Education & learning Videos Recommended on Hacker News (64)
Education & learning is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 64 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.
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16 mo on HNHow to Speak
9 mo on HNConfessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur
10 mo on HNMarty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart
9 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms
8 mo on HNAlan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
7 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"
6 mo on HNLEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15
6 mo on HNVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
5 mo on HNThe Expert Myth
6 mo on HNThe Biggest Myth In Education
6 mo on HNThe first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
5 mo on HNHow to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity
5 mo on HN"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans
4 mo on HNThe Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach
3 mo on HNThe Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
4 mo on HNSalman Khan TED Talk 2011 (from ted.com)
4 mo on HNLec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
3 mo on HNMusic as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland
3 mo on HNAlan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students
3 mo on HNTom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)
3 mo on HNCelestial Navigation (instruction video)
3 mo on HNSeymour Papert 1983
3 mo on HNDo schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
3 mo on HNThe Classroom Only Works for One Kid in the Room
3 mo on HNHow government programs drive up college tuitions
3 mo on HNMaking Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
3 mo on HNThe call to learn | Clifford Stoll
3 mo on HNDenmark's Forest Kindergartens
2 mo on HNGet Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
2 mo on HNKhan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos
3 mo on HNSeymour Papert
2 mo on HNJournalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" | E1039
2 mo on HNRethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
2 mo on HNWhy Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs
2 mo on HNThe Chinese Student Crisis
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Mentioned in HN threads about education & learning, though never formally recommended:
Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge · Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development · "Debate" American Style: Our Top Orators in Action · Star Trek 2009 Vulcan School · Dr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon · The Most Persistent Myth · Why Do You Make People Look Stupid? · Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike · On Mathematical Maturity (1) Thomas Garrity