A collaborative project between Youtube and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) resulted in the creation of “my classroom”, a virtual educational platform that seeks to provide more resources to secondary level students to improve their performance in class.
The channel, which is already active and can be visited by entering “youtube.com/@MiAulaColombia” It is mainly aimed at Colombian students, although the videos can be used by students from all over the world. Latin America for consultation and to deepen what has been learned in their schools. In addition, it can also be used by teachers to plan their teaching sessions or offer some of the videos as tools to deepen the knowledge. learning.
“My Classroom” carries out a work of curation of content and collected a total of 1,173 videos from different specialized content creators and which were evaluated by education experts to ensure the best quality of teaching in each one of them. In addition, to facilitate consultation of the studentsplaylists have been generated by academic grade and course.
Depending on the difficulty of the subject and the selected academic degree, the videos that can be found in the lists do not have a minimum or maximum duration established. You can find mini sessions of 4 or 5 minutes as well as longer videos that exceed 16 minutes.
According to Daniela GuerraResponsibility Leader for Youtube In Latin America, education is a relevant aspect for the platform and that is why it has focused on the production of content of this type that is freely accessible. “We started this project together with Unesco with the idea of making quality content available to students and teachers according to the official study plans, all in one place”, he assured.
Even for those seniors, my classroom it also has a set of 48 videos specialized in vocational guidance that can be consulted when the student requires it and in case they have doubts about their professional future and the choice of their career in university education. These videos address topics such as the careers of the future, the decision-making process and how to define a life project.
According to Unescothe videos that were selected to be part of the platform offer benefits such as the promotion of learning, inclusion and educational qualitythe transmission of knowledge in a dynamic way, motivation for students, strengthening of critical and social training, in addition to favoring the study autodidact.
The director of the UNESCO Office in Quito and representative of the organization for Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, Julio Carranza Valdesassured that “the channel offers quality content, aligned with the official study plans and the objectives of sustainable developmentso students can reinforce the topics covered in class and review them at their own pace.”
In addition, he added the importance of the work of Mi Aula by compiling the videos and the curation of its content with the intention of offering the best possible quality for students.
“At a time when students have millions of videos available on the Internet, a great contribution of Mi Aula is that the contents have been carefully reviewed, that is, they have been curated by the consulting team of Google Next to the Unescowhich guarantees that this information is reliable,” said Carranza.
