YouTube
was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim who were working at
PayPal in 2005 (Turner, 2011). According to Turner (2011), the inspiration for
you tube credited to two different events. The first was Karim’s inability to
find footage online of Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction,” and the second
when Hurley and Chen were unable to share video footage of a dinner party due
to email attachment limitation.
Although
the very purpose for the creation of YouTube was to upload and watch videos,
but now with developed technology, YouTube has become one of the most effective
and prominent teaching and learning tool.
Most
of the teachers and the lecturers prefer to use YouTube as teaching and
learning materials. Through my teaching practicum experiences, I found
integrating YouTube in the lesson makes the lesson more engaging, interactive,
interesting and effective. Children enjoy watching videos related to the
topic.
One
of the interesting and effective usages of YouTube, I found in education is in
teaching children rhymes and songs. We can easily get rhymes and songs on any topics
from YouTube. Children enjoy watching and learning from it as the graphics are
colorful, attractive and interesting. This, on the other hand, becomes
challenging for teachers when they have to teach on their own.
I
found learning math from YouTube easier to understand and interesting. Many
video tutorials on math are available on YouTube. I came to realize the
importance of YouTube in education only after reaching this college. Teachers
do not necessarily have to conduct an extra class or remedial class if the
children have a problem in understanding the concept. Teachers can upload the
video tutorials or share the links on Google classroom or VLE. Students can
watch the videos on their own, explore further and clarify the doubts
immediately.
However, the teachers have to give the exact
links and websites clearly because the children might get out of track and
chances of getting distracted by unnecessary things on YouTube. Also its time
consuming and financially challenging for the teachers as well as the students
since the teachers have to select the best videos from the thousands of
videos online and have to use one’s own data in the absence of Wi-Fi.
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