[gtvwill]

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Honestly can't wait. Feed me info in dopamine adjusted methods. My spicy meatball brain finds old methods boring af and an absolute chore. Can learn at 10x with the new ways. Much like the meme watch a 4hr movie in one go? Meh. Feed me a 10 hour movie in 14 40ish min episodes? Hell yeah!

Education needs to strap itself in and get with the times. No point holding onto the old ways just because it's what we did as kids. Wanna feed em a 60 min lecture? Give em 30 to 60 small clips of high interest action!

[sourcepluck]

> Can learn at 10x with the new ways

Can consume at 10x with the new ways

[tgv]

I don't think there's much evidence you'll learn a lot that way, and certainly not 10 times as much as someone who hasn't been turned into a "spicy meatball" by a social media addiction.

> Give em 30 to 60 small clips of high interest action!

That's such a glib remark. How do you propose to make 30 to 60 small clips per teaching hour? There's over 1200 of those per year. Shortest path through school is 12 years. Good luck making 500,000 of those clips for "what's the capital of Kenia?"

And I'm fairly sure that once you're exposed to them, they'll get boring pretty quickly, and the effect will be nil.

In case you need any more conviction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5RsaOOsZFk

[gtvwill]

I was a spicy meatball before social media even existed.

It's why it took me 7 years to complete the last 30% of my two degrees. I got bored and went and worked full time in heavy industry. Pretty sure I had adhd well before I even started uni. Fairly sure I was born with it rather than it being a learned condition.

Also Im not sure if the shortest path through school is the goal either. I'm in my late 30s now and I still learn new things every day and still regularly consume education materials every week. I don't ever plan to stop. How arrogant must you be to think you should stop learning once school is over? Hell I've learnt stuff post school that other students learnt in school. I studied business they studied science.

I've done a huge amount of learning in trades and honestly 60 second videos have taught me over a few cumulative hours as many tricks as a decade in construction has.

On the job you only learn what your exposed to and what the people around you know. 60 second videos from anyone anywhere can literally teach me anything because it's not limited to just who I am able to be exposed to now in this minute today.

Hell I've learnt skills from shorts fellas who have spent decades in industries haven't learnt. Stuff that's valuable and saves time. It's all about exposure. Expose yourself to more, learn more. Lectures are slow and exposure is limited when it's just you and whoever the education source deemed suitable to be your teacher.

[michaelt]

> How do you propose to make 30 to 60 small clips per teaching hour?

Well, we're discussing an article about AI-based "PDF to Brainrot" tools that overlay textbooks on minecraft videos.

I don't know if the tools achieve their stated goals - but the tools do seem to exist.

[poulpy123]

> No point holding onto the old ways just because it's what we did as kids.

Yes I'm sure that killing the brain of children will have no adverse consequences

[sabbaticaldev]

that would only bring them on par with the current generation that killed their brain with television

[Iulioh]

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Feed me a 10 hour movie in 14 40ish min episodes? Hell yeah!

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I can't get myself to watch a film but will watch an entire 12ep anime in a day...

I'm fucked.