Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "Comics belong in the classroom | Gene Luen Yang" video.

  1. i disagree. i think this guy is biased because he's been a cartoonist for so long. "if all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail" comes to mind. this should be something that a few slides with good diagrams and text can fix. slides can even be printed out with a similar format. the problem with comics is that it has to be a story. which takes away from the clarity of purely the information. it's hard to use a story as a reference afterwards. from adding spatial effects to his video lectures (distractions) and bored students, i get the feeling he needs to focus on the clarity of his lectures and that their too long. let students be blown away by how short and simple they are
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  2. Maddie Patty slides can do the same without the unnecessary baggage of having it in a story format
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  3. Maddie Patty at that point the line between a comic frame and a slide becomes very blurry. i think the strength of a comic is to quickly tell a short story as an example with humor. a few comics here and there would be fine (you often see this in slides). but i wouldn't want the whole lesson to be one big story
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  4. Maddie Patty lol, yes i recognize it. thanks, i respect yours too. i don't think our opinions are necessarily that different. i think the confusion came mostly from the many possible assumptions people can make about whether the guy has tried using slides and if he was also handing them out or what a comic means to him (he's not very specific). the comic format probably forces him to be really short. despite my criticism i do like his enthusiasm
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  5.  @karolarch  i don't understand where you see Pot calling the kettle. are you comparing the length of my comment to the length i say it takes to express something as a comic? i agree in the general sense with what you say, but i don't think it requires comics. in the same sense that visualizations can be beautiful, emotional etc, without being in a comic. you can also see the example he provides is of a teacher giving a comic assignment for a novel. this seems more appealing to those into literature and perhaps art. for those students that are not into these subjects or just not into comics, it could detract from other subjects by now having to see comics there too. at which point it turns into an unpleasant distraction. i think that inspiration comes from building on ideas of the subject. and depends on the kind profound insights the teacher can provide. i think that comics specifically are not required or that great for that, and is just an idea that the presenter has latched onto
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  6.  @karolarch  you did not really mention a tailored approach until now. if comics are used only when they can be tailored to the student, then of course they can be useful. tailored education is pretty much always better. yes a tailored approach probably won't scale that well. maybe AI can provide in that at some point. who knows. but, as i was talking about the general case, i do think that methods i've learned work better there than comics. i'm a HUGE proponent of recording lessons, which i think is being done far too little. hardly ever having them, has been an obstacle for me. and recordings don't even exclude comics. so i'm not that attached to methods i've learned, and accept others easily, if they are more effective. it seems that we are talking past one another.
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  7. Aviri Char i was not confused about that. there are several typical differences between comics and slides. a typical difference is that comics tell a story. when we start taking away such typical differences then it becomes blurry. i don't consider slides being on the screen and a comic being on paper typically, to be a significant difference. because things on a screen can typically printed out and vice versa with a scanner. at which point, that difference disappears. assuming of course that the presenter has access to these devices. i agree that a teacher controls the flow in a presentation, more than with something static. that's why i was careful not to mention presentations
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  8. Aviri Char it's not a repeat. you and me are having a different discussion than i was having with Maddie Patty. you started a new discussion about presentations and the media for slides and comics. i didn't agree with you fully. just because i said that the difference between something on paper and on the a screen is negligible does not mean that, i consider this the biggest difference like you do. more specifically, to me slides do not become a comic when put on a page nor does a comic become slides when put on a screen. unfortunately you seem to be the one confused. you're making too many assumptions
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  9. Aviri Char starting from your first comment you have been patronizing. and if that wasn't bad enough, you're simply wrong too. it seems like you desperately want me to be confused, about something i'm not confused about. don't be that guy that holds onto mistaken assumptions
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  10. Aviri Char can you point out where i was behaving and thinking like a child?
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  11. Aviri Char very unconvincing. you're making too many assumptions and also some problematic statements. for example, if i agree with something then i'm faking/pretending and if i don't agree then i'm being stubbornly clinging. it seems like you have already closed your mind
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  12. Aviri Char do you understand the problem i was pointing out with my example?
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  13. Aviri Char it's a simple yes or no question. i can't tell if you understand. that's why i'm asking
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  14. Aviri Char how convenient for you
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  15. Aviri Char it's convenient because you can immediately shut down any discussion, by declaring that it's too obvious for you to answer. anyone can declare this, but not anyone can demonstrate this. this is simply being intellectually dishonest. i want no part of the notion of awareness you have demonstrated. i would even say you lack awareness. your ego is in the way
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  16. Avari Char unlike you, Maddie Patty actually engaged me in discussion. people can't read your mind and you refuse to explain your strange conclusions. this actually shuts down communication
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  17. Aviri Char you didn't call me out. because you stopped engaging. i actually called you out and you didn't respond
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  18. Aviri Char to me, this is what acting and thinking like a child looks like. you have nothing, that's why you resort to name calling
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  19. Aviri Char you're projecting
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  20. Aviri Char again you are writing messages, but saying nothing. learn to communicate your thoughts and i will consider responding
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