40 ‘Cool Guides’ People Shared On This Group That Contain Information They Don’t Teach At School (New Pics)
Whether we're talking about politics or the animal kingdom, learning something new can require a fair amount of time and effort. Luckily, we don't always have to read lengthy scientific papers. Some people do it for us. And not only that — they narrow down everything to a few bullet points and illustrate them to help our minds remember.
And if you want a place that stores these effective tools, look no further than the subreddit r/CoolGuides. As the name suggests, it collects picture-based reference guides for pretty much anything and everything.
"If it seems like something someone might print, physically post, and reference then it is a good link for this sub," its moderators write in its 'About' section.
Continue scrolling to check out some recent posts that garnered a lot of attention within this online community and if you find yourself hooked, fire up Bored Panda's earlier publication on it too.
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Dana Jandhyala, who has had a long career as an educator where she has taught in different schools and institutes, believes that visuals hold more appeal than plain text to curious and intuitive minds.
"Till date, several studies have been conducted which prove the power of visual aids in eLearning," she wrote. "And there are some interesting results drawn from them. Such as, learners respond to visual information faster as compared to text-only materials. Also, visuals help improve learning tremendously and on multiple levels. Hence, around 65% of the population comprises visual learners."
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Jandhyala said there are several advantages of visual aids:
They help store information longer. "Images are the simplest and the most effective way to make sure that the information gets stored as long-term memory. As per Dr. Lynell Burmark, an education consultant, our short term memory processes words and can only retain about seven bits of information. Whereas, images are directly processed by our long-term memory, where they get indelibly etched."
They make communication quicker and simpler. "Information listed in bullets is no doubt simpler to process. But, that same information in the form of an image or a video is processed even more quickly."
As per the Visual Teaching Alliance:
- Of all the information transmitted to the brain, 90% is visual;
- As opposed to text, visuals are processed 60,000x faster;
- Humans are capable of getting the sense of a visual scene in less than 1/10th of a second;
- 40% of nerve fibers are linked to the retina;
- Our brain can see images that last for only 13 milliseconds;
- The human eye can register 36,000 visual messages every hour;
- Hence, the eLearning programs which incorporate suitable visuals gain a higher preference over.
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Visuals aid better comprehension. "They help learners grasp concepts easily by stimulating imagination and affecting their cognitive capabilities. Besides, the visual language is also known to have the potential to stretch 'human bandwidth' – which comprises absorbing, comprehending and analyzing new information."
Visuals act as stimulators for emotions. "Emotions and visual information are processed in the same part of the human brain. Visual stimuli and emotional response are linked in a simple way and these two together generate what we call memories. Hence, powerful images and visual metaphors create strong impressions and lasting memories in learners."
They drive motivation. "Most of the students struggle with some of their subjects because they find them uninteresting and hence lack the motivation to put in the required efforts. Visuals are the best bet in such scenarios. Captivating images, engaging videos, interesting infographics, etc. help learners fight the boredom and motivate them to do better."
So it very well might be that the things you'll learn from these guides will stay with you. At least for a little while.
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This what millions of antivaxers are experiencing right now. They feel informed because they did internet research. Or because they are a nurse. Or because they know someone who backs up their opinion. They don't even know how much they don't know. To me, the scariest part of being in the US right now is how willing people are to take their opinion as a fact and use groupthink as a form of confirmation. Thousands of people who studied the subject for 8 years and currently work in the field are saying one thing while the other side has Timmy, the YouTube video maker talking to a guy that used to work at company and got fired is saying another. And somehow the thought process is the video is right. That is scary
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The Amount Of Snow It Takes To Cancel School By County
I hate PE outdoors when it's 90F or higher so much.
Load More Replies... This is way off. I lived in northern Minnesota and we had several feet of snow on the ground and still went to school. I'm in the Ozarks and guess what, school is still open when there is snow. Those insulting based on this graph, grow up, it's not right. Not only that, if you're used to driving on snow and have a good DOT to take care of the roads then travel isn't rough. If you're not then everyone is screwed.
This is also a chart that shows who does and doesn't get snow regularly
We are listed as "any snow" which actually means there is no set policy. The bus drivers drive their routes and report back to the school if it can be done safely with all kids and a determination is made based on that, not the actual snow amount that fell. We have many back roads and lanes that do not get worked by crews (rural area) so different types of snowfall/ice events affect things differently.
