Prediction: YouTube will become America's classroom.

[Yavin4]

Until there is a cure or a vaccine, America's educational systems will move online as its primary delivery system which will mean that YouTube, a free, centralized location for video content will become, in essence, America's classroom.

Before the pandemic, hours of free educational lectures and tutorials, from MIT's opencourseware to 3Blue1Brown, were on YT providing in class instructions and tutorials. This will expand as the pandemic continues. Teachers can put an entire semester of lectures online for their students and then use live streams for discussions and questions as a group or for 1 on 1 sessions.

Learning this way won't be comparable to how we were educated as children, but it may be actually better in some respects. For those students in certain subjects, they may be able to work ahead. Watch a semester's worth of videos in one weekend. For other students, having lectures online where they can pause and rewind at their own pace may work better. Khan Academy, one of the biggest online educational networks, was started based on this model.

I have taken several online classes, and I can attest that I learn better when the instructor can present the material uninterrupted by questions or discipline problems in the classroom, and I liked the fact that I can choose my learning pace. The only downside for me is not getting that immediate answer to a question or a problem that I had.

[Ms. Toad]

1. More likely Kahn Academy & EdX.

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.khanacademy.org/

[Yavin4]

6. Kahn Academy & Edx are on YouTube. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

15. EdX courses are hosted wherever the applicable university hosts them.

Some are on YouTube, but not all, by any stretch of the imagination. Same for Kahn Academy (with which I'm less familiar) - although most are dually hosted there.

But there is a distinction between courses offered by a recognized and respected entity (which uses YouTube as a server for videos that must be accessed through the educational entity - e.g. EdX, which generally requires course registration through EdX) and randomly searching for educational videos of unreliable quality on YouTube.

I've taken 3 EdX courses; none were directly available from YouTube (without registration for the course with EdX), and only one of the three was hosted there.

[Sympthsical]

13. Kahn Academy's servers are getting destroyed

I believe it.

[AlexSFCA]

2. MS Teams is a powerful tool for online classes

you can ask question using a chat function or raise your hand function which will get you unmute. It works best when the teacher (or professor) has an assistant to help.

[snpsmom]

3. That's a tool

But not the main platform. Educational platforms like Canvas and Moodle are more likely to be what districts turn to, while individual teachers and departmental teams use tools like YouTube, Flipgrid, Google Suites, etc. to deliver instruction.

[Yavin4]

7. The videos that support those platforms are hosted on?????

YouTube.

[snpsmom]

11. Sorry

those platforms work without YouTube.

[Sympthsical]

14. God, I hated Moodle

I went back to school about eight years ago to weak some skills, and everything was on Moodle. Hopefully, it’s improved. At the time, I’d be screaming at it daily.

[Bettie]

4. OH, I hope not

I hate the idea of being a society where no one ever interacts; where there aren't group activities or social outlets.

My youngest kid is social, he is an extrovert who is energized by being around other people. At 11, this is torture for him. He loves school and being there. Given our experience of the end of this school year, he doesn't learn as well from online programs, he doesn't like them. From his teacher's perspective, he's a kid who learns by asking questions and by helping others who aren't as far along as he is in the subject matter.

I fear that we're going to become a permanently distant society, never having social gatherings, doing everything online, having zero in-person interaction beyond an occasional trip to a grocery store.

I know a lot of people would prefer that, but for me, it sounds cold and extremely lonely.

I am an extrovert by nature too...I like my alone time, but I LOVE interacting with people as well.

And I have not spoken in person to anyone who isn't my husband or child since March 13th. I'm slowly losing my mind.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. This has not been a great experience for my Kindergarteners.

[Igel]

8. Some Youtube.

Some vids in Google drive.

Schoology.

Flipgrid.

Easy to use screencast-o-matic or screencastify or other similar software/freeware to produce home-grown videos tailored exactly to what you need. Whether initial instruction, adjunct for those absent, or review/RTI.

Some things on Youtube are decent. But I've caught some howlers in "educational" youtube videos. And saw other teachers just letting them play without pointing out how bad some were--they watched the first minute or two, trusted the unknown source, and didn't actually ever bother to watch it. Sometimes just out of date, sometimes just plain wrong. One suggested video (from district, no less) started okay, but 5 minutes in decided calculus was okay for high-school sophomores. (Really? If I teach seniors, can I use grad and curl? Lagrangians? Puh-leeeeze!?)

[Yavin4]

9. Educators will record their own content and post it on YouTube.

Don't rely on other content providers.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. It's been my reference material of choice for years - ...

How to change a headlight on my car.
How to change brake pads on my car.
How to change engine and cabin air filters on my car.
etc.

I'm sure I could use it to learn Latin, Calculus, Government, Physics.

[struggle4progress]

12. Well, that'd suck and blow