YouTube for learning is in the news again this week as Edel Morgan of the Irish Times writes about
The university of YouTube, and asks the question is "
teaching yourself on the web as effective as interacting in a classroom"?
Morgan sets three challenges to learn: (1) how to blow dry hair, (2) sign language, and (3) a dance sequence - all on YouTube, with varying degrees of success. As she points out - you can now learn almost anything on YouTube. Just search for what you need to know, and someone will have put up a video showing you how to do it. Below is a video from the
Irish Yo-Yo Guy showing you how to do some tricks with a Yo-Yo. There is so much of this type of stuff on the web that in effect we are all becoming educators as well as learners.
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