A video recording of the MIT OCW courses is absolutely educational.
Many science/technology focused YouTube channels absolutely produce educational content.
You don't need to receive a title or a credential to have received education.
I'm deeply sorry that you've struggled with bad things you saw on the internet. That can be a compelling reason to limit access. But that doesn't redefine education.
>there are many great youtube channels packed with scientific content, like Smarter Every Day, Veritasium, Mark Rober, CGP Grey, VSauce, engineerguy, Physics Girl, Captain Disillusion, Mathologer, Numberphile, ...
That's what I was replying to. And those videos are not educational. They're 'interesting facts' or 'wow science is so coooooool!!!!!111 yeah science!!!11' channels.
>You don't need to receive a title or a credential to have received education.
Fun interesting facts are great for getting people interested in science, but they are not science! People coming away from a Mathloger video interested in maths? Brilliant. People coming away from a Mathloger video thinking they know maths? Not brilliant.
There are lots of university lectures, worked example problems, videos of people demonstrating and teaching every type of manual skill, .... on youtube
Of course it’s not (and not supposed to be) a substitute for students working problems for themselves, running experiments, conducting interviews, doing research in the stacks, writing papers, writing code, putting each-others’ art through critique, or the like.
Nobody “comes away from a Mathologer video thinking they «know math»” (whatever that is supposed to mean).
Many science/technology focused YouTube channels absolutely produce educational content.
You don't need to receive a title or a credential to have received education.
I'm deeply sorry that you've struggled with bad things you saw on the internet. That can be a compelling reason to limit access. But that doesn't redefine education.