Teaching Students to Learn From You Tube
July 17th, 2011
YouTube can be an excellent source for education of students at almost all levels. It should be used in a controlled situation so nothing inappropriate is shown. But when used in the proper manner, there are many free educational resources there.
A good way to begin is to pre-screen the videos under the topics you are looking for and save these as favorites in your YouTube account. Then they can be easily accessed when you want to show them.
You can send links to certain selected videos to older students who can view them as an assignment, and then write about or blog about what their thoughts are on this topic. Blogging will tie this together as an integration of technology lesson.
There are ways to download YouTube videos and show them later. This gives great flexibility in using them as part of a lesson with no network access to worry about.
Using an active white board with the YouTube video is a great way to highlight and draw attention to some of the things you want to focus on. This is more advanced technology integration that is quite popular today.
Another idea is to show YouTube video and then have the students create their own video on a similar topic and compare. This could be a creative way to tie in video editing, writing with viewing of YouTube.
There are many ways to use the free resources of YouTube.