Also forgetting the part where every question about how to do something results in a 5m video. For fuck sakes, just write the list of steps out for me.
Example: How do I reset the oil service indicator on my vehicle?
Ugh, the number of YouTube channels that should be blogs is infuriating. The last thing I need is to watch someone slowly type out their code into an editor, and then be unable to copy the text because it’s a video.
It’s the modern equivalent of cookbook recipes. I don’t need to know about how your grandpa used to fix tractors and inspired three generations of mechanics, I want to know how to spray starter fluid in my vehicle’s air intake.
Teaching young people (18-23ish), I regret to say that many people prefer the video. I don’t get it, especially since it’s not like they’re not strong readers- they text as much as anyone else.
Social norms? Attention span? Actual reading comprehension? It makes no sense, they prefer a 90 minute recording of the course over a study guide I give out with the same stuff, and wonder why they have no free time…
My only examples are games because I have not finished my coffee but in say Zelda where I need to physically go somewhere I’d prefer a video instead of going left right right straight left too confusing for me
For about everything else I prefer text, for example I got stuck on a boss in v rising so I look up a text guide to learn the move set a little better because I’d rather have that knowledge of what’s going to happen rather than seeing it step by step
Also lets me skip past and ignore the BS
I also like text cus it’s easier to take in for me, I can re read the exact part I need to over and over but sometimes I get annoyed need to watch the 8 second segment preceding the part I didn’t catch 60 times in a row
It does depend on the person, and the text readers do rather well in my courses. Visual aids help, although I teach stats and social psych, so the most visuals that help are diagrams at best.
Games though, sure, sometimes. Snapshots usually suffice for me, though I haven’t needed a guide for a puzzle in a long long time. (Older games are a lot more “guide damn it” than newer ones without missables).
Also forgetting the part where every question about how to do something results in a 5m video. For fuck sakes, just write the list of steps out for me.
Example: How do I reset the oil service indicator on my vehicle?
Answer: hold x button for 10 seconds
Ugh, the number of YouTube channels that should be blogs is infuriating. The last thing I need is to watch someone slowly type out their code into an editor, and then be unable to copy the text because it’s a video.
It’s the modern equivalent of cookbook recipes. I don’t need to know about how your grandpa used to fix tractors and inspired three generations of mechanics, I want to know how to spray starter fluid in my vehicle’s air intake.
Teaching young people (18-23ish), I regret to say that many people prefer the video. I don’t get it, especially since it’s not like they’re not strong readers- they text as much as anyone else.
Social norms? Attention span? Actual reading comprehension? It makes no sense, they prefer a 90 minute recording of the course over a study guide I give out with the same stuff, and wonder why they have no free time…
I understand it if there’s some mechanical thing that’s easier to see in video. Otherwise no, I hate it.
I think it’s just what they’re used to, same as us preferring written instructions. People like things that are familiar.
As an 18-23 person for me it depends
My only examples are games because I have not finished my coffee but in say Zelda where I need to physically go somewhere I’d prefer a video instead of going left right right straight left too confusing for me
For about everything else I prefer text, for example I got stuck on a boss in v rising so I look up a text guide to learn the move set a little better because I’d rather have that knowledge of what’s going to happen rather than seeing it step by step
Also lets me skip past and ignore the BS
I also like text cus it’s easier to take in for me, I can re read the exact part I need to over and over but sometimes I get annoyed need to watch the 8 second segment preceding the part I didn’t catch 60 times in a row
It does depend on the person, and the text readers do rather well in my courses. Visual aids help, although I teach stats and social psych, so the most visuals that help are diagrams at best.
Games though, sure, sometimes. Snapshots usually suffice for me, though I haven’t needed a guide for a puzzle in a long long time. (Older games are a lot more “guide damn it” than newer ones without missables).