I agree, let's go back to textbooks. They say no phones in the school, but the school gives them tablets and chrome books? It's all the same!

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Anonymous wrote:If someone doesn’t understand why we’d use YouTube in assignments or lessons, then they aren’t aware of all the valuable content there. (I do realize there’s a lot of junk on it too.)

You know you can download YouTube videos, right? The only reason to give unfettered access to YouTube is laziness.

Teachers cannot block YouTube. It’s not their call.

That is my point. They can download the videos they want and upload to the APS content manager. Kids don’t need unfettered access to YouTube.

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Anonymous wrote:If someone doesn’t understand why we’d use YouTube in assignments or lessons, then they aren’t aware of all the valuable content there. (I do realize there’s a lot of junk on it too.)

You know you can download YouTube videos, right? The only reason to give unfettered access to YouTube is laziness.

Teachers cannot block YouTube. It’s not their call.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the tech person at the school has admin rights for every kid’s device.

I’m considering asking ours to block YouTube for the rest of the year on my middle schooler’s device.

Good luck. A lot of school assignments require watching YouTube videos.

Please, please tell me this is intended as a joke. Surely not ?

Not a joke at all. I substitute a lot. Often my job is to supervise them as they complete a large assignment on canvas that involves various activities, like analyzing a political cartoon or labeling parts of the cell. Often part of the assignment is watching a video on YouTube and then answering questions about it. It seems nuts but 99% of the time the kids who are the type to get their work done just get their work done instead of surfing YouTube, and the videos are sometimes really cool. I think iPads in schools are terrible because they are inherently distracting but YouTube access hasn’t been as bad as I thought it would be, honestly.