The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video.

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Roots feed the branches, and during any 'leap' change, as has been the computer age, there requires a countermeasure to fill the gap/deficit that's left in said "leap".

And as a byproduct of millions of years, of harder physical differentials, placing too much weight on software, and far less on hardware, results in the inevitable asymmetry we're seeing now.

May as well be a brain in a vat, while cockroaches inherit your past potential.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@Daojoan if it's a video 9 times out of 10 I will not view it. If I must view it, I will not play it, but skip through it as fast as I can.

If it's on YouTube? Forget it.

[tagirijus@mas.to]

@Daojoan German #music #education for #free in written form:

https://books.tagirijus.de/

Have fun, people. 👍

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@CountHoldem @Daojoan What's so wrong with empowering the cockroaches? They should be given every tool to succeed, lol.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@SnowBlind2005 is this a serious message or a joke, I can't tell.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@thomasfuchs point me to it, oh wise one.

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@Daojoan My brain can very easily retain information I have read in text. I have a very hard time remembering what somebody said in spoken words.

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

@mjsberna @Daojoan Yeah, because they learned the Old-Tyme teaching adage 'Tell them what you will say, say it, then tell them what you said' and they want to do more of it!🤣

[miszeleq@mastodon.com.pl]

@earthshine @Daojoan

I blame Discord on the downfall of the modern web. You used to be able to find answers to your problems easily on moderated forums, where people used to follow the rules of netiquette. Nowadays you need to join private server and scroll through endless spam.

IDK who had the idea of moving the support/community into de facto chatroom that is Discord, but there is a special place in hell for them.

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan makes me want to make a tutorial video that's just the text of the tutorial slowly scrolling past

[fruitcakesareyum@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

For me it has been a blessing. I've always struggled to keep focused when reading walls of text, but now I can get a visual guide.

For quick "was it Y?" I've never failed to find a brief written answer (usually in SO, reddit or the rare forum post).

For long tutorials, I've managed to find stuff that gets to the point very fast. SponsorBlock for YouTube is also pretty good for skipping meanderings.

We have choices now. What works for you is good, what works for others is also good.

[professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan

Food bloggers used to write things down. That is, they used to teach you how to cook. Nowadays, they still write, but it's like every article starts with, "I was born on a farm in Nebraska..."

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@Netraven Right now in our history, dolphins server a better porpoise.

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

@sashabilton @aoe @Daojoan There are exceptions because Video production requires a specific skill set, as does teaching stuff and they two worlds rarely interface successfully for the viewer.

[swordgeek@mstdn.ca]

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[webnovelverse@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Absolutely correct

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@CountHoldem I doubt the sea will fare much better than the land by the time Humans are done.

The good news is that language is structure and structure is tool shaped. Tools don't require explanation for any thinking organism to understand how to pick them up, and use them again.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@CountHoldem aha, just caught the pun. lol.

[pit@social.namok.be]

@Daojoan y a pas si longtemps mes étudiants ne lisaient plus et regardaient des vidéos... maintenant, avec l'IAG, ils relisent 🥹

[alper@rls.social]

@Daojoan Most people would rather die than write. Fake“professionals” prefer to ramble the same inane bs many times over writing it down once.