YouTube is a sort of data bank where people can share their videos. In my opinion, the consequences of this tool are quite obvious:
- fourteen-year-old teenagers beat disabled children and put the video on the net.
- Everyone can make a video by using a mobile phone and can cause harm to somebody’s reputation. And what about privacy?
As you can see, I’m a little sceptical about this tool. Of course it can be useful for us, but its nature isn’t educational; I think that videos should be filtered in some ways.
Having said that, I think that YouTube could be a very useful tool for our English language learning. Here you are my observations:
- students can find English videos in order to improve their listening skills
- even students could prepare educational videos to share with other people
- teachers could prepare tutorial video to help not only their students but also the whole community
- in the future, teachers could run academic courses by sharing their videos in YouTube! (Do you think it’s possible?)
Having said that, I think that YouTube could be a very useful tool for our English language learning. Here you are my observations:
- students can find English videos in order to improve their listening skills
- even students could prepare educational videos to share with other people
- teachers could prepare tutorial video to help not only their students but also the whole community
- in the future, teachers could run academic courses by sharing their videos in YouTube! (Do you think it’s possible?)
Personally I think that online education will be the future. Learning online is very different from a traditional classroom experience. It’s a “student-centred” process where the teacher is a sort of “moderator” that helps students to take part in the work and encourages them. In this picture of a possible future situation, multimedia and technological tools are fundamental. As I wrote before, YouTube could be exploited in many ways. In short, the word key in YouTube is “sharing” and this is the great potentiality we should exploit.
I’m looking forward to reading your replies
Stefania
p.s. I hope you enjoyed my video. It’s too funny!
Stefania
p.s. I hope you enjoyed my video. It’s too funny!
6 commenti:
Hi Stefania!
In your comment on my post, you wrote you don’t consider youtube an educational tool…If I am not wrong, I read somewhere in your blog that you teach children English….So you wouldn’t use any short cartoons or funny videos (like the one you chose) with English dialogues in your lessons, right?! But I think that videos could catch your pupils’ attention and help them to better remember new words through amusing scenes with colours, cartoons, different voices, refrains…I don’t know if it can be a piece of advice or idea…I am not very familiar with children!
P.S. In your video, the animals are the characters of Ferrero “Happy Hippo” advert, aren’t they?!
Dear Stefania,
How are you? I’m still under antibiotics but I hope it’ll be better next days! Before commenting your post I would let you know that I really enjoyed all hours spent together during Mondays lessons…working with your collaboration is becoming more and more interesting.
About your last post I liked the layout of your message very much: you wrote in red the last part of your work giving it more emphasis than the rest of the text. Getting to the point I absolutely agree with you: online education is our future; It’s a great opportunity just around the corner and we only need to take it in a good way! What about disabled persons? The fact of being independent in learning process: don’t you think that’s an enormous advantage for them? I definitely think so!
Kisses
Alessia
HI Roberta,
you're right: I could use YouTube to find some interesting videos... BUT I don't think I would search for them there just because I find easier to buy a DVD. Maybe in the future I'll find easier to download videos from YouTube. :-)
Stefania
HI Alessia,
I really enjoy working with you too. I like having constructive conversations with you all!
see you
Stefania
Hi Stefania!
I enjoy you liked the video I posted! It's true: it really catches Italians' behaviour!
I agree with you when you said that the key word in order to describe YouTube is "sharing". But as you pointed out you can share good information and bad one, as well. And I'm afraid that the last one will increase in the future! Nowadays we use the net very much, so that there are people who use it above all in a bad manner.
Hope things will change!
See you!
Giovi
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