Education Next – Michael J. Petrilli
“I don’t mean to brag, but my 10-year-old son knows all about Admiral Yi Sun-sin, a 16th-century naval commander who successfully fended off several Japanese invasions of the Korean peninsula. That’s not because I’m some sort of Korean history expert or parenting genius, and it’s not because he studied it in school. It’s because I’m such a pushover when it comes to screen time that, in a moment of boredom, he stumbled across a series of 10-minute videos about Yi’s victories on the YouTube channel Extra Credits Extra History. And he loved every second of them.” (more)