@Univext
This guy is good. He should create his own YouTube channel.
@VirtualRiot
Hey Perimeter Institute, I love this talk a lot and am able to get rid of the audio crackling & artifacts for you if you want. I’m an audio engineer and would love to do this free of charge of course.
@JaredOwen
Incredible - Derek you are very talented. Loved listening to this talk. Gives me good perspective on AI
@davidclelliott
My college calculus professor had a really good way to keep us engaged in class. Randomly during the semester, at the start of class, we were handed a 10 question pop quiz only covereing material taught the previous day. We might get as many as 15 pop quizes total. Then, at the end of the semester he would take the 10 best scores and substitue them for our lowest major test score. So, all we had to do was keep up every day, and potentialy replace a bombed test score with a 100. That was a huge incentive at least for me!
@AvoidMissteps
One kid nailed it with an amazing question. The most important skill that humans should have now and in the so called AI world of future is Asking the right questions
@Ekdhyeyaclassses
I run a small coaching institute in New Delhi, India and most children of higher grades that show up at my institute for help, have already had some kind of a MOOC platform subscription (which are or will be supported by AI), yet they have come to this great realization, that they need a human mentor. My assessment is this, the problem isn't about how tech can help "deliver" education, the problem is who would "inspire" the children to pursue learning, tech can deliver once you "pick up and pursue" but who would inspire you to "pick up"? Who would share their very human failures and not just perfection with these children?
@aruphore355
One of the very few talks on how to actually educate that really makes tremendous sense. Thanks.
@tanmaysinghchauhan8951
To anyone looking to dive deeper into the topics Derek touched upon, here're some book recs: • Deliberate practice – Peak by Eric Anderson • Upskilling (in any niche) – Ultralearning and HTGBAA by Scott Young • Long-term discipline in mastery – Grit by Angela Duckworth
@singlesourcestudios4084
I love what Derek has done throughout his Veritasium career. He inspires curiosity and I have learn't so much. Very grateful. <3
@edgerokoth7234
the argument on chunking absolutely incredible
@batcryalok
Einstein would possibly not be a very good teacher for most of the students. Teaching requires more than personal brilliance.
@JK91IN
Thank you for showcasing the insights from one of the best science educators of our time. We can't scale quality education by automation, we need more of teachers like Derek.
@MagikosEksMaikhina
"The world is full of heavy objects, but how many of us are ripped?" is such a good line.
@Joachim1010
I like how Derek doesn't just give generic answers to questions he doesn't fully understand, but asks for clarifications to give really spot on answers.
@ajklinkhamer6195
One additional thing about learning that was mentioned implicitly is emotion. It is my experience that real learning and mastery only comes with emotion. The emotion of 'Wow, thát is how it works!' and 'Ah, now I finally got it!" or the experimental setup that finally work the way I wanted it to work. If such emotions arise during learning, whether in class or while working in a book or using AI, that is what it's about. Emotion is an enormous multiplier for learning and remembering. The things I really remember are connected to emotions.
That is also the added value of a good teacher: the emotion that is conveyed in explaining the subject. Imagine this Youtube talk being transcribed and read back by a computerized voice. Same content, but absolutely no effect to be expected. The difference is the conviction, the emotion that Derek brings to us. That is what separates good teachers from bad ones: enthusiasm, emotion.
Also, on-line learning can create such experience, whether it is a Veritasium video or an interactive approach like Brilliant. But most often, out needs human being.
@aresaurelian
"Do another one. And another! We love it." - Most encouraging words for learning. On the question about how to make people thrilled about things they cannot understand: read the classic philosophers, and feel the joy of learning perspectives in life and of the cosmos of just being.
@miguel550
Great presentation and questions! I rarely comment on this platform, but this really caught my attention. Thanks Veritasium and Perimeter Institute.
@TheForbiddenDance
The problem with education is that the incentive isn't to learn it's to pass the class. That's why having AI do the work is attractive to people. That's what needs to be fixed. It's clear that the bias of existing educators that the existing system is ideal is a huge contributor to that problem. Schools don't exist for learning. They are businesses and part of the business is to give grades. Students don't exist to learn. They exist to get the best grade possible by any means. You want to fix education? Change that.
@Ren10ten-MT
This articulated something extremely complex in such a coherent/complete way I feel like I just gained ten years of experience in an hour. Thanks for everything 💓
@theves3040