The Video Picker: teacher key

How Video Sites Pick Your Videos, grade 2 edition, written for 2nd grade. Video sites pick videos for you. Find out what they look at, what autoplay does and what grown-ups can change.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What are recommended videos based on?
   • What a child watches and searches for (answer)
   • What color the room is
   • How tall a child is
2. What does a recommendation system suggest?
   • Videos that are very different
   • Videos similar to ones a person watched (answer)
   • Only ads
3. What happens when autoplay is on?
   • Videos keep playing on their own (answer)
   • The screen turns off
   • Only one video plays
4. Who can turn off autoplay?
   • Only the video
   • A grown-up (answer)
   • No one
5. A child watched many clips of cats. What might the system suggest?
   • Clips like those cat clips (answer)
   • No clips at all
   • Only ads
6. What does the word history mean in a watch history?
   • Videos you watched before (answer)
   • A school class
   • A game

Words

• autoplay: plays by itself
• huge: very big
• history: past views
• switch: on or off
• parental: of a parent