The story was ran originally by eSchool News and unfortunately for us, as for yourself, these sites don't allow comments, at least, you are a registered user. Back in the 2007 we've expressed our thoughts on the service provided by YouTube. The article en mention says that students turn to online videos to supplement readings and lectures more frequently these days. It couldn't be different, nowadays we have plenty of resources online to help students (and teachers) with education technology, and students particularly enjoy pretty much social networking. Great places where students can find supplement to their readings, classes and lectures are: YouTube, TeacherTube, MathTV and others. No wonder YouTube is getting hundreds of hits from young students looking for math help and educational videos. From the Technology News for Today's k-20 Educator "Math videos won't rival the millions of hits garnered by laughing babies, but a YouTube tutorial on calculus integrals has been watched almost 50,000 times in the past year. Others on angular velocity and harmonic motion have gotten more than 10,000 views each... On tutorials posted to YouTube by the not-for-profit Khan Academy, for example, reactions include: "Now why couldn't my calc instructor explain it that simply?" and "I was just about to leave my physics course. You saved me." One viewer went as far as to declare to the man behind the videos: "You are god of mathematics!!!" The 5 Ways to use Web 2.0 in the Classroom was an reflecting post of what means to be populated by this post, but surely, in the educational field educators can always come up with something new and creative. What uses are you implementing in your classroom with educational videos? If you want to receive my future posts regularly for FREE, please subscribe in a reader or by e-mail. If you have concerns, Contact Me at anytime.
Dr. Stager, a contributor of The Huffington Post, a teacher educator, education journalist, speaker and school reformer wrote a letter to Santa, asking for something special, comments on his Huffington Post article. "I think I've been good, even if the Hooked-on-Phonics(R) folks think I've been naughty!", he states. Obama practices social promotion is the title of his post in HuffPo where he establish that "social promotion is a godsend to urban school superintendents in this age of privatization." Whole post is a critic of the nomination of new Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. We are not going to comment on his post but in place we will reproduce part of his Judy L. Harris-Hooked on Phonics(R)netiquette dispute: "A curious cartel of billionaire bullies, power hungry politicians and tough-talking school superintendents wage an eternal battle against social promotion -- for the good of our children of course. Social promotion, a divisive political term with no basis in reality, like partial-birth abortion, is one of the most popular talking points among the the most vocal critics of public education. The "end of social promotion" has caused tens of thousands of kids as young as 3rd grade to be left-back, despite overwhelming evidence that this practice harms children and increases the drop-out rate." Henry Thiele, weights in and writes a Basic Research on Arne Duncan. He calls everyone to stop acting against an educational primer as Duncan is. Withhold judgment until you learn and see more, adds one of his commenters. If you want to receive my future posts regularly for FREE, please subscribe in a reader or by e-mail. If you have concerns, Contact Me at anytime.