A new category : Twitch Education
Twitch should be allowed to be a place not just for entertainment, but also for learning and education. People who wants to stream educational content are currently not allowed to participate on Twitch, unless they are artists or programmers. Twitch is one of the largest streaming services, and while there is plenty of educational material on the internet, there is a lack of interactive, free to use services for interactive classes. Twitch could become a fantastic plattform for students, teachers and groups who wants to learn in a more interactive environment, that they can't get with other learning resources on the internet.
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TheGrimOrange commented
This would be a very good thing to have for things like tutorial streams and even classes taught over twitch
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goorolinapumpkin commented
all for education!
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Quenthulu commented
you have so many animal/biology streamers who use your platform because we like what we can do with it! This would be great! I give weekly conservation chats and would love if i could put it in an education catagory! Those who stream similar content like i do have to shuffle between travel and outdoors or science and technology.
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widooming commented
twitch education pepehands
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TwilightMiasma commented
Glimesh.tv already has a education channel so why don't you have one Twitch? HMMMM
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DrTotoHex commented
With the pandemic winding down, I think this is the perfect time for Twitch to branch out into some educational content streams. People already flocked to things like Bob Ross streams or streamers watching cool science videos on stream. I'm an educator myself, and I'd love it if people were able to find my content more easily if they wanted to learn something! It would also be a headstart in competing with some other sites like Skillshare and Curiositystream that are popping up.
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AlexusCh commented
If I’m going to waste hours on twitch, might as well be able to find some educational streams and learn something while at it!
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PlatinumAzure commented
I would love to use Twitch to provide a space for going over educational topics that people struggled with in school. This would be a great category for me!
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ThatMathTeacher commented
An educational category would be really useful! There are new educational streamers joining Twitch every day.
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Professor_Void_ commented
My content is specifically just my students and I learning about topics together. This would help out people who teach and want to show different topics rather than just Science and Technology. Its a win win cause the Science and Technology streamers don't have to be washed out by other streamers and the Edcuation Streamers and can have there own area to stream. I would even push for different topics in general. Why not have Math, Science, Art, History, PE, Music. TBH we already have some of these topics just add the rest of the curriculum, but for right now Education would be a good first step.
PS Also you already have categories of games that arent being played anymore that have no viewers at all so the excuse of "It won't be used a lot" is irrelevant.
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TeacherEimi commented
This category would be great not only for instruction, but also people studying. Right now, study streams seem to be lost in the Just Chatting category, when IMHO the content is completely different.
The best place for my language study has been the Duolingo category because it has a growing community. But what if I'm using a different site or app? I don't want to get lost amongst the hot tub streams.
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bobtuse_ commented
I’m not sure. I use the education tag for almost everything I do. I am not sure I would use a category specific to education. The craft that education is is already what twitch is - a place where you instruct interested audience about the topic / skill you do. Your activity.
Seems redundant, but I want to support your idea or your need, so I have a question - what do you mean by education is not allowed?
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NickTheTutor commented
I would love to have this option for my education streams! I think education could be huge on Twitch as the platform expands beyond gaming.
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asciarratta commented
Recently, I've been interested in education-related content. I noticed that Twitch doesn't have a category for it, but it has a category for politics. Would it be possible to create an education category as well? I find it difficult to sift through a general category to find education content. Please consider this.
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DrKrabby commented
Yes!! I've been teaching French on Twitch for one year and been craving a category like this!!
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fuzbrain_nicole commented
I love this idea, studying classes on twitch sounds amazing
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learning_with_l_marie commented
Good afternoon. I have created an opportunity to assist with homework virtually. This opportunity has further motivated me to utilize social media platforms to do so. I am curious if Twitch can add an Education channel category and/or channels to promote Reading Math Writing , since Science and Technology is already a channel. Please consider. 📚
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kevindoeschemistry commented
This is definitely a movement to be made here on Twitch. Got my vote!
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Sarahhulkum commented
Twitch EDU would be a fantastic idea! As someone who graduated from school so many years ago, I do not have access to typical educational content unless I sign up for college classes. The beauty of using the Twitch platform for this kind of content is that everyone has access to those passionate about bringing their expertise to the community! We can ask questions, give feedback, and build community through the chatting, follows and subscriptions. Having a place to link all of these streamers together just makes sense to build the community and bring in revenue for the lesser known streamers, AND the Twitch business! Linking adult wage-earners with content they like just expands the customer base of this platform, and the new revenue streams. It also has so much potential for cross-over between gamers who have day jobs, and teachers who like to game. And with the pandemic forcing so many educators to teach online, why would Twitch not want to bring all those students AND teachers onto their platform for school, which then makes it soooo easy for them all to stay around after school hours for fun, and therefore increasing the viewing hours AND money coming in. Make it easier to find what we want on Twitch, and you will see so much more traffic to streamers like this!
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ProfessorPeter commented
This seems like a no-brainer: Twitch has an easy opportunity to capitalize on all of the remote instruction going on. Creating a category to easily find educational streamers would really strengthen the educational community on Twitch and make it a lot more inviting for new online educational content creators.