GCSE students are increasingly turning to ‘educational influencers’ on social media for their revision, but ITV News has discovered a concerning number trust TikTok teachers more than their school teachers.
Educational influencers – like other social media creators – produce short, to the point videos which youngsters watch on their mobile phones, but many don’t check their reliability and pupils have told ITV News it’s causing grades to fall.
One former GCSE student at Preston Manor High School in north London told ITV News how he regretted using TikTok teachers because the "super concise" videos gave him a "sense of security" when revising and thinks it’s the reason his results did "slowly suffer".
Another classmate told us how she thought the rise of educational influencers would see national average grades fall.
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