When I use the internet to learn, I don’t want to have to spend 2 minutes watching an advert, then try to decipher an accent I can barely understand whilst a 15 year old speed runs the task whilst seemingly skipping crucial steps in a video.
I want the steps written down. Maybe with diagrams.
I’m old. Learning is hard enough.
This has come up a few times and I agree: I vastly prefer text in most cases.
However! I learned that something like half of US adults cannot read at a 6th grade level.
Everyone here, on a heavy text based forum, is probably able to read English. But for a lot of people who probably aren’t going to post here, reading can be stressful, frustrating, and embarrassing.
So that sucks. We should probably be investing in education instead of whatever idiocy venture capital is setting on fire this week.
imo education is the single most important investment we can make, and we’re failing in spectacular fashion.
Yes totally, but counter to that there are still an awful lot of places where internet is borderline dialup and access to information is still primarily text based. Furthermore, translating text under these conditions is considerably easy than translating audio.
Investing in education on a global level, as opposed to a US level is a question of access and infrastructure.
Making it a video would just decrease the reading levels over time wouldn’t it? Also this may sound bad, but there isn’t much content out there a 6th grade reading level can’t decipher. Instructions aren’t about breaking down what meaning they really might have had. I don’t need to figure out the underlying meaning of animal farm during “loosen 6 10mm lugnuts” or “enter dsregcmd /status and check the provision status at the bottom.”. With each line being discussed I don’t need to examine the underlying text. Most everything in life is able to be done at a reading level of 6th grade.
Wish it were higher, but that isn’t our biggest failure in education right now in my opinion.