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.
How to Speak
Patrick Winston's long-running MIT lecture on public speaking teaches heuristic rules for talks.
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur
Harvard physicist Eric Mazur explains how he realized his students were memorizing rather than understanding, and how he changed his teaching.
Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart
Psychology professor Marty Lobdell gives a one-hour lecture on how to study effectively, covering short focused sessions with breaks, study environment, note-taking and memory techniques.
RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms
An RSA Animate drawn from a Sir Ken Robinson talk arguing that current education systems are modeled on the industrial age.
Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
A full upload of Alan Kay's 1987 talk, with demos of several Smalltalk-era software systems and ideas about visual, kinesthetic and symbolic reasoning.
CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"
Kate Gregory argues at CppCon 2015 that C++ should be taught without starting from C: no char* strings, printf or raw arrays at first, with references before pointers.
LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15
Larry McEnerney of the University of Chicago Writing Program argues that good writing is defined by what readers value, not by rules or the writer's own ideas.
Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
Veritasium's Derek Muller gives a Perimeter Institute livestream on how AI might change teaching and learning.
The Expert Myth
Veritasium examines which experts have real expertise, drawing on chess research and work by Klein and Kahneman.
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.
The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
Josh Kaufman's TEDx talk argues that you can reach practical competence in almost any skill with about 20 hours of focused practice, rather than the 10,000 hours often quoted.
How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity
Chris Lonsdale presents a TEDx talk on how adults can learn a language in about six months, centering on immersion, comprehensible input and a practical learning methodology.
"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans
Felienne Hermans's Strange Loop keynote on the history and pedagogy of teaching programming.
The Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach
Eduardo Briceno gives a TEDx talk on mindset, contrasting fixed and growth views of ability.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
Destin of Smarter Every Day learns to ride a bicycle whose steering is reversed, taking about eight months, and compares it with how his young son learned much faster.
Salman Khan TED Talk 2011 (from ted.com)
Salman Khan's TED 2011 talk on Khan Academy.
Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
First lecture of MIT 6.00, an introductory computer science course taught in Python by Eric Grimson and John Guttag.
Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
Bret Victor's 2013 MIT Media Lab talk argues that the media we think with determine which thoughts are possible.
Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland
Bassist Victor Wooten argues that music should be learned the way children learn their first language: by immersion and play, without early correction or rigid academic instruction.
Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students
Alan Kay visits Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science in 2007 for an informal conversation with faculty and students.
Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)
An amateur animation of Tom Lehrer's satirical song New Math, which pokes fun at 1960s math teaching and subtraction in base 8.
Celestial Navigation (instruction video)
A roughly 45-minute vintage US military instructional film that gives a comprehensive overview of celestial navigation, covering sextant use and the theory behind lines of position.
Seymour Papert 1983
An eight-minute excerpt of a 1983 video featuring Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, on children learning programming and abstract ideas through embodied play.
Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
Sir Ken Robinson argues, with humor and stories such as that of choreographer Gillian Lynne, that education systems undermine creativity and should be changed.