[HN Gopher] Can Radio Really Educate?
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       Can Radio Really Educate?
        
       Author : tintinnabula
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2021-10-26 22:50 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | morninglight wrote:
       | Internet Radio has a few educational sites:
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       | Science Zone http://amber.streamguys1.com:4200/live
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       | Astronomy F.M. http://radio.astronomy.fm:8111/live
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       | Star Talk
       | http://tunein.streamguys1.com/StarTalkRadio?aw_0_1st.playeri...
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       | Jupiter http://n06.radiojar.com/0uk94cu0xrquv?rj-ttl=5&rj-
       | tok=AAABbx...
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       | Radio Newark http://streamer.radionewark.com:8000/
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       | Broadcast radio has morphed into a political propaganda tool.
        
       | KineticLensman wrote:
       | Yes. In 1978 I learnt from the radio that the answer to Life, the
       | Universe and Everything is '42'
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | Back in early 00's I listened to a Spanish radio programme with
       | biographies and historical battles and facts. It was full of
       | sound fxs, truly amazing, 1000x times better than reading a book.
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       | In the 60's people could get the GEP equivalent for Spain
       | (Actually in The Canaries) thanks to a radio broadcast.
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       | EDIT: Holy sh|t, it's still alive!! (Spanish):
       | http://www3.radioecca.org/
        
       | Turing_Machine wrote:
       | Trivia: the model wearing the "radio hat" is Academy and Emmy
       | Award winning actress Hope Lange, at the age of 15.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Lange
        
       | ghaff wrote:
       | And we keep reinventing mostly broadcast forms of instruction--
       | which are fine as far as they go and are very useful for many
       | purposes. But, especially for classroom-type lectures, it's
       | largely incrementally polishing up the part of education (big
       | lectures) that mostly works and for which we've had the tools to
       | listen/watch remotely for decades.
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | Unrelated question: does every single reading time estimate lie
       | to us in attempt to entice us to stay or am I just slow?
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       | There is no way I can read this in 10 minutes.
        
       | yboris wrote:
       | Very related: _Education Automation_ : Freeing the scholar to
       | return to his studies by R. Buckminster Fuller
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       | We had the technology even in the 1950s to do mass education that
       | would arguably be better than status quo in many subjects.
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       | https://www.amazon.com/Education-Automation-Freeing-scholar-...
        
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