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

This is a very bizzare thing to worry about.

No one needs a YouTube login to watch revision videos.

Maybe I am misunderstanding but they are just stopping under 16 creating accounts? Stopping them from commenting/getting algorithms feeding them addictive stuff is not a negative.

I agree YouTube can be useful, but your concerns are misplaced.

The new law is aimed at preventing social media companies from allowing children to have their own accounts. Parents can still legally allow their children to use the parent's account.

And children will still be able to view content on YouTube, they just won't be able to create an account (so won't be able to comment, or upload content).

I will also happily continue to let my younger sons watch educational stuff on YT or just things that they are interested in like Lego tutorials or one of them enjoys videos about machinery and engineering. I am happy for them to watch these things, they are supervised on YT anyway, some of us don’t actually need to be told how to parent. .

I’m genuinely really confused by this because can’t they just watch them by not signing in?

BBC could move their content onto YouTube kids. I can’t imagine it’ll be hard to circumvent though between parents allowing use of their account, not logging in or a vpn.

Whatever you think to the content quality on YouTube, I think there’s a good point here about disadvantaging children born later in a school year. I’ve said for years that for things like driving, drinking and voting, eligibility should be determined by school year. I think the same idea would work well here.

That made me laugh as it is actually as simple as that.
You wont be able to comment etc, but you can still watch videos.

Well, for all people being a bit dismissive about it, there are long-established and well trusted resources on YouTube. It's not right for every kid as a revision aid, but for some it's extremely helpful, especially if they don't have parents who are able to help with some subjects.

My oldest didn't use them at all, but I think some of them would be useful for our DS next year and he doesn't turn 16 until after his GCSEs will be finished.

That said, the loss of direct access to them may be balanced out by DS watching less YT, which is the only affected app he uses (and also he's not determined enough to do workarounds) - although obviously the controls aren't kicking in straight away.

Watching videos is not a useful revision strategy.

in the same way that reading the textbook is not a good revision strategy.

what works is;

knowing what topics you need to revise and which ones you are secure on (mostly comes from end of year 10 exams and mocks analysis).

there is no benefit to watching a video in a topic you can already do and get full marks in any question on it.

good revision is focused on topics you are less secure on and usually involves actively doing stuff - doing questions, writing answers, and then checking them against the markscheme.

not watching videos.

We home ed and so a lot of the subjects my dc is sitting are iGCSE which YouTube has been invaluable for because there are sometimes fewer available resources than for the GCSE. Also for some subjects it is advised to watch videos of case studies and have general knowledge around the subject again these are on YouTube.

He started sitting exams aged 14 so yes I would and will happily break it so he can access good revision tools,

And why won’t they be able to access these? I don’t have a YouTube account and I can watch YouTube videos…

According to Google, kids in Australia easily bypass the You Tube ban by just not signing in. We don’t know how the ban will be implemented here but it’ll probably be similar.

Or they’ll just put the vidoes on YouTube kids. Probably makes more sense for them to be on there anyway.

Of course they could still watch YouTube.

And I’m sorry no one needs TikTok for GCSEs

Surely they can still watch YouTube videos without signing into an account?

This ground breaking, child saving measure went from restricting children to adults 'breaking rules' in less than a day. Can't wait to see what the future holds!

Surely they'll just be moved onto the YouTube kids app, which won't be banned?

@XenoBitchbear in mind MN log everything with 101, the other day someone was being told it was illegal to sit in your car in a residential street and the OP should call the police on some guy. No thought given to how this could be policed or not.

There are some brilliant videos on there, for maths at least (don’t know about other subjects).

You’re looking for loopholes. 🙄

Ex maths teacher.

a lot of maths revision stuff has videos as part of the website eg dr frost maths.

some places host the videos on YouTube.

my school has videos that we’ve made on calculator use etc which are internal only.

I’d be really surprised if YouTube revision videos actually confer a statistically significant competitive advantage in exams. I suspect the negative effects on attention span would more than even the playing field!

I have two summer born children and I think the fact they will potentially have 11 months more social-media-free studying and revision time than their peers is a massive positive. Nothing to stop me showing them videos on YouTube if it was actually a brilliant educational resource, but it is not.

The material they need will not be TikTok or YouTube based and anything that is will be viewable on a parents access and you can just monitor that usage yourself

Why do schools use it as a recourse then? They’ll have to have school log ins for it, like they do with educational apps.