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Web Edjeecation and Internet Discoveries

FlayFlay Registered User regular
edited May 2011 in Social Entropy++
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

The internet has an absolutely mind-boggling, eyeball-melting amount of information. In 2009 the Guardian reported that around 497 billion gigabytes of data, a number likely to have grown significantly by today, spread across some 155 million webpages. Even after subtracting the large proportion of that is likely to be porn or facebook, that's still a lot of information. Sometimes we even learn things from it.

Take TED talks for example, one of my favourite places on the internet. Basically these guys host conferences all over the world where a bunch of really interesting people come and give lectures on whatever topic they specialise in, which would be pretty cool within itself, but then they go and broadcast these lectures on the internet so anyone can watch them absolutely for free.

They're even on youtube

I like to have these playing in the background while I'm working in photoshop or whatver. The internet is a really powerful tool for educating people, even though right now a lot of them may not have access to it, the number (I believe) is set to quadruple within the next few years. The amount of information we have access to completely blows anything we've had before out of the water.

It's so completely new that we can't even begin to predict the impacts it might have for the future

So what has the internet taught you lately? Where'd ya get it? How do you feel about the internet as a learning tool? Could the internet one day replace school teachers? These are things that I want to know.

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    Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    http://www.khanacademy.org/

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6eAV91E-8A

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    George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8


    Pro pick to use in a classroom.

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    ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That first statistic seems incredibly misleading. 25% of India's population is greater than the United States', so when you say "the largest IQ" it's the exact same percent of people. India's 25% of lowest IQ would also be greater than the population of the US.

    Unless I'm misinterpreting or something.

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Holy shit I just remembered about How Stuff Works.

    I haven't been to this site for years.
    Zay wrote: »
    That first statistic seems incredibly misleading. 25% of India's population is greater than the United States', so when you say "the largest IQ" it's the exact same percent of people. India's 25% of lowest IQ would also be greater than the population of the US.

    Unless I'm misinterpreting or something.

    That is a valid point.

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    HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Cracked.com is where I go for my higher learning needs.

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Macro9 wrote: »
    http://www.khanacademy.org/

    That... Is really damn cool! This is exactly the thing I hoped the internet would produce.

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    101101 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    TED is seriously awesome

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2011
    If you are in the billions, why use a gigabyte at all as a unit of measurement.

    And in the education thread no less.

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    wheres tlb
    In Phillip Wylie's When Worlds Collide (1932), Earth is first devastated, and then destroyed by "Bronson Alpha", a gas giant-sized rogue planet, orbited by "Bronson Beta", an earth-sized satellite. Fortunately, advance warning enables several groups of survivors to escape to Bronson Beta, whose orbit maps onto that of the destroyed Earth, and is torn away from its former primary by the gravitational impact of the Bronson Alpha/Earth collision. In the 1951 cinematic incarnation, Bronson Alpha was reimagined as a dwarf star and renamed "Bellus", while Bronson Beta was designated "Zyra."

    also I was at the place where they got the data for this last weekend


    uhh learning stuff... I mostly just use wikipedia and lecture notes from whatever universities that pop up on google for actual school stuff

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    MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

    Same music and everything. I worked as a "Social Media Marketer" last summer and I came into work they showed me that video and then said get to work.

    It was exciting for like a week and then you realize what a crock of shit it is unless you are like a mega-corporation and then the depression sets in.

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    If you are in the billions, why use a gigabyte at all as a unit of measurement.

    And in the education thread no less.

    I don't think many people would know what the heck I was talking about if I said 473 976.135 petabytes and 462.86732 exabytes doesn't sound that impressive.

    Also now I know what a petabyte and an exabyte is. Learning!

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2011
    Terror bites

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    godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I just recently learned about the OpenCourseWare Consortium (Even though it's been around for about a decade). It really is amazing how much stuff we could learn at our computers...while we all instead squander our time making dick jokes on the forums :rotate:

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    [Michael][Michael] Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I learned how to make stuff out of wood thanks to the internet, though I think my local library would also have that sort of information.

