The traditional lecture does have a lot of value, however, we are also quite certain that the instructional experience can be improved through the addition of visualizations and simulations. This is especially true for interactive visualizations where the learner can ask, "What if ...", experiment, and see the results of their interactions.
The lecture format is very old and would not have persisted if it didn't provide a good value. At the same time, it's age also implies that there is room for improvement.
The vast majority of students never ask, “what if…” The vast majority just want to know the mechanics of doing the problems well enough to pass the test. At the time a student is taking Calculus 1 they don’t ask questions about why it works. They just want to know, for instance, the rules of differentiation. Later in life, when they have intellectually matured, videos like 3Blue1Brown are interesting and fascinating. The vast majority of students would not learn well from 3Blue1Brown type videos.
The lecture format has only been competing with high-production-values video for a decade or two, and with interactive examples for much less than that.
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Yep - multiple representations, and interactivity, for the win. It is incumbent on the instructional designers and teachers to construct a process where the learner actually learns the concepts rather than learning processes and using computational resources to cover a lack of understanding.
It is also useful to keep track of entries in a vulnerability database for some of the more "enterprisy" dependencies https://nvd.nist.gov/
Running a pen test against web apps can also be educational and amusing. ZAP is highly customizable, so you can extend it to cover particular areas of concern. https://www.zaproxy.org/getting-started/
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One of my favorites was to open the frame buffer on a Unix workstation, then logout leaving a background job running.
A little after someone logged in, the code would do something cute, like draw a crack on the screen. I once saw the guy next to me back away from the computer, and ask, "It's not supposed to be doing that is it?"
Perhaps not quite black hat, but I was amused at least. :)
Once I worked at a bank developing software for IBM is (AS/400 then). As any other programmer, I slowly built a toolset to make my work easier. My boss saw one of them and asked me to clean it up for the operators to use, as it made their work much easier. I did, they used it daily, everybody was happy.
Months later my boss called me at 3am, very stressed because the operators told her there was a skull in the screen. Fearing the worst, they traced the program back to me, and I sleepily explained: "the skull appears on Fridays the 13th, it's a visual Easter egg, the program works the same as any day".
In hindsight, maybe it wasn't the smartest thing to do. I was lucky my boss and the others were very tolerant, but not removing that Easter egg could have gone very wrong. AFAIK they didn't change it, seems like they liked the predictability. It would be perfect to scare newcomers.
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