AIBU to think YouTube videos in Year 3 lessons are inappropriate?

Sad really isn't it.

Ooo which plants did you have?

Watching Chelsea is getting me all excited about plants again!

Did you show the bamboo with the longest flowering cycle?

There’s this new thing called Google. Try it.

I loved the magic pencil! “Up and down and round and flick”

Yes, I remember going to a special TV room. We watched things like Through the Dragon’s Eye and Geordie Racer. I remember one with a magic pencil too drawing letters, something like magic E. Teaching using screens has been happening for a long time.

They look at a screen all day. The smart boards are all huge screens. It’s how we teach. Even if we read something, like a passage from a textbook, it goes under the visualiser and is linked up to the screen so the children can read with a ruler and follow along. No getting away from screens in schools.

There are educational things on YouTube OP.
Even as a child in the 80s, the TV would get wheeled in and we would watch educational stuff.
Last day of term, anything goes.

Yep, YouTube shouldn't be used as a treat in school, we're trying to get them off screens aren't we??

I also occasionally show Newsround in form time too, particularly when there’s a big event. It helps to generate discussion in an age appropriate way. My form year 7 btw.

I imagine it calms down all the ‘disregulated’ kids who can’t sit still for ten minutes, ironically because they’ve been weaned on short form digital slop from birth. They should hand out comics, dominos or colouring pens instead.

@SlB09 did you yourself not have a tv wheeled into your classroom to watch things like BBC Schools Words and Pictures? The Way We Used to Live? I certainly did.

Look I get what you are saying about it but it is just a great resource for things you cannot recreate in a classroom especially science experiments. You can show them Roman forts and Viking Longships alongside the making of shields and the mock battles they had. It is a teaching tool. If there is a wet playtime then the younger ones watch CBeebies or CBBC.

I agree it can be overused but in the grand scheme of the school day, the curriculum targets that have to be met there isn't a huge amount of spare time.

@fruitpastille My DCs' school was a 3 form entry so 630 children and the school playground had scheduled times for break times. It was also used for games with PE taking place in the school hall. There is nowhere for the children to play out unless it is scheduled into the school day. So as much as we would have liked them to run around they couldn't. There were of course quick star jumps or running on the spot especially for year 3's who were used to having an afternoon playtime in KS1.

Part of this is modelling behaviour at home too, how many parents are on their phones constantly? We are all using screens now to write on MN. The difference is my son is out at the park, but he is early 20s

I use You Tube clips regularly in my lessons. So many brilliant resources on there and it really helps if the children can see. It breaks up the lesson too. Lots of children can’t concentrate for long periods of time and this helps. They’re only ever a few minutes long. Please just trust the teacher is a professional and knows what they’re doing.

I use some educational videos and stuff like newsround. And I might put a film on at the end of term. However I don't like the idea of short videos as a 'treat'. It's easy to have a bit of a slow creep towards using videos to teach more and more rather than children needing to have the attention span to listen to a real life human being talking to them. Why can't they have a bit more time outdoors or time to play a game without a screen as a treat?

As a teacher, I show loads of YouTube videos. The other day in year 6 we watched clips from Tony Robinson’s worst jobs programme in history. We’re due to watch some really well explained science videos about electricity next half term. There’s also loads of great learning times tables/continents/planets/months/days/phonics song video on YouTube, and some really good explanations of different religious stories or topics. I try to stick to content from the BBC (bitesize etc) where possible and always look there first but I find it a bit infantilising sometimes or not content heavy enough. Sometimes we watch draw along videos, or just dance videos for a brain break.

Youtube is a really useful classroom tool. Used best teachers will: watch it first before the kids, watch it through once with the kids, watch it through again while pausing to talk about different bits. I wouldn’t be worried about YouTube in general.

One of the kids may have been going on and on about watching the video you mentioned and the teacher possibly put it on at the end of half term as a fun thing. If that type of content is shown more regularly please go and speak to the teacher first, before escalating to the head. The teacher may be able to explain to you their reasoning and what is watched in class. All the head will do is probably ask you to speak to the teacher in the first instance.

I use YouTube to show the children short videos of all sorts of things. Things I cannot show them from the inside of a primary classroom. This week we watched time lapse videos of seeds germinating and looked at some of the world’s most unusual plants. I don’t show them asmr videos though. Ok as a one off end of half term reward for 5 minutes.

Slow Mo Guys was a huge hit in school in years 3 and 4. If a lesson finishes and everyone has been really great, you don't necessarily have time for a game such as corners, so something like this is a treat.

They also use Youtube to teach them times tables songs, French vocab again usually songs and sometimes maths which the children can then look at when at home too.

Don't you want school to be a fun place to be? Clearly kids love it as you said "shite asmr type things that kids like."

@WildMauveReader Some of those videos really help people relax and get sleepy. I personally like watching all the head spa ones from Japan where they wash the hair of the client. It isn't all crinkly, tapping stuff. You are meant to wear headphones. Some people are immune to it, DH and Ds2, some of us are more sensitive to it, me and Ds1. It feels like when you listen to music and you get a bodily reaction like goosebumps.

Danny go videos are brilliant for getting wriggles out of children so they are ready to focus!

If the kids are watching video after video and not getting taught anything then yeah it’s an issue

if it’s 3 minutes at the end of a successful lesson as a treat, no big deal.

which is it?

Thank you for the explanation.I will give those videos a pass...