Using YouTube as an education resource

[inuka00123]

I like the idea there is a anything anywhere source to help learn things that are hard to understand, for example I did not understood anything my school taught, then I went on youtube like every time and thought, why not look up on youtube, and I found a video and understood it, but I still don't like going through algorithmically choosen videos one by one to understand something, like a child watching youtube kids, just watching anything interesting coming to the view. I know this is information age, where you can access anything from your mobile phone or anything with screen and internet connection. I much prefer analog systems like books and physical teaching, do you guys do the same thing? how does youtube and other internet sources help your learning?

 

[jedishrfu]

Youtube is a mixed bag as far as science and math videos go. Some are great like:
- Veritaseum ( Science/Math)
- 3brown1blue (math)
- Smarter Everyday (Engineering)
- Numberphile (Math)
- Computerphile (Computer Science)
...

While others are entertaining, and some are just bad. I pick them by the YouTube channel author as listed above.

For math, there's MathIsPower4u.com, where math videos are posted on YouTube. The MathIsPower4U.com website features curated lists of their videos organized by math subjects and specific topics within each subject, offering over 5000 videos covering mathematics through first-year college.