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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What grade? I teach kindergarten and so many kids are brain damaged from too much technology. Their eyes can barely focus on a picture in a book or on words. They haven't been able to watch a short animated movie for many years. [/quote]

It was a college course. [/quote]

I don’t know, OP.  I teach at a medical school, and teaching is very different than it was in 2010.  Students aren’t going to listen to you just present the facts anymore.  No matter how good you are at distilling down complex information and making it digestible, there is someone on YouTube doing it better.  
You will have better luck if you make the class more interactive and expect they will get the fact-based data somewhere else.  [/quote]

Does that not seem crazy to you?[/quote]

No.  It doesn’t seem crazy.  If I want to talk about psychopharmacology, I do a case presentation and answer questions about people I have seen in clinic.  Maybe talk about it in part of a panel discussion/Q&A with patients who have schizophrenia.  I don’t talk about dopamine pathways anymore.  I tell them it’s going to be on the exam and put up a YouTube link that they can go to.  
Why would they listen to me if they can listen to someone who teaches it better?   If the goal is to teach students and not to stroke your own ego, it’s perfectly reasonable.[/quote]

Oh, that's a little different than what you originally seemed to describe.  You're using pre-screened videos as a replacement for text books/articles not sending them into the wild west of youtube on their own.[/quote]

Not really.  These are things that the students previously found on their own.  And if a student finds something better, most of the class will know about it before the lecturer finds out about it.

This all changed 5-8 years ago because students stopped coming to traditional classes.

I will say that I’m surprised that there isn’t a professionally done video curriculum being sold to colleges and medical schools right now, the way that textbooks had been sold.  [/quote]

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