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.
Homeschooling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on homeschooling, focusing on how little regulation exists in many US states.
Let's use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan
Salman Khan explains why he created Khan Academy, a structured library of video lessons with interactive exercises.
Talk: Video Games and the Future of Education
Jonathan Blow gives a roughly 90-minute talk, followed by Q&A, on how video games could actually improve education, in contrast to what is currently being tried.
I'm Just a Bill (Schoolhouse Rock!)
The Schoolhouse Rock!
Incremental reading: Learning about nutrition from Wikipedia (SuperMemo 17)
A five-minute SuperMemo demo of incremental reading: importing a Wikipedia article on nutrition, extracting passages, making cloze deletions and finishing the item.
Exact Instructions Challenge PB&J Classroom Friendly | Josh Darnit
A family comedy video in which kids write instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a parent follows them with exact literalness, producing chaos.
The Reason Education Sucks
A five-minute clip of a George Carlin routine arguing that the education system is designed to produce compliant citizens rather than critical thinkers.
Sesame Street: 12 And Pinball Animation
A one-minute Sesame Street animation of a counting pinball game focused on the number 12, set to Pointer Sisters music.
Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
A 15-minute clip of linguist Stephen Krashen discussing language acquisition, drawn from the 1980s.
I can't ride a bike. How fast can Mike Boyd teach me?
Tom Scott, who never learned to ride a bike, gets lessons from Mike Boyd, a YouTuber known for learning skills quickly.
Student Debt: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver covers student debt and the for-profit colleges that push students into it, including Corinthian-style schools and ITT Tech.
The Science of Thinking
A Veritasium explainer on how the brain works and how we learn.
Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Andy Matuschak on how he learns, why memorization matters for understanding, and why most learning tools fail.
Tomorrow's World: Nellie the School Computer 15 February 1969 - BBC
A 1969 BBC Tomorrow's World segment about Nellie, a school computer used by pupils at Forest Grammar School to solve equations and play music.
Stephen Krashen: Language Acquisition and Comprehensible Input
A lecture from the 1980s by linguist Stephen Krashen on how people acquire language.
Richard Feynman: "What's the name of a bird?"
A short clip from a 1973 NOVA episode in which Richard Feynman recalls his father teaching him that knowing the name of a bird in many languages tells you nothing about the bird.
Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development
A five-minute C-SPAN clip of Dr.
The Most Persistent Myth
Veritasium argues that every new technology, from motion pictures to TV, was predicted to revolutionize education and none did.
Star Trek 2009 Vulcan School
A short clip from Star Trek (2009) showing young Spock learning at a Vulcan school with an immersive, machine-driven teaching system.
Dr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon
A short clip of Michio Kaku arguing that America's weak education system leaves a shortage of high-skilled tech workers, so H-1B visas bring in talent.
Why Do You Make People Look Stupid?
Veritasium answers criticism that his videos make people look stupid, explaining that teaching must address learners' misconceptions and that holding common beliefs inconsistent with science is not stupidity.
"Debate" American Style: Our Top Orators in Action
A short clip from the 2014 college debate championship, posted by a commentator who criticizes the winning performance as not being a real debate.
Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge
A short excerpt from a 1973 Yorkshire TV film in which Richard Feynman explains that knowing the name of something is not the same as knowing it.
Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike
Mike Boyd takes up Smarter Every Day's challenge to learn to ride the Backwards Brain Bike, a bicycle whose steering is inverted, and rides 50 meters.