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

Because to me YT seems much less personal and more like telly for niche subjects or mash ups of actual telly. The others are all just about setting up your own profile and telling people about what you had for dinner or what an ace life you personally have etc. YT just seems different to what I’d call
social media.

You may notice I am cross at the dismissivness of the responses to revising using videos.

I am mother to a child with dyslexia. Yes, we use videos. Yes, some videos explain answers step by step. No, it's not the only part of revision.

However, kids without dyslexia also use these videos; people are selling revision books which are like brand new as their kids used only online resources. No one is buying books to revise from anymore.

I'm glad to hear You Tube is still going to be available.

How does Keir plan to police the ban. He can’t even stop humans crossing the border even though he’s paying out for security he couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag. I’m just curious no kids at the age of banning so not bothered either way. but so much stuff is illegal and people still get around the law. It’s a pity he doesn’t make under age sex a priority.

You don't have dyslexic children do you!

I don't think anyone mentioned videos being the only revision they would do?
Good lord.

God forbid these kids use book to revise from

Really good revision isn't really just watching stuff or reading it.

Its more effective if combined with less passive methods like testing yourself or memory exercises.

depends on the browser, most companies are based abroad, so if you use eg opera browser and set the vpn to europe etc then from a computer perspective you can use eg youtube

I thought the whole point was you will have to verify your age so the government will prevent anyone from accessing any social media unless this has been done. The go around can’t be as simple as just don’t log in surely? most teens don’t actually create content nor comment on videos I expect. If they are anything like mine they just watch. My daughter came in earlier to show us fart videos. That is the level we are operating at. And no, she’s not young.

You're overthinking this one. Just use your account or don't sign in.

If I wanted my children to watch specific YouTube educational videos (or they did) surely I could just put them on the TV. Or I would just get them via other sources.

I am comforted by this ban, I would have tried to keep my kids off social media but it’s easier when everyone else is as well!

There are some really great teachers on you tube. You are missing a trick.

This. Young people don't need personal access or accounts on unsupervised phones & tablets. If there's valuable educational material their parents will happily allow them to access it via their own devices.

At the moment it is the social media firms themselves who will be targets by any new legislation.

a parent can provide controlled access, and the child can still be presented with inappropriate content.

the only people who can stop that is the platform owners, or the makers of smartphones.

we’ll have to see what they come up with.

People are all different. Do you think there would be so many revision videos os they were not popular?

My niece is on track for fab gcses and hasn't been revising on screens.

Besides if there's really essential material, other sites will pop up that are education focused which will host the content & aren't hit by the ban as likely won't:

• be driven by algorithms designed to hook kids in
• be geared to maximise profit by making your child spend as long as possible on there
• be trying to drive traffic by offering more extreme content to young people like anorexia kids & inappropriate sexual stuff.

BBC bitesize for all subjects, or Khan academy for maths, are both free. Social media is bad for kids' mental health. There are so many resources you do not need to give kids access to social media, regardless of when in tne year they were born.

I support the ban.

And will continue to enable supervised access to meaningful and educational content, via my controlled accounts and devices.

BBC bitesize was exciting 28 years ago, but have you looked on there lately? It’s dire compared to some of the other stuff I’ve seen on SM.

Of course you can get through a GCSE course without watching a video if you want, but if you’re dismissing all video content, you haven’t understood what’s available. In the subject I teach, for example, video walkthroughs of past papers is an invaluable revision resource. And there’s some great TikTok videos explaining concepts in really engaging ways. YouTube and TikTok act as platforms bringing lots of creators together, and allowing students to find what works for them. It’s so short sighted to completely dismiss such a huge technological advance.

You don’t at the moment.

I’m not sure how it will work after the ban comes in. There seems to be remarkably little actual detail (at least not that I’ve been able to find).

Crikey. Another pile of rubbish spouted with such confidence.

I didn't know you had to sign in to watch YouTube.
If I just type in something to Google that I want to watch a video of sometimes the video is a YouTube one so I just click on it and watch.
🤷

YABU if you think for a single minute the ban will last, Either the parents will still allow it or the kids will circumvent it.

The law wouldn’t be necessary if parents were willing or able to control their children’s use of social media in these days of smartphones.

It is, for many kids, with dyslexia especially.

But you don't think so, so assume you are correct.

I can't believe the confidence of these posters.

And they will still be able to watch the videos. There is no ban on watching YouTube videos. The ban is on having their own account. You don’t need an account to access revision videos. So dyslexic people and people who prefer videos don’t need to worry!