Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Video lesson

So, there is lots of discussion about the "quality" of video versus text, and the experience of being a student and a learner in the digital world. TED ED is doing much to illustrate the fact that good video does a better job presenting complex ideas and perhaps giving context to make textbooks more meaningful.

Here is a perfect example. I maintain that a student who is exposed to a video such as this has a fundamentally different (and more sophisticated and more accurate) understanding of atoms than I did even when I was an undergraduate science major:

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