Let YouTube be your teaching guide, says expert - Richard Vaughan, TES

Teachers should stop relying on traditional teaching methods and opt for 10-minute video lessons to capture the “wandering minds” of their students, according to Sanjay Sarma, director of digital learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Sarma believes that schools and universities have been slow to come to terms with the reality that most of today’s young people are doing their learning online, particularly through websites such as YouTube. “The way we teach today is based on lectures, which is still a factory-style system,” he said. “But cognitive science and cognitive psychology tell us that students learn in a way that, frankly, isn’t compatible with lectures.” Students learned “in a more organic way”, he said. In order to absorb knowledge they had to be given it when they needed it. https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6455175