How YouTube junk is infiltrating classrooms – NBC News

How YouTube junk is infiltrating classrooms  NBC News

YouTube is becoming a staple in classrooms, but schools and parents are having difficulty controlling how students use the platform. NBC News reported that students are drawn to YouTube in ways that keep them scrolling, raising concerns about managing its use when it is available as part of classroom activity. The report focuses on the challenge for schools and parents as students use a platform that has become increasingly present in classroom settings. The changing classroom presence makes control a shared challenge for schools and parents. The NBC News analysis examined how students are drawn to the platform and kept scrolling.

It places YouTube’s classroom role alongside the difficulty schools and parents face in controlling student use. Tyler Kingkade reported the findings for NBC News. NBC News described the analysis as a first-of-its-kind examination. Its findings concern classroom use, student scrolling and the challenge of control for schools and parents. The report describes YouTube as becoming a classroom staple while students are drawn to a platform that keeps them scrolling while using it.