I had a coworker tell me that because I can’t drive in snow (I’m from Los Angeles) that I don’t really know how to drive. So I asked him if he could drive a stick shift (he can’t; I can) and explained that perhaps *he* is the one who doesn’t really know how to drive.
Exactly. Why would you try driving in snow if you have never driven in snow? If you can safely learn then do it. But otherwise stay home and stay safe!
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Again, in Texas when it snows it is preceded by rain and freezing temps. Black Ice forms on bridges and overpasses, cover that with a "light dusting" of snow and you have HORRIBLE crashes. Do you really want a bus full of children on their way to school crashing because some ass doesn't know how to drive on Texas roads when it snows?
Yall this is so true though. I have a friend who just moved from Illinois and we live as far south Alabama as you can get. It got a little cool the other day and we were talking about how everyone was in long sleeves and he was in shorts and a t-shirt. He said they would still walk to school in like 3 or 4-inch snow, meanwhile, down here we canceled school for even the chance of snow. Because if there's a chance these children can play in some snow we are not gonna be at school😂
Ok so now I know that it takes 6” of snow to cancel school in my area. Time to go manipulate the weather.
Not sure the get a lot of snow in southern Florida/Texas so if it's snowing there you're in real trouble
Not exactly. I have a friend in Steamboat Springs, CO. I asked a local when do they cancel school. The answer: "When diesel snow plows won't start."
this wont work for new york students, now they have digital school on school days... yay
Northern transplants to Oklahoma, where I grew up, would laugh at the Okies for closing school at the first sign of snow--but considering how utterly incompetent most OK drivers were at driving in it ("Hey, snow! You have to speed up at the intersection!"), it was probably a good thing.
Can confirm. I love is a green area in oregon. Any snow the whole town shuts down.
Wrong. As someone in the “24” region” it has to do with not the quantity of snow as much as the road conditions. If it’s icy they will cancel much easier than if it’s just a light accumulating snow. Equipped or not, it’s the school busses that determine how safe it is to drive the kids.
Where I am in coastal northern California - and I've lived here almost all my life, & I'm in my 60s - I've only seen snow that stuck on the ground for more than a few minutes two, three times. For all I know there may be a policy of calling a school 'snow day' for any snow, but in reality it's moot. When there's snow, we're all out goggling at it in amazement anyway.
Same. I'm 50. The last time I saw snow here I was too young to go to school, so not sure if it got cancelled. It's not like we're consistently getting small amounts of snow and just shutting everything down because we're just too afwaid. We are simply not equipped for it at all because it is such a rarity. We're not spending time making policies for how to handle something that might cause us a slight inconvenience once every 50 years or so.
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I'm in Kansas and in my district it is not so much the snow as the ice. I have seen school close with 1 inch of snow because the ice under it was thick, and I have seen the schools open with 6 inches of snow because there was no ice. It is the ice that is a danger, not the snow.
Also the amount of snow it takes a Texas senator to book a trip to Cancun...
I like how for instance in California there seem to be places where you can be up to your knees in snow and still be expected to go, but your neighbor will be excused for a single snow flake.
Well, yeah -- up in the mountains, unless you're snowed in like the Donner Party, it's a normal day. And if you're, say, around Disneyland, if it snows something is very, very wrong. You don't have to go in when there's an apocalypse, so....
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Any snow is true. Live in Texas, have to shake my head every time it happens. (Originally from Germany)
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Note: this post originally had 87 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
Bored Panda is just a content aggregator to generate ad impressions. They didn’t create any of these.
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Interesting and informative, but these are not the things you learn in school.
Maybe not anymore. I learned all that proofreading stuff in grade school. The music thing is annoying but I guarantee they teach it in some Montessori school somewhere...
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These are helpful!! I'd enjoy more content like this. Thanks for this one!!
See,you don't need a shittoker with 80% of the picture covered with face to explain it to you.Great content bp👍🏻
Bored Panda is just a content aggregator to generate ad impressions. They didn’t create any of these.
Load More Replies... Interesting and informative, but these are not the things you learn in school.
Maybe not anymore. I learned all that proofreading stuff in grade school. The music thing is annoying but I guarantee they teach it in some Montessori school somewhere...
Load More Replies... These are helpful!! I'd enjoy more content like this. Thanks for this one!!
See,you don't need a shittoker with 80% of the picture covered with face to explain it to you.Great content bp👍🏻
