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Using YouTube to Teach Social Media in an Educational Setting
Using YouTube in Education to Teach Social Media
A White Paper Presentation by Tamara A. Patzer
Education has changed dramatically in the past five years since the creation of YouTube, an online video sharing site that has changed the way human beings communicate and educate. Since its official launch in December 2005 with 8 million views to May 2010, when YouTube exceeded 2 Billion views per day, educators and parents have wondered if the site is safe for children and useful for education.
It is clear that YouTube is indeed a vehicle for education as long as teachers and parents monitor its use in a classroom setting. YouTube’s Education channel is a valuable resource for both information and instruction for universities and other school systems.
This presentation focuses on the use of YouTube to teach the fundamentals of social media and the history of communications as well as mass communications. Gone are the days of static slide shows, film strips, dated films and expensive videotapes and traditional books. Today’s classroom is filled with students who have grown up with videotapes, DVDs, CDs, computers, laptops, cell and Smart Phones since they were old enough to tap a keyboard and push buttons. While younger students know how to operate the technology, often they do not know how to research and process the information they are bombarded with daily. This is a key reason why using YouTube in the classroom to teach social media, communications and mass communications is imperative. Media literacy is a valuable tool for everyone in today’s fast-paced world.
YouTube for education is a valid resource for use in many classroom areas including teaching basic skills including language, reading, math, science, art and music. Nearly every topic imaginable is available on YouTube.
YouTube is the second most used “search engine” in the world, behind Google. Millions of people use YouTube daily and educators should use it both as an instructional tool and as a creative tool to help students learn how to research, write, produce and create valid information for others.
YouTube’s Educational Channel features well researched information including the work of University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow. In “Social networking sites have educational benefits,” Greenhow says that Facebook, MySpace, and sites like YouTube have a valid place in education.
As published in ENews, July 10, 2008, Greenhow’s “study found that, of the students observed, 94 percent used the Internet, 82 percent go online at home, and 77 percent had a profile on a social networking site. When asked what they learn from using social networking sites, the students listed technology skills as the top lesson, followed by creativity, being open to new or diverse views, and communication skills.
Data were collected over six months from students, ages 16 to 18, in 13 urban high schools in the Midwest. Beyond the surveyed students, a follow-up, randomly selected subset was chosen. Students in this group were asked questions about their Internet activity as they navigated MySpace, an online forum that provides users with e-mail, web communities, and audio and video capabilities.
"What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today," says Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher in the University's College of Education and Human Development and principal investigator of the study. "Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content, and thinking about online design and layout. They're also sharing creative original work like poetry and film, and practicing safe and responsible use of information and technology. The Web sites offer tremendous educational potential."
Greenhow says that the study's results, while proving that social networking sites offer more than just social fulfillment or potential job contacts, also have implications for educators, who now have a vast opportunity to support what students are learning on the Web sites.”
(http://www1.umn.edu/news/features/2008f/UR_191308_REGION1.html
Other helpful YouTube videos include the popular Social Media Revolution series and the Did You Know videos, which have millions of views. To view the videos, please see TalkwithTami 1.blogspot.com
Social networking sites have educational benefits from U of Minn expert
Meeting of the Minds: Youth,Social Media and Education
YouTube and the Evolution of Social Media
Social Media Revolution
Social Media Revolution 2010
Social Media Revolution 2011
The Evolution Of Technology In The Last 100 Years
Did You Know 4.0
Did you Know 5.0
A White Paper Presentation by Tamara A. Patzer
Education has changed dramatically in the past five years since the creation of YouTube, an online video sharing site that has changed the way human beings communicate and educate. Since its official launch in December 2005 with 8 million views to May 2010, when YouTube exceeded 2 Billion views per day, educators and parents have wondered if the site is safe for children and useful for education.
It is clear that YouTube is indeed a vehicle for education as long as teachers and parents monitor its use in a classroom setting. YouTube’s Education channel is a valuable resource for both information and instruction for universities and other school systems.
This presentation focuses on the use of YouTube to teach the fundamentals of social media and the history of communications as well as mass communications. Gone are the days of static slide shows, film strips, dated films and expensive videotapes and traditional books. Today’s classroom is filled with students who have grown up with videotapes, DVDs, CDs, computers, laptops, cell and Smart Phones since they were old enough to tap a keyboard and push buttons. While younger students know how to operate the technology, often they do not know how to research and process the information they are bombarded with daily. This is a key reason why using YouTube in the classroom to teach social media, communications and mass communications is imperative. Media literacy is a valuable tool for everyone in today’s fast-paced world.
YouTube for education is a valid resource for use in many classroom areas including teaching basic skills including language, reading, math, science, art and music. Nearly every topic imaginable is available on YouTube.
YouTube is the second most used “search engine” in the world, behind Google. Millions of people use YouTube daily and educators should use it both as an instructional tool and as a creative tool to help students learn how to research, write, produce and create valid information for others.
YouTube’s Educational Channel features well researched information including the work of University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow. In “Social networking sites have educational benefits,” Greenhow says that Facebook, MySpace, and sites like YouTube have a valid place in education.
As published in ENews, July 10, 2008, Greenhow’s “study found that, of the students observed, 94 percent used the Internet, 82 percent go online at home, and 77 percent had a profile on a social networking site. When asked what they learn from using social networking sites, the students listed technology skills as the top lesson, followed by creativity, being open to new or diverse views, and communication skills.
Data were collected over six months from students, ages 16 to 18, in 13 urban high schools in the Midwest. Beyond the surveyed students, a follow-up, randomly selected subset was chosen. Students in this group were asked questions about their Internet activity as they navigated MySpace, an online forum that provides users with e-mail, web communities, and audio and video capabilities.
"What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today," says Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher in the University's College of Education and Human Development and principal investigator of the study. "Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content, and thinking about online design and layout. They're also sharing creative original work like poetry and film, and practicing safe and responsible use of information and technology. The Web sites offer tremendous educational potential."
Greenhow says that the study's results, while proving that social networking sites offer more than just social fulfillment or potential job contacts, also have implications for educators, who now have a vast opportunity to support what students are learning on the Web sites.”
(http://www1.umn.edu/news/features/2008f/UR_191308_REGION1.html
Other helpful YouTube videos include the popular Social Media Revolution series and the Did You Know videos, which have millions of views. To view the videos, please see TalkwithTami 1.blogspot.com
Social networking sites have educational benefits from U of Minn expert
Meeting of the Minds: Youth,Social Media and Education
YouTube and the Evolution of Social Media
Social Media Revolution
Social Media Revolution 2010
Social Media Revolution 2011
The Evolution Of Technology In The Last 100 Years
Did You Know 4.0
Did you Know 5.0
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