I would have thought it's obvious to anyone who has studied any subject in depth that you need to actively engage with the material. Books are great because they go at the pace that suits your learning and are easy to skip around. Video not so much.
The proposed replacements seem to be technology that takes some of the active role away from the student. That doesn't seem to me that it would be effective, as anything I've learned well has required I do that kind of active introspection. Off-loading it to a machine feels like it would harm my learning.
Also, very typical of software people to reach for software solutions. There is a much wider space that can be explored. Maybe that would be more fruitful?
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I would have thought it's obvious to anyone who has studied any subject in depth that you need to actively engage with the material. Books are great because they go at the pace that suits your learning and are easy to skip around. Video not so much.
The proposed replacements seem to be technology that takes some of the active role away from the student. That doesn't seem to me that it would be effective, as anything I've learned well has required I do that kind of active introspection. Off-loading it to a machine feels like it would harm my learning.
Also, very typical of software people to reach for software solutions. There is a much wider space that can be explored. Maybe that would be more fruitful?