Previewing a new Classroom

Previewing a new Classroom
As a former high school math teacher, I know all too well that teachers spend a ton of valuable time doing things other than teaching—waking up early to grade quizzes, collecting and returning piles of paper assignments, and battling copy machine paper...

Head back to school with Drive: Teacher Edition

Head back to school with Drive: Teacher Edition
Posted by guest blogger Wendy GortonWendy Gorton is an education consultant for organizations around the world. She’s a former classroom teacher, Google Certified Teacher and Trainer, and is passionate about creating learner-centered environments using...

Meet the 10 next gurus of education on YouTube

Meet the 10 next gurus of education on YouTube
Ever since Sal Khan uploaded his first video (on Least Common Multiples) to YouTube in November 2006, the demand for educational content on YouTube has been growing and growing - to billions of views last year. Last month, we teamed up with Khan Academy...

New features for teachers

New features for teachers
It’s World Teachers’ Day, and to honor the hard-working and talented people in front of classrooms everywhere, we’ve put together some new resources to make YouTube even more useful for learning. (Oh, and we’re celebrating teachers in the YouTube logo...

Finding the next generation of talented video educators with YouTube Next EDU Guru

Finding the next generation of talented video educators with YouTube Next EDU Guru
Across the Northern Hemisphere, students and their teachers are heading back into the classroom for another year of reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. While what we learn has broadly stayed the same for years, how we learn is changing rapidly as technology...

From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners

From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners
At the end of January, we invited you to choose your favorite YouTube Space Lab experiment ideas from sixty finalist teams, and today we have our winners! More than 100,000 of you cast your votes that combined with the scores from our panel of judges...

Homework got you stumped? Our new lineup of educational channels is here to help.

Homework got you stumped? Our new lineup of educational channels is here to help.
As I wrote in the Huffington Post recently, we here at YouTube believe that great educators can come from all walks of life, and we want to see more teachers - in the broadest sense of the word - turn YouTube into their global classroom. The demand on...

Geoffrey Canada and Capella University livestream panel on education reform

Geoffrey Canada and Capella University livestream panel on education reform
One person can make a difference. Just ask Geoffrey Canada, an education reform advocate whose groundbreaking work in Harlem schools set a precedent across the United States. It’s even inspired U.S. President Barack Obama to apply his model to cities...

Opening up a world of educational content with YouTube for Schools

Opening up a world of educational content with YouTube for Schools
When I was in school during the 90s, watching videos in the classroom was a highlight of any week. The teacher would roll in a television on a cart, pop in a VHS tape, and then we’d enjoy whatever scratchy science video my teacher had checked out from...

School’s out for summer, but still open on YouTube

School’s out for summer, but still open on YouTube
Summer is a time for teachers to get some well-deserved R&R, but it’s also an opportunity to develop new methods for the coming school year. One of our YouTube EDU partners, Teaching Channel, shares advice on how teachers can stay busy this summer...