonstration of W.
Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan
Sal Khan of Khan Academy argues that schools push students forward with gaps in their foundations, and that students should instead master concepts at their own pace.
R. P. Feynman on the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
A two-minute clip of Richard Feynman on the difference between knowing the name of something and actually knowing it.
Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
Conrad Wolfram argues that the part of math taught in schools, hand calculation, is tedious and mostly irrelevant to real mathematics.
Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas
Alan Kay's TED talk on teaching ideas, in which he argues the world is not what it seems and shows children learning through programming and building their own lessons with Etoys/Squeak.
Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)
First lecture of Stanford's CS106A Programming Methodology by Mehran Sahami, giving a course overview and starting on programming.
SICP: o fim de uma era
A short Portuguese-language excerpt of Gerald Sussman's 2016 NYC Lisp Meetup talk explaining why MIT replaced the Scheme-based 6.001 (SICP) course with Python courses.
How Children Develop Perfect Pitch
Rick Beato discusses a theory of why some children develop perfect pitch, based on early exposure to music.
Exact Instructions Challenge - THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit
A family video in which kids write instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a parent follows them exactly as written, with comic results.
Duolingo -- the next chapter in human computation | Luis von Ahn | TEDxCMU 2011
Luis von Ahn, creator of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, presents Duolingo at TEDxCMU 2011.
"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)
Felienne Hermans presents Hedy, a gradual programming language for teaching kids that moves through levels from almost no syntax toward full Python.
How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED
Sal Khan of Khan Academy gives a TED talk on how AI could transform education, with a personal tutor for every student and a teaching assistant for every teacher.