Book or Video as learning tool

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"A picture is worth a thousand words"

A NTSC video plays 30 frames/pictures per second, does it mean 2997 words per 100 seconds?

You can teach illiterate person how to become a skydiver with videos ONLY.
(or a foreigner who doesn't speak your language)

You can teach literate person to skydive with books only.
That's a known fact (for any activity)

but how different is video learning? It helps a lot, does it add? Is it poorer?
Can it maybe prevail in times to come?

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poll #3 is not "reading about it on iPod"

What goes around, comes later.

[Harmless 0]

Different people learn in different ways...

I learned to juggle by reading a book and looking at pictures. I studied the SIM for months while flying in the tunnel before I did my first skydive.

I have a hard time following people when they talk unless I look away from and visualize what they are saying.

Audio, visual, and tactile are senses for learning. I do best with visual/tactile

"Damn you Gravity, you win again"

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Can book be a substitute for instructor who is addressing you directly?

Video might be just the right substitute.
It would be great if video could ask you to repeat what you've just learned.

What goes around, comes later.

[BillyVance 35]

Just as long as the book or video is not your primary method of learning. Kinda like the karate kid in the beginning....

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[faulknerwn 38]

I'm a geek so I'd take a book over a video any day of the week. I work well with 1 on 1 instruction but most classes go so insanely painfully slow for me I fall asleep. My FJC 16 years ago took 2 hours cuz it was one-on-one and the instructor didn't insist on going slow when I understood stuff.

[MakeItHappen 15]

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"A picture is worth a thousand words"

A NTSC video plays 30 frames/pictures per second, does it mean 2997 words per 100 seconds?

You can teach illiterate person how to become a skydiver with videos ONLY.
(or a foreigner who doesn't speak your language)

You can teach literate person to skydive with books only.
That's a known fact (for any activity)

but how different is video learning? It helps a lot, does it add? Is it poorer?
Can it maybe prevail in times to come?

The Explanation and Demonstration parts of learning may be augmented by video and or book.
The Trial and Practice needs actual 'doing' the activity and getting feedback for correction.

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Make It Happen
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[mircan 0]

Just ask me and I`ll explain it to you. With video.

You should jump more.

dudeist skydiver #42