YouTube Is Investing $20 Million In Educational Content, Creators (theverge.com) 115
YouTube is creating a new Learning Fund program where it will invest $20 million toward education content. The announcement was made today by Malik Ducard, global head of learning. The Verge reports: Channels like TED-Ed, dedicated to educational Ted Talks, and Hank and John Green's Crash Course have already secured additional funding, according to YouTube's blog post. The company plans to invest in content from independent creators, like the Green brothers, as well as traditional news sources and educational organizations to broaden its content offering.
YouTube's Learning Fund has a nice ring to it, but it isn't a philanthropic charity. An FAQ about the program states that "successful applicants must enter into a written agreement with YouTube. This agreement will contain more details about required deliverables, payment timelines, and other terms and conditions." Creators must maintain a minimum of 25,000 subscribers. Those applying to the program also don't need to have a degree or proper certification in their field, "but successful applicants will be required to demonstrate that they have expertise and/or that the content they produce is verified by an expert in the field."
YouTube's Learning Fund has a nice ring to it, but it isn't a philanthropic charity. An FAQ about the program states that "successful applicants must enter into a written agreement with YouTube. This agreement will contain more details about required deliverables, payment timelines, and other terms and conditions." Creators must maintain a minimum of 25,000 subscribers. Those applying to the program also don't need to have a degree or proper certification in their field, "but successful applicants will be required to demonstrate that they have expertise and/or that the content they produce is verified by an expert in the field."
Already done (Score:2, Informative)
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Ohhh propaganada of the slimiest kind paraded as education. Hey what the fuck are we paying all those education departments around the planet for, can they not come up with clean educational content. Coming out of Google is will be serve serving advertising to start with, freevertising where it generates news thats get reported and voila cheap Google marketing (probably already got its money back). Then there is the actual content, how much will be clean educational, how much corporate propaganda and how mu
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Education schools train teachers. Nobody would trust them to write curriculum. Look what shitty a job they do teaching teachers.
Until you can build an AI competent to smack the little bastards, lower grades will remain hands on, 'Lord of the Flies'.
Re:Already done (Score:5, Insightful)
The irony is that what The Onion publishes is more valid & evidence informed than TED Talks. The amount of feel-good but meaningless edu-babble, outdated & wrong theories, i.e. They contradict current knowledge in neurosci, cogsci, & Ed research, & just plain edu-quackery that TED Talks put out should have them banned from any education system.
For example, Sir Ken Robinson has given 3 TED Talks. He talks about creativity as if it's a generic skill (It isn't), claims that schools kill creativity (They don't), & offers no concrete, falsifiable alternatives to current educational practices. In fact, he isn't an expert in education at all; he did his PhD in drama studies & knows little about the science of learning & teaching. If he did, he wouldn't spout the feel-good nonsense that he does.
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TED and TED-ed are two different things, TED-ed are really educational and basically a quick introduction (each video runs at about 5 mins average) into some sience/history/literature topic.
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Here's an example of a TED-Ed talk, "The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli": https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how... [ted.com]
Left/right hemisphere dominance in the brain is a myth. We use all of the brain all of the time. Different areas are associated with particular tasks but each region is almost always associated with more than one task, e.g. Broca's area is famously associated with grammar, but also with action recognition & gestures.
Critical period hypothesis is controversial & probably not true
Hopelessly Skewed (Score:3)
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This one outright promotes indoctrinating students:
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They're one of the last outfits who should be producing educational content.
AvE for the win. (Score:2)
But no, a few innocent jokes, a little beer in the machinist a 'bad word or three' and YouTube get's a (barbed splintering) stick firmly wedged up their asses.
Bet they won't even consider him 'educational'.
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Focus you fuck
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It's time to start dropping some F-bombs. [youtube.com]
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If AvE is trying to be educational, he's kind of failing. Most of his videos (at least, as of when I quit watching him, maybe he's changed) are just product teardowns and reviews... that might count as consumer education but I don't think it's what most people consider an educational video.
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When Engineers are kids, they take things apart. The ones that will grow up to be successful engineers sometimes manage to put them back together so they work.
Uncle bumblefuck has tons of real world, hands dirty knowledge. He's getting a lot of reverse engineers started, that's a skill that is almost never taught.
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That's how he was when I started watching. After a while, it started drifting more towards a product review. It wasn't "this drill does something nifty in how it works, let's figure it out" so much as it was "here's all the places they cheaped out on it, don't buy this". That's around when I stopped watching. Maybe he's changed back, I don't know, that's why I had that parenthetical qualifier in my first post.
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He's always done some 'product reviews'...but even there, it's educational for most, at least the first crappy drill review is. The third, not so much.
It would be better to (Score:3)
invest in Season 3 of "Ow, My Balls!"
or to have dedicated live feeds of Russian Car Crashes.
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They have to own the trademark, or someone else would have already made it real.
thanks thought bubble! (Score:1)
Crashcourse is awesome. The history and big history especially.
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Thanks for the tip!
Frankly, it would be move valuable to share good educational links rather than Google paying to get more content. I believe there's plenty of good content. The hard part is separating the wheat from the chaff.
Some sites I enjoy are:
* Technology Connections
* SmarterEveryDay
* The Coding Train
Netflix (Score:2)
Meanwhile Demonitized Me Kept the $80 They Owed (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALWDnHfbhcpdPco0cXIeOQ/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0
"End of BrendaEM's Youtube Channel."
We DO need more educational videos on YouTube (Score:2)
I enjoy working on my cars and bought the Haynes repair manuals but watching someone change the rear main seal vs. reading how to do it and looking at grainy black-and-white pictures is no contest. Regardless of the subject though, there a massive variance in the quality of the "how to" video. Some people are precariously balanc