TikTok itself has a label
These are contents in which only teachers or images of how questions are solved on a blackboard appear. The format seems very suitable for bringing educational material to young people who do not find the interest in the classroom, but in this case there are also those who ask for caution with these uses.
On the one hand, these contents are intended to be a supplement, a reinforcement that helps students, but do minors use them in this way? On the other hand, spending a lot of time on a social network may involve the risk of visiting other types of accounts that do not have a pedagogical vocation.
In any case, there are teachers who give short lessons that can help students better understand some points of the subjects they face in their schools.
One of the most followed and celebrated is Teresa, better known as Tu profesora de lengua, who on her TikTok accounts (more than a million followers) and YouTube explains how to write correctly. She is a teacher with experience in primary, secondary and high school classes.
These are very short videos, with a certain sense of humor, in which the teacher explains, in a synthetic way, how to write. It even exposes short sentences in which one of its followers makes a comment to correct it and explain why it is written in a specific way.
Also very charismatic is Carlos Maxi, a Galician teacher based in Mallorca, who, aside from his work at the head of his own academy, teaches mathematics in short videos for students at different levels of the subject, generally in ESO . His account Aprende mátémáticas is very followed. His videos are simple, with short explanations that tend to make the exercises he solves on a white board behind him look easy.
More developed from a technical point of view is the account Cuánto sabes.14. Quizzes of all kinds, also playful knowledge about games or football teams, but mostly about general culture and subject matter that is transmitted at different levels of education.
Another point of view is that of a Catalan teacher who prefers to remain anonymous in the media and who does not use TikTok in his classes. “I use the same language so that they learn or work on issues related to social networks, but so that they reflect, not to encourage their use”, he comments. Instead, he turns to Instagram and Twitter to reach out to the teaching community.
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In a note published in April, the platform considers that “it can be a key tool to carry out educational innovations that increase the motivation of students and help them learn in a fun and different way”.
According to data from this social network, 70% of TikTok users in Spain watch the educational videos until the end, while 68% click “like”, 54% watch the video they just watched and another 48% save it as favorites.
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