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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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 HNVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
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
4 mo on HNSalman Khan TED Talk 2011 (from ted.com)
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
3 mo on HNMusic as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland
3 mo on HNDo schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
3 mo on HNMaking Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
3 mo on HNThe call to learn | Clifford Stoll
2 mo on HNGet Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
2 mo on HNRethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
2 mo on HNLet's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan
2 mo on HNConrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
2 mo on HNAlan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas
2 mo on HNSICP: o fim de uma era
2 mo on HNDuolingo -- the next chapter in human computation | Luis von Ahn | TEDxCMU 2011
2 mo on HN"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)
2 mo on HNHow AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED
2 mo on HNLet's use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan
2 mo on HNTalk: Video Games and the Future of Education
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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