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Hundreds of schools to use educational video productions New filter allows school children to view YouTube videos safely.
Schools and local authorities are planning to spend up to £10,000 pounds a year on streaming educational video productions on YouTube, the Times reports.
Hundreds of schools are preparing to install the Bloxx Media Filter, which blocks unsuitable content and advertising from YouTube videos so that they can be accessed from the classroom as an educational aid.
David Mitchell, deputy headmaster at the Heathfield Primary School in Bolton, one of the first to install the filter, told the news provider: "This will give a big range of tools to help teach the children, to reach those who learn visually in the class."
He added that if undesirable content, such as bad language in the comments section of videos, could be removed, then YouTube could be a vast educational resource.
Teachers can use the system to submit video selections they think could be useful. These videos then have anything unsuitable removed and are put up for other teachers and students to select over the school network.
At this year's British Education and Training Technology conference, the world's biggest educational technology show, leading educationalist Professor Stephen Heppell said schools should embrace new technology in the classroom.
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