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Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos

2012-10-19 · Hank, Derek Muller, Brady Haran, Vi Hart, Henry Reich, Michael Stevens, Destin Sandlin · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · reflection essay

At an event for educational online video near YouTube's offices, Hank argues that educational video is a different value proposition from entertainment and could change the world, and introduces fellow educational creators he urges viewers to subscribe to.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; smoky hotel a short walk from YouTube; attending an event for educational online video and giving a talk

  • ★ Hank says he woke in a hotel room smelling of cigarette smoke and cleaning fluid, chosen because it is a very short walk to YouTube's offices. — 00:00:00 · YouTube
  • ★★ Hank is attending an event for people who make and encourage educational online video, where he was allowed to give a short talk. — 00:00:00 · YouTube

00:00:29 — Toilet paper as innovation in an old industry; Hank's talk: educational video is a different value proposition from entertainment

  • ★ Hank playfully offers something he found in the bathroom, which 'completely made the rolly thing obsolete', as proof that even toilet-paper making still has room for innovation. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ In his talk Hank argues that educational video is a completely different value proposition for its viewer than entertaining video. — 00:00:29 · education
  • ★★★ Hank thinks educational online video has the potential power to change the face of the world. (hedged) — 00:00:58 · education

00:00:58 — Fellow educational creators introduce themselves: Derek Muller, Brady Haran, Vi Hart, Henry Reich, Michael of Vsauce, Destin of Smarter Every Day

  • ★★ Hank says he is happy to do educational video with John and many other great creators some viewers may not know, and shows some of them. — 00:00:58 · John Green
  • ★ Derek Muller explains his channel name Veritasium as 'the element of truth': veritas is the Latin word for truth, plus the traditional '-ium' ending. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Brady Haran introduces himself as a UK-based video journalist who runs several channels, including Periodic Videos, Numberphile, Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Destin shows Hank a spring that is stretched and wadded up and then, once heated, recovers its shape ('It's alive!'). (playful) — 00:02:14

00:02:41 — Destin's memory-spring demo; Hank asks viewers to subscribe to the educational channels, Crash Course and SciShow

  • ★★ Hank says Smarter Every Day is going to do a whole video on the memory spring, and he is looking forward to it. — 00:02:41
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to subscribe to Smarter Every Day, Vi Hart, Vsauce, Veritasium, MinutePhysics and Brady Haran's channels, and to Crash Course and SciShow. — 00:02:41 · Crash Course, SciShow

00:03:25 — Revolutionizing how and what we teach; thanks to the supporting community; sign-off

  • ★★★ Nothing excites Hank more right now than revolutionizing how and what we teach; he thinks he and John are part of that innovation and lucky to be there. (hedged) — 00:03:25 · education, John Green
  • ★★ Hank says they are even luckier to have a community of people who support that work, and thanks everyone who does. — 00:03:25 · Nerdfighteria

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