How to make YouTube appropriate for the classroom
YouTube can provide students and educators with hundreds of powerful educational videos that can deepen learning, and we cover finding those videos elsewhere. But a lot of times actually showing those videos to your students requires navigating a minefield of irrelevant results, unpleasant comments and ads featuring people who are going to catch pneumonia unless they put a shirt on.
But it can be done: let’s look at ways to make YouTube appropriate for the classroom.
Continue reading The Perils and Possibilities of YouTube →
School approaches to filtering internet content
As social media,Youtube, and gaming become more educationally relevant, how do we leverage their educational potential while keeping student data safe and teaching them digital citizenship?
Lock it down! “We need to keep everyone safe.”
Open it up! “It’s how the real world operates.”
I’ve heard strong arguments for both sides of the coin and have seen successes and challenges in both cases.
Continue reading To lock or not to lock →
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