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Do you think that TikTok will continue to play an important role in education?

“I think that more and more TikTok users realize that the platform can be useful for a lot more than just posting amusing content and videos of people dancing."} 7c:{"position":26,"content":"

“The teachers whose videos went viral are the ones who’ve proven that if you present your educational content in an interesting fashion, the kids will actually pay attention and learn something.

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“You can explain something in 60 seconds on TikTok that might have taken an entire lesson during a frontal lesson. I’m not saying we should get rid of traditional frontal education, but it is a great way to get kids excited about a subject and to use language that kids understand.”

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Gal Buber

A history and citizenship teacher at Hama’ayan High School in Rishon Lezion, Gal Buber felt awkward showing his own face while making his first TikTok videos, so instead he used a puppet he called Israel Buber (@israelbuber). He has thousands of followers and hundreds of thousands of likes."} 7f:{"position":29,"content":"

“I have a YouTube channel where I post full history lessons,” Buber says. “My students asked me to create a TikTok account, since teens don’t really use YouTube, so that’s what I did.

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“At first, I felt really awkward, since to me TikTok was a platform on which kids post videos of themselves doing silly things. I thought for sure that it would be strange for an adult to post something on TikTok, and that it would just lead to ridicule, so I used a puppet I called Israel. And I guess it worked, because I’ve received great feedback.”

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At what point did you realize that your video

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