    But I like to think the bed frame and desk I made are much nicer thanks to the internet. It's kind of nice having a bunch of old books on building stuff readily available when I'm trying to figure out how to make what I want.

    Also, learning to program was probably a lot easier with the internet. It probably took longer to come up with solutions when you couldn't just google "what does segmentation fault mean?"

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    THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    you can play snake on youtube videos

    that is the extent to my knowledge

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    DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Flay wrote: »
    Macro9 wrote: »
    http://www.khanacademy.org/

    That... Is really damn cool! This is exactly the thing I hoped the internet would produce.

    Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd bookmarked because that is awesome

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Flay wrote: »
    It's so completely new that we can't even begin to predict the impacts it might have for the future

    I had never really thought about this, but he makes some excellent points here. Thank you for posting this.

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    ukiyo eukiyo e Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I broke the glass screen on my cellphone when I was drunk on Friday night. Verizon won't fix it, they just told me to buy a new $500 phone. I said F that, went home, and did 5 minutes of googling. Now I have a new screen in the mail for $27 and a youtube video tutorial on how to take my phone apart. Thanks, internet!

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    godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Oh yes, the amount of money the internet saves us in home repairs! Protip: If you have issues with an LCD or projection TV (the bulb blows out or whatever), you can either buy a several-hundred dollar bulb and repair, or buy the bulb on the cheap and repair it yourself rather simply! That's why my family did, and it worked out great.

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    SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Macro9 wrote: »
    http://www.khanacademy.org/

    Not gonna lie, I thought this was about star trek. The reality is very cool though.

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    There's an Australian TV show called Hungry Beast that consistently produces really interesting videos, and yesterday they did an episode on the internet:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeyMPJusXzQ

    And check this out:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SuC6FcTfnU

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    Satanic JesusSatanic Jesus Hi, I'm Liam! with broken glassesRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    These guys do videos on chemistry, don't know how good they are since I just started watching them today.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SgYhzd5ehY&feature=channel_video_title
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qZycn7o7Po&feature=relmfu

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't know how I feel about a lot of stuff on The Escapist, but they do run a really good web series called Extra Credits, which is a series of lectures on game design and ethics/issues relating to games.

    This guy except somewhat better quality now

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE5cHe6c3s

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    FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    you can play snake on youtube videos

    that is the extent to my knowledge

    everybody stop everything and get me this.

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    George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    e: hold left.

    that math video was magical.

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    BorommakotBorommakot Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    How to cook in the classiest of manners.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTyotI3IHFQ

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    Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Koshian wrote: »
    Macro9 wrote: »
    http://www.khanacademy.org/

    their vid on communism is so goddamned embarrassing, i was surprised not to see BROUGHT TO YOU BUY THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION afterwards

    gonna make this the vid reply:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxcTdTNGhJI

    http://www.khanacademy.org/contribute

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    A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    What, contribute more than condescending snark?

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ted talks are amazing in everyway. I love what the internet can do and its great to see people using it as a tool. I've had a couple classes that used Ted talks in them, and I learned a lot of html and java back in highschool from the internet.

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I've never really taken any drawing classes, aside from highschool art classes. Pretty much everything I know about drawing came from the internet. That's pretty cool, thinking about it.

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    DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »
    What, contribute more than condescending snark?

    Unpossible!

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Oh hey, that Paradox of Choice video in the OP was actually a video we used in one of my classes

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    SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE5cHe6c3s
    Look Around You is AMAZING.

    Water is the best one and everyone should watch it.

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    DeicistDeicist Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    according to this:

    http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/2010-digital-universe-iview_5-4-10.pdf

    The latest report (26/04/2010) showed an approximate size for the 'digital universe' of 800,000 petabytes. A petabyte is a million gigabytes.

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I enjoy Math Doodles.

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    PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRRDIFNxoM&feature=related

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    FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I knew about the eight main planets that orbit the sun (and pluto), but I didn't know about Ceres, Sedna, Haumea, Eris, or Makemake.

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    yeah that's why calling pluto a planet would be dumb, we would then have about 30 or 40 planets in the solar system or something and that's just silly

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