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

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Son is in yr3 at a v good state primary school.l. just want a sense check as they seem to watch videos on YouTube as part of normal schooling. Is this the norm?!!! So today they got a treat of a 'satisfying video' basically one of those shite asmr type things that kids like. But he's mentioned this a few times and I'm getting to the point where I feel like speaking to the head. We get all these emails from school around internet use including you tube etc and it seems hipocritical that they then use it as part of the normal day!!

Aibu to think this is just a bit crap? Or is it pretty normal now?

Not everything on YT is crap. Obviously some of it is. My daughter is really into science and maths and I've pointed her to school Tom Rocks vids on YT.

As a parent you can guard against the slop by cautioning your child and saying the long scroll, the shorts and the algorithms can make YT be additictive and have a discussion around that.

A lot of the BBC Bitesize videos are on YouTube. What should the teacher do, have them explaining seed germination over again listening to the same person with the same voice explain it or watch a video with different people and graphics explaining it?

You can watch these on YT now! I showed my daughters Through the Dragon's Eye and they loved it so much they worked their way through the whole series and were begging me to put it on.

This is definitely a huge huge over reaction. They are not being given iPads and left to sit on YouTube for hours.

even when I went to school in the 90s we had a tv for occasions!

my children’s school have Danny go on when the children arrive so they can all dance and get moving to the wiggle dance before lessons

I think the problem is that YouTube isn’t really what you imagine it to be. I don’t let my own kids watch random rubbish on YouTube, but in the classroom it can be an excellent resource if used appropriately. I can’t see the problem with it if used educationally.

Watching educational videos as a class to support what's being taught - fine.

Watching videos during PE is unnecessary, can't the teacher get the ideas from YouTube and then deliver it themselves??
Why does it have to be done through a screen?

I seem to be so old that when I was in primary in the sixties we used to listen to schools programmes on BBC radio, although schools TV was used as well. I recall being much more interested in the countdown clock before the programme started than the programme itself. Once on the radio the schools programme was followed by listen with mother and the whole class was allowed to carry on listening to it - because we'd all been brought up with it and it was so part of us. And we had great teachers in a country school. Happy days.

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I’m thankful of YouTube in school - in an emergency.

I’m a TA and the teacher went off sick this week. I suddenly had to cover class. The RE planning was from last year so the link to the Rama and Sita story didn’t work. Thankfully, it took seconds to find a child friendly version on YT.

I’m not sure how listening to news round daily is a problem either. I’m sure you probably listen to the news daily.

Fascinating thankyou!

Short videos are part of the problem with children's shortening attention spans, not the solution.
Videos can be very useful but I wouldn't want them used too much. Occasional use to show something that can't be easily shown in a classroom is great, used frequently for breaks not so great.

Films as a treat at end of term or as a reward for good class behaviour (DS's class has a jar which the teacher fills with those maths cubes whenever the class or a student has been particularly good and when its full the class votes for a reward which is sometimes a film) are good, something to look forward to and remember fondly while still encouraging longer periods of focus in children