YouTube Subtracts Racy and Raucous to Add a Teaching Tool
If you read the last article I posted about students using laptops in school to do everything other than school work, you may be interested in this article as well. Schools are looking to YouTube as a means of incorporating FREE technology into lessons which grab students' attention, and the popular video site is cooperating with a portal which limits student access to less desirable content. Like the teachers in the article, I have also found video clips on YouTube which are great tools for learning, but would hesitate to give my students the opportunity to access them on their own, knowing what other content lurks in the land of YouTube. I am pleased to read about the steps this new endeavor is taking!
Follow the title link above to read the full article, which was published Friday in the Education section of the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/education/youtube-finds-a-way-off-schools-banned-list.html?pagewanted=1&ref=education
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