Could more teachers move to TikTok to try to reach their students?
Since the pandemic, young people’s social feeds have been looking more and more like the classroom as educators attempt to bridge the knowledge gap left by various lockdowns and disruptions.
Emmanuel Wallace, known by his followers as Big Manny, has amassed millions of followers on TikTok, posting approachable and easy to understand content and practical experiments.
The ex-teacher who has been posting videos since the pandemic.
"I prepared experiments for the students and did demonstrations for them, just to show them how it works - and that's actually how I started creating the science videos," he told me.
“I just try to make it more relatable for them [the students] and break it down in a way that even somebody who doesn't have a background in science would still able to understand."
Matt Green is another ex-teacher who has taken his craft to social media.
He got creative with it and raps his way through the science curriculum.
