NBC
News - A sixth grader in Wisconsin
viewed 2,204 YouTube videos last school year. In Pennsylvania, an eighth grader
viewed more than 4,700.
Over the past decade, YouTube has become ubiquitous in the
American classroom. Many school districts give students their own laptops and
encourage them to watch educational videos on the platform. But districts often
struggle to effectively restrict what else students can watch, and YouTube,
which has become ingrained in class curricula, does not give schools a way to
disable addictive features like autoplay and TikTok-style YouTube Shorts unless
they block the website entirely. Google says it's up to schools to decide
whether to allow YouTube access and that administrators must obtain parents'
permission annually before enabling YouTube.
Still, millions of students have access to billions of
videos, leaving some endlessly scrolling through targeted recommendations that
have nothing to do with school.
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