Almost unnoticed by teachers and parents, YouTube plays in the school an enormous role. According to a study, around half of the pupils use Videos to Learn. The has educational consequences.
YouTube was previously, especially as a hot address for music videos or play area for beauty bloggers and fitness freaks. But the Video of the YouTubers Rezo with the unambiguous title “the destruction of The CDU” made it clear recently that YouTube can be more than entertainment and fun. It is also a powerful Instrument in the political debate, and can teach the established parties Fear. Almost at the same time has now found a study among 800 students something else out. And that’s almost as amazing as Rezos huge success, YouTube has become a place of education. Almost 50 percent of the respondents are students from Germany use the digital platform as an educational source. You will appreciate the wide range of explainer videos. Or as the Client of the study, the Council for Cultural education, puts it: “YouTube has become the main medium and digital cultural place of young people.”
YouTube changed the Learning
Thomas Krüger, President of the Federal centre for Political education, sees a lack of communication between teachers and students
At the presentation of the study in Berlin, Thomas Krüger, President of the Federal centre for political education, criticised the fact that the educational Dimension of this self-active use of YouTube is not yet recognized: “The Autonomous reception of a new medium by students is becoming more and more important. However, it is underestimated by parents and teachers greatly”. That have changed the learning habits of young people is massive, has remained, therefore, almost unnoticed. An educational Revolution that has taken place in silence.
According to the study, the students use YouTube mainly to repeat the learning material in the school have not understood. Also for homework, for General knowledge and for the preparation of exams the students will find on the video platform is a lot of information. Not quite as popular, but it is noteworthy that YouTube is for the music, art and theatre lessons are a source of Inspiration.
It is not surprising that according to the survey, in addition to the entertainment and fun factor, the creativity and the Form of the knowledge processing on YouTube is appreciated.
Consequences for teacher training
Students popular: mathematics learning with YouTube
The changing learning habits must also have consequences for teacher training, calling for the authors of the study. It is not only about the teachers keep at YouTube and other social media up-to-date. Just as important, the self – learning and self-reception scenarios in the curriculum and to interlock with the conventional pedagogy. The development of more self-active Learning, is for teachers to grow more and more the role of educational Coaches, predict the experts of the Council for Cultural education.
The teachers should be the students, also partners in the critical evaluation of web videos. Because, as in the case of political messages, it’s also educational videos to check the quality and to properly assess. Who caught the wrong guitar video, teach yourself an incorrect playing position. Also for the commercial dependencies in the business model of Influencers and Youtubers, the students should be made aware, as the author.
However, the experts see a total of clearly show the advantages of the use of YouTube Videos. With the new paths, in addition to the “classical education efforts” will improve the quality of education significantly. In the face of bad reviews for the German school system in national and international education rankings the is also urgently needed.
Also, with a view to the cultural area, the experts see a lot of Positives in the YouTube Videos. The excitation potential is so high that a new Form of cultural participation is still open.
Spachlos between teachers and youth
But the question remains: How could this development largely to educators and parents house? Thomas Krüger from the Federal centre for political education, draws Parallels between the recent electoral results in the European elections and the education sector: as the analysis for the European elections is a lack of communication between the former people’s party and the young
The YouTuber Rezo has encouraging news from the classroom
Generation have noted, there are also between teachers and parents on the one hand and students on the other hand, a communication deficit: “you can quite parallel,” says Krüger. “There is a certain speechlessness between the Curriculum, the teachers, and the lives of the students”. However, Kruger points out that in the area of education, the already existing digital training Tutorials bridges between the generations build.
Rezo makes hope
The school is now different, also reported the YouTuber Rezo: “I have so many messages from teachers and pupils to watch together in the school the Video and discuss it in the last days”, he has spread on Twitter. So the YouTuber Rezo makes at the end is even hope for the digital Revolution in the classroom.
The Council for Cultural education sees itself as an independent Advisory body that deals with the location and quality of cultural education in Germany. It is an Initiative of institutions such as the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the Deutsche Bank Foundation and the Robert Bosch Foundation.
The Study “Youth/YouTube/Cultural Education. The horizon of 2019” is based on a representative survey of 12 – to 19-Year-old to the use of cultural education in digital culture places.
We also recommend a look at the YouTube Charts, which can be clicked on in Germany, especially of the adolescence.
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Channels Grande: Germany Youtube-ChartsLeader: “in Short – In a Nutshell”
The statistics website, “Social Blade” delivers real-time Germany YouTube Charts: ranked number one by the end of may 2019, the knowledge portal “in Short – In a Nutshell”. With 8.9 million subscribers in Germany, the most subscribed channel. Here is an animated explainer appear once in a month videos on topics from all fields of Science from astronomy to Zoology.
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Channels Grande: Germany Youtube-ChartsVice-Champion: Free Kickerz
To Know it is in the channel free kickerz, keeps for years in YouTube-Olympus, and with approximately 7.8 million subscribers (as of 28.05. 2019) on the number two in the Charts brings. He is alone from the football. World stars from the Range of David Alaba and Lukas Podolski give your technique tricks.
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Knowledge and explanation of the world for the Smallest of the channel SurpriseJoe creates it with 5.8 million subscriptions in the third rank provides. Protagonist Panda is understood, in particular, to explain the world of colors.
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Maybe culture puzzles historians once, such as a maximum of pesky animation figure of the 1990s (here at the music fair Popkomm in 2005) in may 2019 for the YouTube Star could be. 5.6 million Users have subscribed to the channel to the Trash icon, the nachquakt in it Hits covert or.
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It has become a Synonym for YouTube Influencer: the 26-year-old Bianca Heinecke, formerly Classen, achieved with your channel “Bibis Beauty Palace” 5.6 million Followers. 2.3 billion Times your Videos were viewed.
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The Aachen-based YouTuber Julien Bam has recently become a UNICEF Ambassador and travelled to the Slums of Bangladesh, to collect donations. He stands for the change of many Youtubers to the policy. His Videos have the weight and reach 5.4 million subscribers. In the channel of the 30-Year-old, it’s not also about music, dance, Lifestyle and product recommendations, to say: advertising.
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Channels Grande: Germany Youtube-ChartsPlace seven: Kontor.TV
The Hamburg-based record label Kontor, under its roof, among other things, the Band “Scooter” front man P. Baxxter (in the picture) that operates a YouTube channel that brings it to more than five million subscribers and four billion video views. The new music videos of the musicians.
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On the children’s toys channel, it is just this: children’s toys, which is shown in detail in action and reviewed. The “Pope” in the world of the so-called Kidfluencer the eight-year-old Ryan with his channel “Ryan Toy Reviews”. According to “Forbes”Ranking of the Young to have earned alone by its product videos converted 19,32 million euros.
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Channels Grande: Germany Youtube-ChartsSpace nine: The Voice Kids
The children’s Casting Show “The Voice Kids” in 2013 by the TV channel sat.1 launched. The adaptation of the music talent Show “The Voice of Germany” aims at children and young people between eight and 15 years. As a YouTube channel, The Voice Kids is bringing it to 4.8 million Followers.
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Channels Grande: Germany Youtube-ChartsTop in the media, the Flop in the Charts: Rezo
With a CDU-critical Video of the Youtuber Rezo had triggered before the European elections in 2019 a small political earthquake, and Germany made known. With 1.6 million subscribers, he is in the Youtube-Charts, however, rather a small light. The statistics page “Social Blade” ranks him in the beginning of June, at rank 95.