This summer I'm doing a series on What Parent's Need to Know about *insert some type of online thing here*... because it's not just parents that need to know these things but teachers too AND if there is one thing we all know it's that online stuff changes so often it's hard to keep up (especially when you aren't even using that app/program)!
Today I'm talking about Youtube
If you haven't I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find someone who went on Youtube to look up one thing on how to change their cars windshield wiper blade and an hour later is watching videos of cats being scared by cucumbers. It happens to the best of us and it is SO easy to spend way to much time watching videos.
This poster is available as a free download from National Online Safety
Here are a 3 take aways from this poster...
1) You can restrict what your child watches online (if you enable this it means content that has been flagged as mature shouldn't come through... of course there are likely many flaws to this though)
2) Survey a class of students and at least one of them will say they want to become a Youtube star when they grow up. So, it's not even them watching content anymore.. it's them creating content. You can place restrictions on who can view their videos and *I think* can turn off comments (to help with cyber bullying).
3) Be aware of what your child/student is watching and what they are taking away from that video. Remember the cinnamon and Tide Pod challenges? Not the greatest of ideas but people still watched them.
Last week I talked about what you need to know about the app store.
Last week I talked about what you need to know about the app store.
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