Need help fixing your bike? Looking for a new make up look or hairstyle? More and more, as a society we’re looking to YouTube to help us learn new things.
The same goes in education. Your learners are absolutely aware of this as well.
Can’t figure out how to do your trigonometry homework or need an extra study boost going into a test? YouTube can probably help you out. But as we all know, though the Internet can be a wealth of information, it’s not necessarily all good information. That’s also the case with instructional content. It’s not always necessarily that it’s not “good” information.
Sometimes it is simply that the information is not presented in the best way for the student who is looking for help. Not to mention the fact that the student might have to skim through three or more videos searching for what they need. This is time consuming–and for a student who might be in crunch time studying for a test, not really their best use of time.
Creating your own You Tube Channel will provide you with a platform to store useful vidos that are specific to subject content.
How video is driving personalization in education.
This is where the work of companies such as Glean and PBSLearningMedia gets me excited. Glean’s goal is to provide a space for students and teachers to discover the best educational video lessons on the web. Hundreds of amazing teachers post educational videos online every day; Glean has organised these videos by subject and topic, tagged them by educational standard, and wrapped them in interactive tools like Q&A. PBS LearningMedia is your destination for direct access to thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources. PBS LearningMedia builds on the strength of public media and is designed to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Resources are aligned to American Common Core and national standards and include videos and interactives, as well as audio, documents, and in-depth lesson plans. You can browse by standards, grade level, subject area, and special collections. You can also favorite, and share resources with your class and colleagues through folders and social media. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia’s basic service is free for PreK-12 educators. There is ertainly a wealth of resources to have a look over and use in your own context.If you are not registered with Teacher Tube yet, you should be.
Teacher Tube is a video sharing website similar to, and based on, YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made as part of K-12 and college courses. The website has over One Million+ educational members and over 500,000 educational videos. Something for everyone!Create your own account with these sites and use the readily available resources at will!
Give it a try, share your constraints and considerations in the comments to help those who are yet to attempt it!
Shaun
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