My personal experience with YouTube

My personal experience with YouTube, a video sharing website, took a while for me to understand the purpose.  As at first it seemed just like a place where people upload silly videos of themselves and it still is, but if used right it can host a great range of short informative and interactive educational video. These video can assist in the transmitting of knowledge and can be incorporated in innovating ideas to engage the student. Especially adult learners and those with barriers particular could really benefit from connecting to material in a more unorthodox way.

Learning with a twist; if you look at Vsauce(also have Vsauce2 & 3)  for example, most of these videos are way out there concepts, but are all based on realistic facts and knowledge. He brings in relevance to the real world and we learn things we would never imagined, but it inspires creativity based on factual knowledge. This is a great was to spend 10-20 min or used to inspire thought after session.

Doodling Math a  marvellous  way to inspire those who cannot stop doodling in maths, to learn while the doodle. It is creative, funny, fresh and appeals to all ages and all abilities; the imagery produced is fascinating and is quite encouraging.

Even some musicians/rapper videos can be motivating to the learning; above is a video by an Artist known as Dizraeli and Macmillan dictionary, titled ‘The 21^st Century Flux,’ a fun way it get the learners to see the importance of improving our own vocabulary.

To sum up, my experience with YouTube is a good one, that gets better and better the more videos I find. There are obviously videos that are completely useless and serve no point at all, but I am not even scratching the surface of YouTube with the information I have provided and most people will already know this. I am just glad I realised the potential myself and incorporate them into my modes of inspiration.