HOW TO: Find Educational Videos for Your Techie Kid on YouTube

It’s easy for YouTube's subtle changes to go under your radar if you do not pay enough attention. 
One of the greatest changes they have made is making a dedicated section for educational videos. 


Regardless of age or education level, it’s considerably easier to find content for kiddies of all ages. This ranges from preschool material to full college courses.


Step by Step


From the YouTube homepage, click Browse (next to the search bar).

Choose Education, 4th from the grey row.

From here, you can click on All Categories and choose between K12, Primary and Secondary Education, Lifelong Learning.

Or, you can browse down to see these displayed as separate categories, as well as others such as University, Math, Science, etc.

Other Youtube Tips

Your options in saving those YouTube videos for easy retrieval are endless. The easiest way is to bookmark these videos into their own folder. However, if you have a YouTube account, you can favorite these videos, place them in the Watch Later queue, or best of all, save them into their own playlist. Using your YouTube account will give you easy access to these videos even if you are not at your computer. Making a YouTube playlist will give you the freedom to organize what order they will play automatically. 

 If you already have a teaching plan, you can of course simply copy the URLs into a document to open again and play when ready. Again, for those more tech knowledgeable, you can prepare a lesson slideshow via Slideshare and embed the appropriate YouTube video into it. Finally, although it’s not officially enabled by YouTube in all countries, you can download these videos. Learning how to download YouTube videos is beyond the scope of this article. 

YouTube and Online Learning

These adaptations to YouTube have farreaching effects to techie kids and homeschoolers. You have access to an entire school curriculum online. Not only does it save you the trouble of making study materials from scratch, it’s easy to access for anyone who would need to audit or review the study materials you used to educate your child. And of course, s/he would be able to watch those videos again and again anytime they want. Memorizing will become a matter of repetition, and you can focus on understanding key concepts. 

Of course, this does not make YouTube your child’s school teacher, anymore than it would be your child’s babysitter. Review the videos you plan to use and set a schedule for them to watch them. You have the prerogative to make your child’s lessons around a certain set of YouTube videos, or have them augment your own teaching plan. 

Do not hesitate to let your child see the University videos. S/he may just be looking around for future careers, or s/he might be ambitious enough to try studying. Just bear in mind the only remaining barrier to entry, which would be his/her learning ability. 

What do you think?

How would you plan to use these videos to educate your child? Would you recommend this to others? Don’t hesitate to share your thoughts in the comments below.