Wiki Page, Social Media in Education: YouTube: Why Use it for Education?

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2016-10-20T08:13:48-06:00

You Tube has a vast resources of video for education, put together by fellow teacher and content expert. If you are teaching about government, history, arts, music, mathematics, etc - chances are these resources are already on YouTube, you just have to search for it. However, if for some reason, you cannot find the one that you need, you can always create your own video, upload it and let your student know where it is.

A few other reason to use YouTube in your classroom are:

Increase student engagement

Free access to thousands of high quality educational videos

If you are needing more resources to lengthen in-class instructional time, playing a video relating to the topic discuss is a good alternative.

You can expand the impact of your topic/course by reaching a larger audience.

Use this platform to organize all the video content you find related to your course.

Not only you are giving your student a different perspective about the topic, you are also giving your student the option to think and dig deeper into the subject.

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