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Zoe Carada's avatar

I guess most teenagers are autodidacts nowadays (hashtag YouTube), but they’d probably hate to be called anything that has to do with teaching, self or not. A world where how-to videos earn millions of views must be a world of people keen to learn things on their own. The question is, how developmental is what they are teaching themselves, and what it is they’re doing it for: just to kill time, to learn a new skill and apply it? Curious to read what Joey’s teaching himself, and what he’s doing with it.

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Jill Ebstein's avatar

Really good point about how technology and YouTube have accelerated this.

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Jill Ebstein's avatar

Mitchell, Joey doesn't proclaim himself an autodidact :) I do. He simply exercises his curiosity, and we observe and learn. I think I might be a bit of an autodidact though and that would be self-proclaim... but only a bit

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