Educating Tomorrow

Teachers are all over YouTube, from all over the world. You can see Brad teaching about Fact Triangles and a teacher's take on effective teaching to promote her private tutoring service by Thinking Cap. Videos from other countries, although short are often just as chaotic as the U.S. ones. Fred Henrickson seems to have it pretty together as he teaches Chinese kids in China, but why the bionic voice? There are a lot of videos uploaded by students of teachers losing it and students out of control. Some of them include guest speakers, like a cop who was giving a talk on the importance of gun safety and shoots himself in the foot. Check out the following tags: teach, teacher, teaching, educate, educator, educating and students.

With some videos, you wonder who is taking them, except for the ones where teachers are on a tirade or students are jumping over desks - it's likely such videos are put up by students. Schools are public institutions, and should be transparent. The public wants to know what happens in schools; however, when the majority of posts on YouTube depict raging teachers and out-of-control classrooms, you have to wonder what this transparency means, and why more teachers don't post their take on their four walls. With an upload like Brad's getting more than 830 views, teachers are on YouTube - how they're on continues to be defined.