A Brief Look at Youtube

When Shirky wrote “Does the Internet Make You Smarter?” in 2010, informational content on Youtube was smaller and less known. Khan Academy, a well known educational website whose videos are hosted by Youtube, has been around since 2007, but many popular channels for teaching various broad subjects and more specific topics came about afterwards. This aligns with Shirky’s claim that it takes some time for good content to come from a new, plentiful source. With the ability to create videos with whatever content wanted and make it available to millions of people through the internet, both creators and consumers have made informational videos on Youtube some of the most seen content. While you won’t find these educational videos having the most views of all time, a position claimed exclusively by music videos, they do appear on the

I’m writing to propose an initiative to reform Arizona’s high school curriculum to include digital technology as a part of the graduation requirements for students. Implementing technology courses as part of the core standards in high school provides opportunities for students to learn how to effectively communicate and share ideas with others. This is skill they will use and need in future opportunities when communicating with business peers who live in different parts of the world.

With the significant growth in technology, which has led to formation of different jobs, and having the internet at the tip of our fingertips humans should be able to educate themselves by using the technology around them to boost their creativity and specialize in what they are passionate about so that they can use today’s technology to revolutionize tomorrow’s technology. She proposes this idea by making a few alterations in the education system. * She phrases her argument by claiming that the collaborative nature of humans’ with other technologies can help the humans grow in fields that are yet to be discovered. * Davidson introduces an argument for decentralized, student driven pedagogy and a focus on crowdsourcing.

However, several students are not utilizing technology to the full beneficial extent that they could. Instead they are clicking on whatever appears on the first couple of suggestions Google has presented without checking the credibility. Unfortunately, websites like Wikipedia.org or certain news pages like catholic.org are not presenting correct information or they are excluding facts and molding the story a little more different. The Internet could not be filtered and students have to enter a world of “lies, garbage, and pornography” (Source E). However, sometimes students are not able to differentiate and end up believing the “alternative facts” that then harm their learning. As, schools block songs and math tutorials ironically on Youtube; students find the new loops right away. Therefore, so not only should teachers teach the curriculum but what websites and what sources are the most unbiased and accurate. Taking into consideration that there are literally one billion websites, it’s vital to teach students what information would be appropriate in their work before they state a fact that is not

The use of technology has become so widespread that many people do not know how to function without it. In the video, a student made the

Clifford Stoll argues, “If kids watch too much TV, why bring multimedia video systems into schools.” Stoll implies that the schools are allowing students to expect some sort of multimedia in their classes. Showing videos during class may help some of the visual learners, but most students consider this as a free-time and not focus. Furthermore, Stoll states that teachers show videos during class due to their lack of information. In this case, the teachers should prepare beforehand and keep the students interested.

According to “Educational Technology and Mobile Learning” YouTube for Kids, there are also a variety of excellent YouTube channels that provide interesting, educational video content specifically tailored to meet kids of all age learning needs. Sesame Street, Kids123, and Alpha Blocks name a few are educational, videos, and games for kids.

There are countless examples of those who have either made a career on YouTube or where YouTube served as a way to create opportunities. Some use YouTube as a way to improve

1. First of them is open a “YouTube” channel an create social experiments between people of different ages. In this project we put an issue for discussing. These issues can be social, necessary problems, interesting

A police officer in McKinney, Texas was placed on administrative leave after a Youtube video revealed him pulling out a gun on a group of teens outside a pool party. Officers had arrived at the scene after a community pool called about “multiple juveniles” who refused to leave the area. The officer is shown pulling his gun at an intervening group and then forcing a young woman to get on her face as he kneeled on her back. The police chief said that he will look into their training in regards to the officers’ actions at the scene but rationalized that “[when] you get around a lot of people… tensions can rise very quickly.” This was just one of the many incidents between white police officers and black citizens caught on camera. Ultimately,

YouTube has become the new way of learning. Anything you want to learn how to do is on there, from teachers teaching different subjects

Sixty-two percent of teachers say they use digital media twice a week or more and 24 percent say they use it every day to help them teach. The numbers of teachers using TV and video content in the classroom are even higher. Over 80 percent of teachers say they use TV or video to teach a lesson at least once a month and 76 percent are streaming it from the web” (par. 2).

Mission Statement: As an educator I will provide for students the opportunity to make a positive difference in their lives to help them accomplish unexpected goals. I will enhance learning to support my students in achieving their highest potential by integrating technology into the curriculum. I will integrate conceptual technology learning techniques that will implement concrete knowledge of technology that will emphasize mastery of understanding. Through committed support from educators, faculty, staff, parents, and the community, I will advance learning to support my students. This will allow students to become confident, creative, motivated, technology-ready students. I will provide leadership to

One of the major more recent changes to Youtube was the addition of the notification bell next to the subscribe button on Youtube. This feature allows the subscriber to receive notifications of new videos and updates made to whatever channel the viewer subscribes to. To activate this feature you first subscribe to the channel and then press the button with the bell icon on it to start to receive notifications from the channel8.

Salman Khan was featured in a TEDTalk convention to deliver his speech, “Let’s use video to reinvent education”. As founder of Khan Academy, he reaches out to an audience about a technological innovation that can transform students’ learning. He effectively focuses his speech on how the use of online teaching videos can create one global wide classroom. As technology continues to advance over the years, Khan has pioneered a new educational approach that can benefit students and educators worldwide. Although Khan successfully informs the audience by setting himself up as a credible source on how online educational videos have the potential to revolutionize the educational system and prove to be an effective component in the learning process, Khan weakens his claim by dismissing the different learning styles of students and overlooking the financial aspect to using this technology.