03/21/2014
We launched YoouKids for iOS in February and about 200 families and teachers have downloaded it already, on all populated continents of the world. YoouKids comes translated in 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Romanian and Spanish.
YoouKids allows parents and teachers to remotely synchronize educational videos from YouTube playlists to devices accessible by children and little students.
We're working with schools and daycare centers in Greater Lafayette and other cities in Indiana to integrate this in classrooms, and also make efforts for a local informal group focused on educating teachers, educators and parents on using emerging tech in education methods, named K12TECH (http://www.meetup.com/K12TECH).
If you ask why we're so passioned about this, besides loving tweaking the future of this community and the world, and besides strongly believing that classrooms will look and feel a bit different in only a few years, this list below pretty much sums it up:
"The Impact of Video In Education
• Video is becoming a preferred channel of communication
• Internet video accounts for 40% of all internet traffic in 2012
• By 2016, it is expected that number will jump to 62%
• Video helps students become actively engaged in their learning
• Video helps maximize school resources
• It increases engagement and excitement among students
• Video can help facilitate collaboration
• Video is appropriate for various learning styles
• It helps improve learning outcomes
• 68% of teachers believe that video content helps stimulate discussions
• 66% believe it helps increase student motivation
• 55% believe that it helps teachers be more creative
• 62% believe that it helps teachers be more effective
• 91% of UMASS students felt that using lecture capture helped them learn course material
• 44% of high school students in a study scored higher on their exams when material was presented in video format" (via http://www.edudemic.com/use-video-education)
From the playroom to the classroom or homework desk, YoouKids brings the benefits of YouTube's selection of educational videos safely into the hands of tots and K12 youngsters, and helps grown ups sync them remotely to kids’ mobile devices, tablets, iPods, TVs.