Tech Toolkit #4
Tech Toolkit #4
Billions of people today use You Tube every
day, and majority of students and all teachers are familiar with YouTube, and
we all use it as day life basis, but the pressing question is do we use it for
educational purpose? The answer would be “No” most of us use You Tube to listen
to music and watch videos that might have nothing to do with education. So why
not start using You Tube as an educational tool, where teachers bring
educational videos to teach students something, or explain the lesson further
more.
Student can listen
to Audio books on You tube while doing dishes or cleaning, therefor they don’t have
to wait until they are done with their chores. And if they have question and
want further explanation after class they can find You Tube videos that will
review and explain to them with the questions that they are struggling with. As a student now I use You Tube to listen to
free audio books, novels, and poetry performances. I also use to listen to literal
lectures, watch review videos about the lessons that I’ve took or watch a summary
of a book and get the sense of what to write about on repost reviews or answer
the questions that I’m struggling with. You Tube might not give you the answers
easily like Yahoo answers, but it will help you understand the lesson or
whatever you searching for and give you information’s that will help your own
questions.
Teachers can
easily find videos to help them teach the lesson in some visual ways, and that
helps the majority of students how are visual learns, teachers can also find
lectures or educational movies, historical event that are visualized, and
informational videos to help them with the teaching. Therefore, students don’t have
to read the history book they can watch the movies and the documentaries on You
Tube to learn the lesson.
One thing that we have not talked about is the filter that is used in schools to protect kids. Many times, YouTube can be blocked. Teachers will need to download videos to a jump drive in order to share it in class.
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