Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Animations and education

The iBook discussion here and other places raises questions about human knowledge and understanding. What was knowledge and understanding for previous generations of humans (for even for humans a few years ago) is no longer sufficient.

Consider science and biological processes. A recent TED Talk (unfortunately available as pixelated video) illustrates the point. Through animations such as are demonstrated in this video, students will be able to more completely and easily understand processes. My prediction is they will be be able to learn better qualitatively and quantitatively (they will learn more and more quickly and they will understand details that previous students did not).

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