With YoouKids, parents, teachers, educators can sync their own kid-proof video playlists from YouTube to devices accessible by children. It’s a remote control for curating YouTube content.
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Until now there was no easy or completely safe way for us adults to share with our kids some very cool videos we very often see everywhere on web, in online social circles and on our mobile devices.
“At YoouKids, we hope that no parents and no teachers would let kids ‘play’ with YouTube randomly, but besides some of its questionable content YouTube is a growing resource of safe, educational videos that we should allow our children to watch. Imagine a home or a classroom where we first play kids an explanatory video about a topic, then we much easily open a conversation with them about that topic” sums up YoouKids founder Nelu Lazar.
“YoouKids is a cool way to control what your children are watching from YouTube’s resources and to guide them, in an indirect way, to pick the educational videos and the information they are most interested about. You don’t tell them specifically what to watch, instead you let them choose from the list of kids-proof videos that you pre-approve and sync to their device. Kind of like what YouTube itself does to us as adults.” mentioned Gena Lazar, YoouKids co-founder and mom of two knowledge-sponge youngsters.
Whenever grown-ups will add - remotely, from YouTube, using a different device or computer - new videos to their playlists on YouTube that are synced with YoouKids, the children’s device will receive a notification that new videos are available for them.
Nelu Lazar, the founder and developer of YoouKids, explains the reasoning behind concepting the technology behind this app: “Dealing with YouTube playlists may be a handy common feature for the majority of parents, teachers, educators. Playlists are an easy way to categorize the videos we usually watch on YouTube as adults. I was an ordinary YouTube consumer, but what I realized through my own experience as a parent while developing YoouKids was that, by having available an app like YoouKids offering a quick way to auto-sync my YouTube playlists remotely over-the-air straight to children’s devices, spending a bit of valued time on YouTube.com or YouTube mobile creating and editing kids-proof educational playlists can become a very creative and joyful activity for parents, grandparents, teachers and any grown ups caring for their children. There is no parent I know so far who wouldn’t say at least once <<I wish I could play this video to my kids!>> once they watched a cool educational video while away from their little ones. Now take a bit of my time to research for cool new educational videos and sync them remotely to my kids’ devices, whenever I have the chance or whenever they ask me to.”
As a way to categorize the kids-proof videos they added or synced to children’s devices with YoouKids, parents or educators can create and manage unlimited local playlists of videos, in a way that makes sense for the children. Older kids can also join in and create local playlists and drag and drop videos between them, while for very little users the grown ups have the option of disabling editing the local playlists in order to preserve the folder structure that they managed. Teachers will find disabling playlist editing feature more appealing, because they will be able to have full control on the playlists with safe and educational videos for the daycare or school classrooms.
Aaron Madrid, a parent from Lafayette, Indiana, is seeing the real value of YoouKids in the selection of educational content that he can now sync to and let play on his kid’s device: “There is no shortage of inappropriate content on YouTube, but there is also an amazing amount of fun, educational, safe videos for your children to enjoy. YoouKids puts the control into your hands.”
Teachers are also excited about having YoouKids available for the classroom. They can make use of YoouKids to remotely select and sync educational YouTube videos that all children in that class can watch safely and without any fear of them tapping on ads or related videos that some may be disturbing and inappropriate. "I use the YoouKids iPad app as an instructional resource across the curriculum to enhance and extend instruction and student learning" describes Jennifer Davis, a teacher of first grade students. Daycare learning centers like Burgett's South use YoouKids to play educational videos that can better describe the activities the children are about to do or learn about. Middle schools are letting children watch history, art, math, social studies, science and so much more videos that they learn more things from. High school teachers and students are excited about YoouKids because it allows them to be more organized with the media shared between them and allows students to keep all the videos into one place.
In Lafayette, YoouKids is being used by teachers and students at Burnett Creek Elementary, Sunnyside Intermediate Schools, Mintonye Elementary School, Mayflower Mill Elementary School, Burgett's Learning Center, and also hundreds of parents at home who share an iPad or iPhone with their children.
YoouKids for iOS comes in English, French, German, Italian, Romanian and Spanish, with more translations being planned.
YoouKids can be downloaded for free today from App Store, with no ads, and all features enabled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-JZjzYIrs YoouKids for iOS comes in English, French, German, Italian, Romanian and Spanish, with more translations being planned.
YoouKids can be downloaded for free today from App Store, with no ads, and all features enabled.
