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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2 mo on HNInner Game of Tennis
2 mo on HNLet's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan
2 mo on HNR. P. Feynman on the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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 HNLecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)
2 mo on HNSICP: o fim de uma era
2 mo on HNHow Children Develop Perfect Pitch
2 mo on HNExact Instructions Challenge - THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit
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 HNHomeschooling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
2 mo on HNLet's use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan
2 mo on HNTalk: Video Games and the Future of Education
1 mo on HNI'm Just a Bill (Schoolhouse Rock!)
1 mo on HNIncremental reading: Learning about nutrition from Wikipedia (SuperMemo 17)
1 mo on HNExact Instructions Challenge PB&J Classroom Friendly | Josh Darnit
1 mo on HNThe Reason Education Sucks
1 mo on HNSesame Street: 12 And Pinball Animation
1 mo on HNStephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
1 mo on HNI can't ride a bike. How fast can Mike Boyd teach me?
1 mo on HNStudent Debt: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
1 mo on HNThe Science of Thinking
1 mo on HNAndy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
1 mo on HNTomorrow's World: Nellie the School Computer 15 February 1969 - BBC
1 mo on HNStephen Krashen: Language Acquisition and Comprehensible Input
1 mo on HNRichard Feynman: "What's the name of a bird?"
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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