tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post8065061312515385135..comments2023-11-14T11:44:10.396-05:00Comments on The Legion of Decency: Lazy Sunday # 91: Trying To Keep Upjimhenshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815834271470133872noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-47829856149274252562009-11-03T11:47:53.005-05:002009-11-03T11:47:53.005-05:00I dunno. To me it felt more like someone was tryin...I dunno. To me it felt more like someone was trying to sell me something. It's a pitch presentation that tries to overwhelm you with bits of data and doesn't give you the chance to see what it means in context.<br /><br />I watched this video and can no longer remember the bite-sized facts contained therein. I do remember being annoyed when a series of "facts" were thrown at me that were all about a number that was increasing for each year. They are putting this much effort into the graphics, but putting up a simple bar graph is beyond their abilities?<br /><br />If I tell you a number was 300 in 1935, 800 in 1972, and 1100 in 2003, can you say off the top of your head whether the rate of increase has sped up or slowed down? But if you plot those numbers on a line graph or bar graph, it's obvious.<br /><br />And to tie back into the original subject, a lot of this "overwhelmed" feeling stems from a failure to communicate.<br /><br />With the future devices in Buck Rogers, you don't understand how they work, but you understand what they do, because that's important to the story. What kind of story do you fit your dad's new computer into so he understands what it does?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09182797355500586239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-63293469800065506082009-11-02T17:10:54.383-05:002009-11-02T17:10:54.383-05:00Mmm, yeah - but if you put it to the science of it...Mmm, yeah - but if you put it to the science of it -- they've known for years now that audience retention is greatest when they are told something at the same time as having it visually reinforced.<br /><br />People who remember pre-internet, pre-videogame, already process information in a fundamentally different way than the children who don't remember a time before the internet (who, much to my chagrin, can be as old as 25 these days.)DMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105351826851407562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-87005859613637245872009-11-02T15:23:23.324-05:002009-11-02T15:23:23.324-05:00In the olden days, they used to try to teach with ...In the olden days, they used to try to teach with pics and graphs and pie charts and stuff, but it really didn't help my comprehension of math or chemistry. Nobody could show me a picture of a 10 to the -23rd. It just did not compute. Although just the other day I did hear a fab lecture about Mendeleev and the table of elements and had a eureka! moment. <br /><br />I think that everyone learns in a different way. And even at different times. Perhaps, one day in the not too distant future, I will have an epiphany of the chemical mole.<br /><br />But don't get me started about the slide rule (or its equivalent, the calculator)deborah Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01660139014725973469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-67187431703421446082009-11-01T10:54:40.278-05:002009-11-01T10:54:40.278-05:00Interesting that you link to that YouTube Video, J...Interesting that you link to that YouTube Video, Jim. I've used that very one in a couple of discussions lately about how to get info across these days.<br /><br />Graphics. Interesting and relevant facts and bite size pieces of information. Use of music, push presentationi, visually more appealing...hmm...<br /><br />...I wonder if anybody else might be trying something similar.<br /><br />And I wonder if it has its uses? Dare I say it: I wonder if it's something that, say, the news could learn from?<br /><br />Nah. Probably not.DMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105351826851407562noreply@blogger.com