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After making some changes on its home page UI, Youtube now plans to foray into education. To help the cause of spreading education, Youtube plans to unveil a new tool for teachers as well as students.�

Youtube for schools is a new idea to introduce collaborative education as head of Youtube Angela Lin says,” This is a technical solution to allow schools that normally restrict access to YouTube to gain access to it.”

Youtube's official blog post also �suggested that teachers have been looking up to leveraging the Youtube platform to access a huge database of knowledge in form of educational videos. But the bone in the throat was those other videos related to entertainment would distract students. This was the main reason behind schools restricting Youtube videos. However, the educational value of Youtube videos in visually interactive learning was much wider in horizon. Thus, Youtube introduced a new platform for learning.

Youtube for schools will have a network setting that will allow students only to access videos for knowledge via Youtube EDU. There are also options to stop comments and related video results and students can see and learn with the help of 3G and 4G network connections.

Youtube has been constantly working behind content curation with TED and also organizations such as the Smithsonian. Now there is a whole new range of playlists which are categorized by grade level and subjects. Teachers can also make comments or suggestions and the best part is this is free to use.