YouTube Just Wasn’t Built For The Classroom
Video content is rich and engaging, but it’s crucial that it remains educational within the K-12 walls.
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Video content is rich and engaging, but it’s crucial that it remains educational within the K-12 walls.
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70% of what people watch on YouTube is developed by it’s algorithm. 70%! And that statistic is for billions of people across the world. How much more impressionable is that algorithm with young children?
With the wave of technology in education over the last decade, it’s no surprise that YouTube has become heavily utilized in the classroom. Many studies have correlated positive student outcomes along with utilizing video content in the classroom. Video content has been instrumental in keeping students engaged and instituting personalized learning within districts. But is this an intentional or inadvertent result?
Many people don’t know that when YouTube was founded in 2005, it was originally a dating website! Slowly but surely it became a place for viral content -- funny, quirky, scary and captivating videos got uploaded by the millions. It was easy to get sucked into the black hole of YouTube for an afternoon - and it still is. Is this really the right tool for K-12 systems?
Today, school districts have 1:1 devices, complex networking setups, and hundreds of technologies deployed. Managing YouTube has become a complex and nearly impossible task. IT Teams are swamped with priorities and don’t have time to play “whack-a-mole” with YouTube. Students have enough distractions to deal with, only to have YouTube sucking them back in. Procrastination & distraction have never been so easy.
The answer is simple: YouTube was not built for education. Video content is rich and engaging, but it’s crucial that it remains educational within the K-12 walls. Kindu TV+ provides a safe place for students to watch hundreds of thousands of educational videos. We scrape YouTube to ensure the content is safe. We also provide analytics on how these videos are delivering educational results. It will keep your students engaged, your teachers happy and reduce your IT burden significantly. to set up your free 3-month pilot of Kindu TV+!
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Written by in August of 2021
