AIBU to think parents will break the social media rules for summerborn children’s GCSE revision?

Why does everyone have to have a point ? Or even "point" ?

Why can't someone provide the smallest piece of reportage with the aim of facilitating discussion and unbderstanding ?:

What's your point?

I too am dubious that X/Twitter was ever a particularly good resource for revision (and to the extent it hosted good resources, I'm sure they can be published elsewhere).

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OP: "they cannot access exam resources on YouTube and X"

It’s a non-issue. I need to body double for a lot is DS’s revision as he has ADHD and dyspraxia (so struggle to write much down and needs to practice using a scribe.) We find YouTube videos quite helpful and he accesses them using my or his laptop. Why would that change?

It never ceases to surprise me how black and white some people’s thinking is. Of course you can still allow revision videos on YouTube. The ban will hopefully start to normalise not doomscrolling for hours on end on teens phones. I am pleased they’re at least trying to limit social media for kids. If it even helps to break habits just a little it’s better than not trying.

Yes that's what I thought

The problem is not with kids watching the odd educational video under their parents' supervision. I let my primary aged kids watch craft YouTube videos. I watch with them. I don't see a problem with that. The problem is giving kids unfettered, unlimited and unsupervised access to watch mindless or harmful nonsense to the extent that they stop engaging in the real world.

This is all so ludicrous.

the truth is - independent reading - which is a HUGE indicator of academic success - had rapidly declined due to screens across the whole of British childhood. Young people are barely at all now reading for pleasure or for their on learning. That is a statistical truth not disproved by a single kid still reading.

Your teen can watch youtube on an adult log in obviously.

The ban is there to make it clear that it is not good for kids to be using these sites day to day and on their own

Like smoking - bans don't stop every young person - they make it culturally known its unhealthy and they make it harder for it to be used by those who are too young.

so much handwringing

It will make as much difference as when they moved the WhatsApp age from 13yo to 16yo around about 2016.

ie A few parents decided their dc wouldn't have WhatsApp unil they were 16yo. Some of those dc got it anyway, either on their "spare" phone (often bought off a friend) or kept quiet in various ways. And the children who didn't have it stuck out and found they were missing out on a lot of interaction with their peers making it harder for them to make friends.

Snap - same grades and all.

The rules will be broken all over!

tbf when I first saw TikTok I thought it would be great for revision- catchy little videos that you could use in a similar way to flash cards to practise key concepts, vocab etc.
I thought about creating something but I’m glad I didn’t now 😆

Literally no one is trying to stop you showing your GD kitten videos in a supervised manner

In the same way as parents can show their child 18 films, or let them have a glass of wine. Their isn't going to be police swooping in because you show your child YouTube on occasion

What will be hopefully stopped or at least reduced is unrestricted access to social media, which is undoubtedly harmful to children. As a teen who grew up in the early days of social media I watched ED content on YouTube, me and my friends used Facebook to message and meet older men. Things like tiktok algorithm promote incredibly harm/misogynistic views to young boys. No one gives a shiny shit about an animal video which will probably be on YouTube kids anyway

So as long as you call your website "educational" it's exempt ?

Or (as I suspect) will we have to have "approved" educational websites ?

So who approves ?

"Quis custodiet custodes ?" as I learned from an educational site.

I mean what about sites that teach human sex is biological from birth ? Can't have our kids exposed to such poison, surely ?

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I’m a teacher, I would never recommend a resource on social media. You argument is irrelevant. I recommend resources on You Tube etc that I can check and verify.

All will be revealed when they release the draft regulations. As ever the devil will be in the detail.

At the moment the press release says "Because we want to ensure the ban doesn’t include educational services, e-commerce platforms or music streaming, there will be a narrowly defined list of exemptions to the definitions which will be kept under review."

I would be curious to read the (legal) definition of educational content ...

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There is some surprisingly good exam content on there. I was also sceptical until I was shown. Just need to know where to look.
People have different learning styles and worked through video examples have been very useful in maths and physics.

This is just silly. No need to be so black and white about it. I largely support the ban… but if my child wants to watch a YouTube tutorial on how to play a song on the piano I’m not going to ban them from doing so! It’s like people don’t understand why the ban was brought in in the first place! Education content, played on the main TV while parents are probably in the same room/close by is world’s away from scrolling through shite on TikTok for hours and hours on their own, in their rooms when they should be sleeping

Educational content will specifically be exempt from the ban.

The current trend in life is for something that can be explained in 5 seconds to be padded to take about 30 minutes.

You can't blame the internet though. The BBC were are this well over 20 years ago.

I find the more there is on YouTube, the less I watch.

TikTok is short videos.
Someone could use them to show how to solve a maths equation or snippets of whatever Shakespeare play is being studied.
I don't know if anyone does...but they could.

Then it’s not a ban. Not sure why it’s framed as such. I have been hearing lots about having to use a ID in order to access these things but I’ve got the wrong end of the stick!

bit baffled that the government Would prefer parents not to able to monitor what their children are watching on YouTube via parent controls as they can now but would prefer them to view things the parents can’t easily track because it won’t be linked to the family account.