Post by davesenesac on Oct 7, 2021 9:10:30 GMT -8
More of my time at home in recent months has been on free Youtube science E-learning videos. Most summers and early falls am busy with field work but this year's dry conditions and smoky skies ended that early. After any photography work, I spend considerable time post processing images, updating management Excel files, html coding, and updating my website. But that is only about half the calendar year. Decades ago spent a fair amount of leisure home time reading newspapers and magazines but in this era that is all on the Internet WWW. Now 4 years into senior retirement living alone, I spend little time watching TV, never video games, don't make time to read non-fiction, and have no crafts or hobbies other than science. The ski season will start soon whereupon (given snow haha) I may ski 2 or 3 days per week up at Tahoe with the rest of each week at home.
There are considerable advantages to E-Learning versus traditional learning via classrooms or books. Key advantage is it encourages multi-sensory learning that via neural plasticity form multiple cognitive brain connections. Seeing text spoken, hearing language spoken, visual animation of concepts especially those difficult to convey with mere words, ability to pause and rerun sequences multiple times, working problems after each short sections. The human race due to the Internet is undergoing a revolution in learning that is suddenly providing access to incredible resources for every person on the planet with access. Not only from top USA universities but from across the world. Note will recommend doing so on an actual sizeable monitor instead of small displays especially tiny smartphone displays.
www.mooc-list.com/
After starting yesterday watching the Professor Dave Explains "Introduction to Chemistry" series of 80 each short multimedia lectures, today will start at #22 and expect to finish in a few days. As someone that decades ago studied much via used dated college textbooks, I find his carefully structured short E-learning videos, each just a few minutes, exceptional for brushing up on these topics, and am learning many concepts I had never absorbed properly. Of course there are plenty of alternative learning sites though Dave Farina has it nailed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVhJ4TO8a-M&list=PLybg94GvOJ9EbbO2RXPWTUNIIE0C7hSfm&index=23
After finishing the above will move to his biochemistry series. Actually I had been weeks into neuroscience studies though paused when those subjects became a bit too deep with chemistry. There are also free university level lectures available by some of the best teachers in the world. Some subjects won't work effectively with pure lectures via E-learning, however the following is an example of one that will and I've watched Stanford's Robert Sapolsky lectures up to #17.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199
A good introduction of how effective and fun doing so is would be #14 Limbic System:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAOnSbDSaOw&list=PL150326949691B199&index=14
Before starting, bother to read some of the Youtube Comments to understand how strongly students rate them.
There are considerable advantages to E-Learning versus traditional learning via classrooms or books. Key advantage is it encourages multi-sensory learning that via neural plasticity form multiple cognitive brain connections. Seeing text spoken, hearing language spoken, visual animation of concepts especially those difficult to convey with mere words, ability to pause and rerun sequences multiple times, working problems after each short sections. The human race due to the Internet is undergoing a revolution in learning that is suddenly providing access to incredible resources for every person on the planet with access. Not only from top USA universities but from across the world. Note will recommend doing so on an actual sizeable monitor instead of small displays especially tiny smartphone displays.
www.mooc-list.com/
After starting yesterday watching the Professor Dave Explains "Introduction to Chemistry" series of 80 each short multimedia lectures, today will start at #22 and expect to finish in a few days. As someone that decades ago studied much via used dated college textbooks, I find his carefully structured short E-learning videos, each just a few minutes, exceptional for brushing up on these topics, and am learning many concepts I had never absorbed properly. Of course there are plenty of alternative learning sites though Dave Farina has it nailed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVhJ4TO8a-M&list=PLybg94GvOJ9EbbO2RXPWTUNIIE0C7hSfm&index=23
After finishing the above will move to his biochemistry series. Actually I had been weeks into neuroscience studies though paused when those subjects became a bit too deep with chemistry. There are also free university level lectures available by some of the best teachers in the world. Some subjects won't work effectively with pure lectures via E-learning, however the following is an example of one that will and I've watched Stanford's Robert Sapolsky lectures up to #17.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199
A good introduction of how effective and fun doing so is would be #14 Limbic System:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAOnSbDSaOw&list=PL150326949691B199&index=14
Before starting, bother to read some of the Youtube Comments to understand how strongly students rate them.