Schools to Spend £10000 on YouTube for Pupils
Monday, January 25, 2010 7:26
Schools and councils are planning to spend thousands of pounds so that classes can access videos on YouTube.
Up to now, most schools have blocked access to the video-sharing website due to concerns about exposing pupils to violent or sexual content. But teachers say that the blanket ban restricts their teaching and prevents them from accessing a mass of educational material on the website.
Dozens of town halls and hundreds of schools plan to spend up to £10000 a year each on a filter that removes comments on videos and related films. It allows teachers to recommend video content to be placed in a library for other schools with the software to access.
Teachers say that they would use YouTube to access videos of scientific experiments that are too dangerous or complex to perform in the classroom, scenes from Shakespeare’s plays and footage of other cultures or foreign landscapes. The system is dependent on teachers submitting videos for approval. It then filters out content surrounding the footage and links to other films. A selection of suitable material is then created for other staff to use and for pupils to look at.
Hundreds of schools and 30 local authorities are in talks to buy the filter, which costs between £2500 and £10000 a year, depending on the number of computers being used. At least 60 councils already use the other web filtering services on offer.
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