I feel like use of YouTube in the classroom can be beneficial and detrimental to the process of learning. Some teachers are becoming more and more dependent on YouTube, because any teacher can go on YouTube and play a video instead of actually teaching material. I feel like when sites like YouTube.edu are used this way, dependence and laziness is being encouraged. However, in other situations, YouTube is incredibly beneficial. Many of my high school teachers, would continuously pause and play a video to explain every detail, explain relevance to the material being covered, and answer questions. This was especially helpful during Biology when we were learning RNA transcription and translation. I could see the process happening on the screen rather than trying to get that same visualization from staring at a picture from the textbook. My biology teacher used YouTube more than the rest of my teachers combined, and after she played a video she would always say, “I do not know how teaching was possible before YouTube.” I have experienced both types of situations in high school, and both are encouraging some sort of dependence. Regardless, when my teachers were more engaging with YouTube, I felt like I had a better understanding of the material than if I had been taught with out it.
I feel like use of YouTube in the classroom can be beneficial and detrimental to the process of learning. Some teachers are becoming more and more dependent on YouTube, because any teacher can go on YouTube and play a video instead of actually teaching material. I feel like when sites like YouTube.edu are used this way, dependence and laziness is being encouraged. However, in other situations, YouTube is incredibly beneficial. Many of my high school teachers, would continuously pause and play a video to explain every detail, explain relevance to the material being covered, and answer questions. This was especially helpful during Biology when we were learning RNA transcription and translation. I could see the process happening on the screen rather than trying to get that same visualization from staring at a picture from the textbook. My biology teacher used YouTube more than the rest of my teachers combined, and after she played a video she would always say, “I do not know how teaching was possible before YouTube.” I have experienced both types of situations in high school, and both are encouraging some sort of dependence. Regardless, when my teachers were more engaging with YouTube, I felt like I had a better understanding of the material than if I had been taught with out it.
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