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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by Neywiny »

mardifoufs wrote: post #113
Neywiny wrote: post #92

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Early on he made fun of people who wore masks. I'd watched almost every video for years before that but as one of many impacted by others not taking covid seriously, I went cold turkey.

Tbh it's fine to make fun of that, as long as it's not insulting or conspirational. I've seen tons of humour about masks and mask wearers in the past few years, which makes sense considering how widespread masks were. It's not about taking COVID seriously or not imo, but I guess it depends on one's sense of humour. The way some people who took COVID very seriously acted was very funny, regardless of intentions. Still…

People deal with grief differently and that's ok, but for me it meant cutting out people who made fun of things that would've kept more of my family alive (I also stopped laughing at covidiot memes). If everyone masked & vaxxed, we could've done so much better. But when public figures turn it into a "thing", it doesn't help anyone. I won't be able to find the video but I do remember AvE making very toxic masculinity comments about masks. Just wasn't what I needed at the time. I'm sure if I hadn't seen that specific part I would still be watching him.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by skhunted »

a1j9o94 wrote: post #140
skhunted wrote: post #127

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What are those valid alternatives that work at scale for a majority of the population?

One example that comes to mind is Kahn academy. They've built out new pedagogical methods. There's also Unacademy a company I'm sure has helped millions of people learn new things.

Khan Academy uses lectures.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by dang »

wyager wrote: post #13
patcon wrote: post #4

Omg I would love to make an explainer on bridging algorithms[1] with this tool! I've been a huge fan of their use in participatory democracy processes since 2016 (using tools like Pol.is), and have wanted to make a contribution to increasing literacy around the foundational math involved Had I known about Manim back when his Summer of Math Exposition[2] was happening, I def would have dived in! [1]: https://bridging.…

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"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by skhunted »

ChadNauseam wrote: post #135
skhunted wrote: post #128

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The vast majority of students never ask, “what if…” The vast majority just want to know the mechanics of doing the problems well enough to pass the test. At the time a student is taking Calculus 1 they don’t ask questions about why it works. They just want to know, for instance, the rules of differentiation. Later in life, when they have intellectually matured, videos like 3Blue1Brown are interesting and fascinating.…

Those students will not learn no matter what form of pedagogy you use. But 3blue1brown lectures are great for those who do want to learn

Yes. But in the classroom most students don’t want to learn. Hence my statement that it wouldn’t work in the classroom.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by skhunted »

nkrisc wrote: post #137
skhunted wrote: post #72

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Ah, that must be why math literacy is ubiquitous.

Here’s a thought for you. What percentage of the population wants to be mathematically literate given the amount of effort needed to gain that literacy? In my 30 years of teaching math at the college level the anecdotal evidence I have is that this number is quite low. Why do you think the number of mathematically literate people should be significantly higher than what it is?

What methods of teaching will work for those who don’t want to do the work to be mathematically literate?

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by skhunted »

wtallis wrote: post #134
skhunted wrote: post #131

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What’s wild is people who haven’t taught thinking they know better than people who do teach.

Are you trying to imply that you have some teaching experience of your own? You're doing an incredibly bad job of establishing your credibility in this thread. Try being less combative and providing some substantive explanations for why you're so strongly convinced that there's no room for improvement over the status quo. In particular, I'm curious how you come to the conclusion that high-quality video content cannot…

..why you're so strongly convinced that there's no room for improvement over the status quo.

I didn’t make this claim. I said that videos like 3Blue1Brown’s videos would not work in the classroom for most students. I further said that there was a reason things are done the way they are.

Imagine going to a place of business and seeing people doing their job. A job you’ve never done before. You start giving advice on what they should do. Most likely your views would not carry much weight or be worth much consideration.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by swyx »

fb03 wrote: post #108

Very nice library, and nice to see he face behind the channel too. I now understand why it's 3blue1brown (wasn't aware that he has heterochromia in one eye at the ratio of his channel name, cool!)

it's a very groovy mutation.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by GenerocUsername »

ravetcofx wrote: post #29
cruffle_duffle wrote: post #22

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I feel like quite a few of the content creators I watch are starting to “show their face”, though the big one that comes to mind is the Real Engineering guy. A few of his newest videos have had him acting a bit like a host, interviewer and narrator. It’s also weird when some of these creators swap with somebody else, like veratasium has had his producer do some of the videos instead. The big reveal would be AvE.

I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

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