If you have never been on youtube and you are reading this blog than I have some important information for you! Here is what you need to do right now. Go ahead and open another tab on your browser and type this into your navigation bar. www.youtube.com and wala, you did it. Now go ahead and familiarize yourself with the website and create an account if you like what you see. Youtube offers a host of knowledge from how to sew a button to people video journals of there day to day life.
Youtube offers a wide variety of learning tools I feel every student and teacher should have access to. With that being said there are positives and negatives to any situation. You do not want your students looking up doodles of cats instead of the science material you are covering and deferentially do not want them to access something inappropriate.
Here's the good news though. You can block youtube channels you feel are not appropriate to view, you can also install a clean filter through youtube to only allow certain videos to be searched or viewed. Also, you can make your own playlist and have the kids adhere to said playlist by simply sitting behind them in class. As silly as it sounds it really is easy to just move to the furthest of the room and see everybodys screen. If you notice a student not following the rules, than block youtube.
You can also use add-ons through firefox to download youtube videos and share them with the class to aviod students making these mistakes altogether.
Last, you an have your kids make there own youtube videos for certain projects or group activities and just make sure to stay on top of privacy settling when you upload them.
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