YouTube is both a blessing and a curse for young people today. There is a ton of helpful, how-to videos on everything from jump starting your car to putting on makeup to making a three-course meal. There are also plenty of videos that can support our curriculum and engage students. With the good comes the bad though. YouTube is filled with videos that are not appropriate for young kids. Even videos that are not inherently bad could cause a HUGE distraction if they were available to students via their 1:1 devices. This is the reason that the main URL for YouTube is blocked by the D23 filters. A workaround is available. SafeYouTube.net. Here's how it works:
Now a caveat: any URLs created by SafeYouTube.net will play on student devices. Be absolutely sure that the "safe" URL that you share with students is the video that you intended them to see. Also, try to keep this trick quiet around students. They could also create "safe" links at home then share with friends at school.
Be safe and enjoy sharing engaging, educational videos with your students!
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Alison MahoneyLearning with third through fifth grade students and teachers! Archives
December 2018
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