great tip if you absolutely must use YouTube as a professor, but this is also a great reminder of why we should avoid it and not serve educational content from ad supported platforms with deeply troubling social impacts (see linked thread below...) https://twitter.com/grjpatterson/status/1297979130437341184
Here’s a thread I did recently about the difficulties professors face. While videos are a tiny percentage of what happens in an online class they are often its most visible, durable good. It’s more important than ever we are mindful of this right now: https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/1291110549183442948?s=21 https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/1291110549183442948
Re: YouTube one of the most troubling parts is that with autoplay on (& make no mistake most folks don’t bother or know how to turn it off) you will get a conspiracy video that is incredibly antisemitic, anti-Muslim, or antiBlack within the top 1-3 “up next” playlist suggestions.
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