My I phone has a YouTube app. I have made a list of favorites: everything from math videos, to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, to the They Might Be Giants podcast. My kids know they're not supposed to hit the YouTube featured button or any other but the favorites. However, the favorites button leads to YouTube suggesting videos similar to what you've just watched and they can chose other kid videos from there. I allow that. Once in awhile I hear something that doesnt sound like a kid video, but like last time it was a Disney Cars lego display set to rock n roll. Somehow my son has learned to navigate that very well and to look stuff up from using it too much. For example, this summer he asked me to tell him how to learn to swim but he ended up not wanting to learn how to tread water. Soon I caught him looking up kids swimming under water on YouTube and now even though he only stays in the shallow he puts his face under water and crawls across the pool. I'm saying he learned how to look stuff up independently without typing it into google or reading it in a book. He's almost 5. My almost 2 watches the cartoons and can start the next one. It's so user friendly. I view various media as an extension of someones writing.
I have other educational memories from my turning 5 kid and similar plans for my turning 2 kid. The part I wanted to share in this thread is these new options in the digital age.
Ie., he also looked up Super Mario videos last year after playing the game got him interested and I was super excited because I was like "oh my gosh !! My baby learned how to look stuff up! We were playing that game two days ago, so I know he looked it up and didn't just click on it at random !! Oh my gosh."
my goal in teaching him stuff is so that he can take notes, learn, look up, and apply ... I was surprised to see him looking up video games on YouTube
I actually just moved a desktop into his room and I'm going to hook it up and put kidzui (safe kid browser) on it now that he knows how to read and is learning how to spell and can use the big mouse.
