Comments on: YouTube in the classroom, a good idea?

By: Bag o’ Tech » Consumption, Creation And Videos!

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By: Mobbsey

Mobbsey — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:45:37 +0000

HARD issue to resolve and one I’m not sure education will ever address fully.

As a drama teacher the ability to share performances and get feedback through a site like YouTube is quite a powerful potential of the web – it goes ways beyond the sharing videos, it becomes about critiquing and refining our work. However, at this stage we can’t access that potentially SAFELY and I acknowledge that. But that doesn’t stop me, as Anne said, from taking on my other role in schools as an educator – as an advocate to try and help others see that there is more potential to the internet in classrooms than many are acknowledging.

The sad truth is that you’re right in many ways. The internet is not a “safe” environment. And privacy and security need to be in the forefront of every net users mind.

Reality is though that kids are using the web and there’s very little teachers (or parents) can do to stop them. If they’re not allowed to use it at home, they’ll find another way – we can’t police them 100% of the time. And nor should we.

I’m with Sue, we need to be helping our students become savy net users – show them the issues and teach them safe practise.

By: Anne Baird

Anne Baird — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:45:18 +0000

As teachers we are caught between a rock and a hard place with this issue. Youtube is most often the Web2.0 tool of choice for people who create and upload wonderful and inspiring videos that would be appropriate to be used to engage and inspire learning in the classroom. We do have other alternatives such as teachertube, google video and teachertv but they pale into comparison with the range and quality (not all of course) of content that is available. But for many of us Youtube is blocked at school and for good reason of course ; there is a lot of content that we really don’t want our students to access. So what we do is seek out the good stuff that is available to use. Then, as has already been mentioned if we use Keepvid or any other the other downloading apps that are available to us, we are actually breaking the law. And if we want to be good role models to our students in the appropriate and lawful use of the internet then we shouldn’t do it. See what I mean about a rock and a hard place. I actually think it’s really all about education. It’s about us as teachers realising that we have a responsibility to use and teach the use of the internet in a safe and lawful way. And I think we have another role and that is to question, advocate and champion issues such as this as problematic. So that one day someone might see the light and work with us and not against us.

By: AngelaC

AngelaC — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:10:30 +0000

I agree totally with the comments made by Sue and tasteach. Educating our students to enable them to use the Internet safely and ethically is the top priority.

Having said that, I also agree that YouTube is problematic for teachers because of the copyright issues. For younger students in particular, my preference would be to download the target video and provide that directly to students. That is in direct contravention of the copyright agreement contained in the terms of use for YouTube.

Classroom management and educating students can still support the use of YouTube, but place a larger burden of care on a teacher who may already be stretched in the classroom.

Who knows what developments will happen though, and the time frame in which they may occur. The one guarantee is that the web and the tools to access its bounty will look different in a short period of time.

By: Miss W.

Miss W. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:07:12 +0000

Well said, Sue. I feel the internet can be as safe as you want it to be with your students. As teachers, who often know more about the internet than parents, it is our job to show students how to work safely in the WWW environment whether it be audio, video or written.

We MUST teach them to be internet savvy every year, as there are always new websites available that might sound OK but are not.

I feel as teachers, we should also be explaining to parents how we are using the WWW and perhaps run some sessions for them so they can at least try to keep up with some areas of their child’s life, especially in those teenage years.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:03:13 +0000

Interesting statement “The fact is that no matter what anyone tries to tell you, the internet is not a safe environment .” Life holds lots of dangers and isn’t it part of our jobs as educators to teach safe use? We teach young students safety like how to cross the road and issues relating to drugs, alcoholic etc. Isn’t it better that we teach our students the appropriate use of the Internet rather than letting them learn outside the school environment where they are more likely to get into trouble because gained the appropriate skills?

Video is a powerful tool not just for locating material that you can show your students within a classroom but it’s greater power is when your students use it for creating their own videos. There are so many amazing projects that you can create this way and there are video sharing website that are set up specifically for students. Through the process students learn collaboration, team work, information about creative commons, video creation and editing etc.