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Annotated Bibliography

Are YouTube and Online Video the Future of Education?

Devin Sweeney
Professor Malcolm Campbell
English 1103
26 October 2015

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Annotated Bibliography
Atteberry, Emily. "'Flipped classrooms' may not have any impact on learning." USA Today. USA
Today, 5 Dec. 2013. Web. 18 Oct. 2015
In this article from USA Today, Emily Atteberry explains the flipped classroom and the
preliminary results of a National Science Foundation funded study. The study focuses of
gauging the effectiveness of the flipped classroom. After a pilot year in 2012, Nancy
Lape, Karl Haushalter, Rachel Levy and Darryl Yong, professors at Harvey Mudd
College in charge of executing the study, made preliminary claims that the flipped
classroom is no more effective than its traditional counterpart. The study will last until
2016, but in the first year of their research, they found no significant difference. The
professors also found that there is more work and time required to facilitate a flipped
classroom. This combined with no difference in results has made the professors feel that a
flipped classroom does not have enough of a positive result to warrant the effort. In
addition to commenting on the study, Atteberry explains the origin of the flipped
classroom and the Flipped Learning Network. She explains that a flipped classroom
occurs when a teacher has the students do the traditional classroom learning at home and
focuses on doing problems and answering questions during class time. This article is very
effective in explaining the nature of the flipped classroom and the potential drawbacks. It
does not, however, contain the most recent information and reports using only
preliminary findings. Although this article provides a view contrary to Salman Khans on
flipped learning, I do not think that I will use it in my project. I would prefer to use
information that is current and complete.

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Duffy, Peter. "Engaging the YouTube Google-Eyed Generation: Strategies for Using Web 2.0 in
Teaching and Learning." Electronic Journal of e-Learning 6.2 (2008): 119-30. Web. 17
Oct. 2015.
In this scholarly article, Peter Duffy explores the omnipresent technology of today and
offers advice on how to employ this technology in the classroom. Duffy explains the
changing landscape of education due to what is known to be Web 2.0 (120). Web 2.0,
Duffy says, is recognizable by its easy accessibility and inclination toward user
contribution. With this in mind, he continues on to single out blogs, YouTube, and Wiki.
For these three platforms, Duffy explains what they are, lists their characteristics,
highlights their educational benefits, provides strategies for implementation in the
classroom, and offers up questions for the reader to consider and explore. This
breakdown of ideas is a very effective way to communicate information in an easily
understood way. Duffy, although he is clearly knowledgeable on the subject, presents this
information in a way that is accessible to anyone that wishes to know more. In addition to
his own thoughts in the article, Duffy introduces and cites many other scholarly articles
that touch on the same topic. This article is well written and well researched by Duffy, a
leader in education innovation, and I think it would be of great use in my Extended
Inquiry Project. For example, the strategies he provides for using YouTube in the
classroom and his evaluation of the educational benefits that YouTube has will help me to
show the potential future that YouTube has in all classrooms.

Edutopia. Ed. Kristen Franklin. George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2010. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.

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Edutopia.org, created by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is a website that


offers teachers the best strategies and plans for a successful classroom. As the name hints,
Edutopia is all about achieving an educational utopia. The website focuses on presenting
core strategies that are thoroughly researched at Lucas Education Research, another
program under the Educational Foundation. The website shows the core strategies of
project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher
development, integrated studies, and technology integration by using a combination of
videos, articles, interviews, classroom guides, blogs, and a discussion section. In addition
to a focus on these areas, the website also offers a variety of information on educationrelated topics ranging from after school learning to world languages. Every part of the
website is dedicated to helping teachers and, ultimately, helping students. This website
was very comprehensible and educational. Backed by a team of at more than 30 people,
this website is very well-researched, and the people are definitely dedicated to informing
the public about effective ways to reform education. Since one of their core strategies
involves technology integration, I think this website will help me to further develop my
ideas on online video in the classroom. For example, the sites video on blended learning
might be a good addition to my website to show the potential for online content to be
used in unison with the traditional classroom.
Khan, Salman. "Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education." TED.com. TED Conferences,
2011. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.
In this TED Talk from 2011, Salman Khan talks about Khan Academy, how it was
formed, the features it has, and how it can be used in the classroom. Khan Academy is an
educational resource that provides over 2,200 videos that teach and explain a wide variety

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of topics. From videos for his family to a booming not-for-profit, Salman Khan has
created an interactive source of education that some teachers are taking advantage of. In
the video, Khan explains the budding relationship the Academy has with the Los Altos
school district. A handful of Los Altos teachers flipped their classrooms by assigning
Khan Academy videos to be viewed at home and having students do homework problems
in class. This model and the Khan Academy website allow students to work at their own
pace to learn the classroom material. The software on the site provides feedback for
students and gives teachers access to data showing where students have problems, the
speed at which they are learning, and which students are proficient enough to help other
kids. Salman Khan sees Khan Academy and online video being an excellent tool for
education, and he views flipped classrooms as the future of education. Salman Khan is a
very well educated man, and since creating Khan Academy, he has emerged as a leader in
online video education. His expertise along with the interest shown by Bill Gates when
he crashed the TED Talk to ask questions makes me confident in the potential usefulness
of this source. I will use this video to explain potential implementations of online video
into schools for my Extended Inquiry Project. Since I am creating a website for my
project, I will probably also include this video on my site.

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