[CASL-L] YouTube for elementary. What's your strategy?

[Matthews, Steve]

Good morning!

My opinion, I don't believe in completely cutting students off from YouTube
as they will be missing out on a valuable resource. Having said that,
teachers obviously will need to be prudent in vetting content. Having
students view videos in Classroom helps to cut out the distractions that
come with a typical YouTube page, as in the related videos and advertising.
Embedding a video in a Form also serves the same purpose. Of course,
students can still click on the "YouTube" button at the bottom of the video
and view the video in it's original YouTube page. This should lead to
conversations on digital citizenship and appropriate online class behavior.
The teacher should also engage in strategic monitoring of the class
screens.

Bottom line, students should have the opportunity to choose to do the right
thing, not have that be the only choice.

Steve Matthews
Instructional Technology Coach
<http://middletownitech.weebly.com/mpstechcoach.html>
Middletown Public Schools
Twitter: @MPSTechCoach <https://twitter.com/MPSTechCoach>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Palazzolo Wicks, Katrina <
kwicks at windsorct.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
> What is your district's strategy regarding access to YouTube for students
> in grades 3-5 or younger?
> We are 1:1 chromebooks in grades 3-5 and YouTube is 100% blocked. However,
> we get requests from teachers to unblock specific YouTube videos so they
> can have their students view the videos via Google Classroom. We just
> finished testing the "Teacher Approved Videos" in the Google Admin Console
> but it appears that YouTube still has to be "open" in order for that option
> to work.
>
> We are looking for new strategies and some of you might have some.
>
> *Katrina Palazzolo Wicks*
> Technology Teacher Leader | Library Media Liaison | Webmaster
> 860-687-2000, x270 <(860)%20687-2000>
> kwicks at windsorct.org
>
>
>
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