Learning Through YouTube

It's amazing how many learn by using YouTube.  Just the other day I needed to learn how my running toilet, properly cut a tomato and how to replace the bulb in my HD TV.  So I popped up YouTube, did a quick search and was able to learn it in minutes.  Not only was I able to learn it but I was also able to apply it.  Oh how quickly you can travel up Bloom's taxonomy with Internet tools. 

Interesting stat: over 3 billion YouTube videos are viewed a day.  Now I realize that not all of that is leraning, but when you think about the context of education to replicating or forming cultures and societies, YouTube is doing that on a massive scale.  And it's no longer limited to local communites, states or nations, it is now global.  Informal education is rapidly changing and the opportunities for learning are endless.