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WatchKnow
By Carla Thornton,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
Common Sense Media Reviewers
G-rated video site for kids teaches math, science, and more.
A Lot or a Little?
What you will—and won't—find in this website.
Community Reviews
Based on 2 parent reviews
Among us
WatchKnow free educational videos! Awesome!
Is It Any Good?
WatchKnow, as in "You watch, you know," is an attractively designed wiki holding thousands of educational videos and other media for kids. Everything is conveniently sorted into categories and subcategories. (For instance, history breaks out into ancient history, Asian history, world history, and so on.) Registered users can edit the categories and video descriptions to improve the site. The content is high quality and far-ranging, explaining just about every topic kids are taught in school and more. Particularly helpful is the site's two-way age slider, which parents can use to zero in on the best videos for the child's level of maturity, say everything geared for between ages 10 and 13. Not everything is rated, and some videos, such as the ones we ran across on weightlifting, are skewed more for adults. But it's all clean and overall a terrific educational resource.
Online interaction: Registered users can leave comments and join a mailing list that serves as a discussion forum. When we visited the site was still so new that there were very few comments left after the videos.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Discuss the role videos have come to play in our lives. They entertain, they inform -- and they can even make school subjects like social studies fun.
What are kids' favorite educational videos on the site and why? Do these videos make you interested in creating a video yourself?
Discuss how videos can help us learn but don't replace the experience of a live classroom. Set limits on how much computer time kids have.
Website Details
- Genre: Educational
- Pricing structure: Free
- Last updated: November 5, 2015
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