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Education & learning Videos Recommended on Hacker News (73)

Education & learning is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 73 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 205 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Education: teaching methods, Khan Academy, learning how to learn, computers in education, Seymour Papert, Logo, constructionism, university system, school reform, AI tutoring, memory techniques.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on How to Speak: “drop what you're doing and watch it now” — an HN commenter, 2020.

16 mo on HN

How to Speak

MIT OpenCourseWare
17 HN recommender · 2020–2025
9 mo on HN

Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur

UMBCtube
9 HN recommender · 2009–2023
10 mo on HN

Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart

Pierce College District WA
6 HN recommender · 2015–2024
9 mo on HN

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

Royal Society of Arts
10 HN recommender · 2011–2026
8 mo on HN

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)

Kenneth Friedman
8 HN recommender · 2016–2023
7 mo on HN

CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"

CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
6 mo on HN

LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15

UChicago Social Sciences
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HN

Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
6 HN recommender · 2025–2026
5 mo on HN

The Expert Myth

Veritasium
6 HN recommender · 2022–2026
6 mo on HN

The Biggest Myth In Education

Veritasium
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
6 mo on HN

The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU

TEDx Talks
5 HN recommender · 2014–2024
5 mo on HN

How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity

TEDx Talks
5 HN recommender · 2014–2019
5 mo on HN

"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans

Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HN

The Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2014–2020
3 mo on HN

The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133

SmarterEveryDay
4 HN recommender · 2015–2025
4 mo on HN

Salman Khan TED Talk 2011 (from ted.com)

Khan Academy
4 HN recommender · 2011–2012
4 mo on HN

Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008

MIT OpenCourseWare
4 HN recommender · 2010–2012
4 mo on HN

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

Colin McDonnell
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HN

Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HN

Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students

CMU Robotics Institute
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)

Jared Khan
4 HN recommender · 2013–2025
3 mo on HN

Celestial Navigation (instruction video)

NathanielsCAD
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN

Seymour Papert 1983

Cynthia Solomon
3 HN recommender · 2014–2017
3 mo on HN

Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED

TED
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HN

The Classroom Only Works for One Kid in the Room

CGP Grey
3 HN recommender · 2013–2024
3 mo on HN

How government programs drive up college tuitions

Peter Schiff
3 HN recommender · 2010–2018
3 mo on HN

Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote

O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2017–2017
3 mo on HN

The call to learn | Clifford Stoll

TED
3 HN recommender · 2010–2025
3 mo on HN

Denmark's Forest Kindergartens

SBS Dateline
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HN

Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HN

Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos

Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HN

Seymour Papert

Seth Morabito
3 HN recommender · 2014–2017
2 mo on HN

Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" | E1039

This Week in Startups
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015

Infosys Foundation USA
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HN

Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs

HealthyGamerGG
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN

The Chinese Student Crisis

PolyMatter
2 HN recommender · 2022–2022