Extending learning science with YouTube

Byryan

As part of our series of interviews with people across Asia-Pacific who use the Internet as a tool to connect, create and grow, we spoke with DoYoun Han, a science teacher at Hyeongyeong Elementary School in South Korea. In addition to his day job, he runs the YouTube channel 3-Minute Elementary School Science, which shares videos of science lessons and experiments to students between 9 and 13 years old.

Source: Experimenting with science education on YouTube

The production values are really good. The one downside for non-Korean speaking students is that the videos are in Korean. I tried Google’s auto-translate for subtitles, but that was more funny than useful.

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