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>>15713910
>literature board
>defending youtube videos as a learning resource
I'm not him, but hes right. Unless video demonstrations are essential to the content, any piece of writing beats a video. No one these days is capable of reading a textbook. People buy these $100 dollar textbooks for their classes so they can do the homework problems but when it comes to not knowing something instead of reading the fucking textbook for 5 minutes they go look for and rewatch 10+ minute videos purely because videos are more stimulating with distractions and encourage passiveness and discourage critical thinking. speeding up videos is not the same as being able to read at your own pace and is much more inconvenient, especially when the speaker themselves vary their speech speed already. Text can easily be referred to with detail after the fact, read and criticized with scrutiny down to the individual words, you don't have to fiddle with video speeds or pausing, its easily quoted and shared, you can do things like text searches on it, and you don't have distractions of colors, movement, sound, faces and gestures, etc. and your mind should be entirely occupied with the material.