When your thirteen year old son shows you in five seconds how to go around the school systems blockers to access YouTube, you suddenly realize that students are more tech savvy than their teachers. My daughter showed me her favorite sites and we laughed together about the antics of Fred, funny pet tricks and so forth. I noted that if you clicked on the words, the school systems block popped up, but if you clicked on the picture the videos loaded immediately. Many of them were too funny for words. Unfortunately, they are not rated for content, so viewers must be prepared. I can see an instructor downloading specific clips and playing them for their class. For example when we were painting with wheeled toys, I downloaded BMW’s commercial to a jump drive and showed the students how they drove through various colored paint to create the video. The students were so fascinated with the BMW sliding around the hockey rink making rainbow colored concentric circles, it was difficult to break them away from the screen to make their own miniature versions. The only way I see this working in a classroom is for the instructor to control the videos, by loading them on to jump drives.
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