10 Reasons to Use Technology

YouTube is full of great videos for teaching and learning.  Did you know:

• 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every day
• Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day
• Users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week
• More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years

Unfortunately, YouTube is often blocked in many schools and districts because there is some inappropriate content, too.  But that may change with the recent introduction of YouTube for Schools.  There are many alternatives to YouTube:  SchoolTube, TeacherTube, and Edublogs.TV among them. Here are 47 alternatives!

And there are ways to use YouTube safely, too.  That's the difference between knowing about technology and knowing how to use it in education!

Here's a YouTube video about innovation and technology in education: