This article introduces us to the creation of Youtube Kids.
The brief article details a few of the features included such as built in
channels with children’s favorite programming, and parental monitoring. While
reading the article it seemed that it was targeted to the youngest of children
with the mentioned programming featuring Sesame Street, and the like. However,
after further exploration into the app I believe it could be a beneficial tool
in a classroom of much older children through their elementary school career.
The first thing that makes the new website appropriate for
classroom use is the fact that all of the content is filtered to be age
appropriate. This makes it easier for a teacher to keep tabs on what their
students are looking at. It also makes it easier for kids to find relevant
videos for researching projects without getting a lot of junk videos to sort
through.
The second thing that makes it appropriate for classroom use
is that the content that is filtered is specifically for kids…… which sounds a
little redundant and induces some “thank you captain obvious” remarks from you,
the reader, right? Well what I mean by this is that more specifically than just
being appropriate from a language and sexual, stand point; it is information
provided in a way that is UNDERSTANDLE and RELATABLE. This means that if a
student is looking for videos of why the sky is blue, this will be explained in
a kid-friendly manner instead of a scholarly level. This again makes it easy to
research and include content in projects.
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