Can Youtube and others like it replace Schools as a Learning platform

Did you know there's a place where you can acquire information just about anything? It's true! It's called YOU TUBE!!! Sure, YouTube has hundreds of thousands of hours of deliciously time-wasting video content, but it's a whole lot greater than just a black hole of pet videos and dumb clips. If you know where to go, YouTube has some of the most desirable instructional content on the planet!

And although watching Kahn Academy all day might be a bit dry, the artistry of YouTube creators has allowed "education" to be transformed in assortment of incredible and engaging ways. YouTube probably won't replace schools anytime soon, but it's a pretty rad alternative. So time to stop watching cat videos and get your learn on!

How you can intergrate school with youtube School-appropriate School admins and teachers can log in and watch any video, but students cannot log in and can only watch YouTube EDU videos plus videos their school has added. All comments and connected videos are disabled and search is limited to YouTube EDU videos.

The Khan acedemy believes in this teaching model. What Khan represents is a model that's tapped into the desire that every one has to personalize the learning experience and get it cheap and quick," said Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement at the Education Department. Mr. Shelton predicted that there would be "a assortment of knockoffs" that would take the Khan approach and try to extend on it. "This is going to spread like wildfire," he said.

Mr. Khan grew up in a suburb of New Orleans, where his mother, who is from Bangladesh, raised him on her own by cobbling together a series of jobs and businesses. He went to common schools, where, as he recalls, a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities. Math became his passion. He pored over textbooks and joined the math club. He came to see math as storytelling. "Math is a language for thinking," he said, "as opposed to voodoo magical incantations where you have no idea where they're coming from." The YouTube lectures got their start six years ago when Mr. Khan needed a way to help a cousin catch up on high school math. They are startlingly simple. Each one covers a single topic, like long division or the debt crunch, usually in a bite-size 10-minute segment. The viewer hears Mr. Khan talking, in his generally chatty, older brother sort of way. But his face is never seen, just his scribbles on the screen. More recently he has included two outside specialists to give lectures on art history topics like the Rosetta Stone and Caravaggio.

Today, the Khan Academy site offers 2,700 instructional videos and a constellation of practice exercises. Master one concept, move on to the next. Earn rewards for a streak of exact answers. For teachers, there is an analytics dashboard that shows both an aggregate picture of how the class is doing and a detailed map of each student's math comprehension. In other words, a peephole.

Interestingly enough, YouTube's movie rental service is still in its infancy, and it still only offers a small selection of films, but that could change quickly. YouTube exec Hunter Walk told MediaPost that the site will soon offer its users the ability to charge rental fees for their uploaded videos. For the past couple of years YouTube has been focusing on ways for its users to monetize their videos should they become very popular. It launched the YouTube Partnership Program last year, which allows some folks with popular videos (YouTube staff decide which ones are eligible)

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