It was a Monday morning in upstate New York. Leejun Taylor, a New York State certified language teacher at a public school, started class the way she often does — asking students in Chinese what they did over the weekend.
Two of them had the same answer: they played video games for 27 hours straight. No sleeping. No eating. No leaving the room.
"Did your parents know?" she asked.
"They don't care," the students said. "They don't know what we're doing."
It was, she says, disturbing. And it was the moment that started her down a different path.
The Problem Every Teacher Sees
Leejun's story is not unusual. Across the United States, teachers are watching the same pattern play out in their classrooms: students who arrive physically present but mentally elsewhere, shaped by digital environments that were engineered to keep them hooked — not to help them grow.
"Students who spend that much time online — when they show up in the classroom, they seem to be in another world," Leejun says. "It's very difficult to get them focused. Their grades aren't that great. Every time they talk about things, it's video games. There's no real conversation."
The platforms children spend most of their time on are, by design, built around addictive algorithms — endless scroll, constant content push, no natural stopping point. And even when teachers try to use mainstream platforms for educational purposes, the risks follow them into the classroom.
"I go on YouTube to find teaching videos — it's supposed to be good," Leejun explains. "But there are times that pop up with videos that are inappropriate for a school environment. Even teachers run into issues like that."
Her school eventually blocked YouTube entirely. Students' phones were banned from classrooms. But blocking things only goes so far.
What Leejun needed — what teachers everywhere need — was something better to replace it with.
Finding Gan Jing World
When Leejun first heard about Gan Jing World, it was the platform's mission that caught her attention. Gan Jing means "clean" in Chinese. The platform was built from the ground up to be family-safe, non-addictive, and free of harmful content — with no advertising, no manipulative algorithms, and no data sold to third parties.
"What really drew my attention is that they purposefully and intentionally have concerns about online safety and students' well-being," she says. "The content is 100% clean and safe. It's focused on learning, focused on content and education. And it adds good value to learning."
She started exploring Gan Jing Kids — the platform's dedicated channel for young learners, covering six educational categories: social-emotional learning, STEM, arts, language, health, and creativity. She found Taiwanese children's programming called Heaven Kid, and The Wonderful World of Chinese Characters, a series that teaches not just language but the stories and values embedded in each character since ancient times.
"I'm thinking, I'm teaching high school and middle school — will kids like a children's program?" she recalls. "Out of my surprise, students started hooked. Every Friday, they ask me to play it. They give me a number, I just play that episode."
She built reflection exercises around the content: what did you watch? What did you learn? How can you become better — in school and at home? Students would write short summaries and read them aloud in class.
“A sixth-grader told me: this is the best program I've ever seen. I want my parents to get it for me.”
Gan Jing Campus: A Channel That Belongs to the Teacher
Beyond the content library, what sets Gan Jing World apart for educators is Gan Jing Campus — a dedicated program that gives teachers their own free premium channel on the platform.
Leejun runs a channel called Speak Chinese Now, where learners around the world can watch her teaching videos and learn Mandarin Chinese. The channel lets her upload long-form videos, post short clips, write articles, send e-cards, organize content with hashtags, and even livestream — all within a single, user-friendly space.
"What I like the most is I can make my own teaching video, upload videos, do shorts — a 30-second clip. You can post articles. You can send e-cards. And everything is organized in your own channel. You don't need to go everywhere to find things. Just once you get to your channel, everything is there. It's amazing."
And unlike mainstream platforms, there's no anxiety about what might pop up next.
“Gan Jing Campus is focused on clean, safe, non-violent, and non-harmful content. It gives educators, students, and parents peace of mind so you can actually enjoy learning — not be concerned about being attacked by harmful content.”
The Student Who Played 27 Hours Straight
Remember those two students from that Monday morning class?
Leejun continued using Gan Jing Campus content throughout the year. She entered her students in Gan Jing World's annual #BeKindBeCool kindness campaign — a global initiative where students across the platform demonstrate kindness in their schools and communities. Her class won a prize in 2025.
But the real transformation was quieter than a prize.
"One of the students — the one who played 27 hours of video games nonstop — after he participated in Be Kind, Be Cool, and started learning from Gan Jing Kids and Gan Jing Campus, he decided he wanted to be part of a team. He got into sports. Before that, he was just locked in his room. Now he's happier. More personable. A healthier individual."
"That's not a statistic. That's a life changed."
She also noticed something shift across the class as a whole. Students began holding each other accountable — not to rules, but to a value.
"Before they leave the classroom, students push in the chairs and desks. They share their lunch with others. If someone forgets a pencil, they pull theirs out and say: kindness is cool. Those are the small things. But those are the things that matter."
"Shaping My Teaching for Three Years" — Dr. Adel Mansilla, Boston
Leejun is not alone.
Dr. Adel Mansilla is a language and literature teacher, a translator, a homeschooling parent of three, and a Gan Jing World user for the past three years. She has woven the platform into both her school curriculum and her home teaching.
"I've been fortunate to use Gan Jing World's premium channel for the past three years and it's been shaping my teaching and curriculum — both in the school setting and in my homeschool as well."
What keeps her coming back is not just the safety of the platform, but the depth of its content.
"The courses and activities on Gan Jing World are made by educators from around the world. But the main purpose is not just to teach a skill or some knowledge — it's actually to help the audience become wiser, kinder, and more centered individuals."
She points to the platform's ad-free environment as a practical classroom benefit that often gets overlooked: no more waiting through commercials with a room full of impatient teenagers, and built-in subtitle support for any video — invaluable for language teachers and schools with accessibility requirements.
“Seeing other teachers and families participate in the kindness campaign sparked many positive changes in my students, in my children at home, and most importantly, inside of myself.”
"A Safe Space That Supports Their Development"
Virginia Blanco, a teacher in New York, frames the value of Gan Jing World differently — not as a feature list, but as an environment.
"Building kindness in children from a very young age is foundational to their growth, to building their character. To allow them to share with each other in a classroom and in a space that is safe — like the Gan Jing World platform — it serves as a support for their development."
For Virginia, what the platform provides is not just content. It's the psychological safety for children to be generous with each other.
"If children can learn to support each other from a very young age — to encourage each other, to help — it'll only strengthen the future of our society."
How Gan Jing Campus Works
Gan Jing Campus equips educators worldwide with:
- Free Teachers Premium Channels — create, organize, and share your own video content, articles, shorts, and livestreams in one place
- Gan Jing Kids content — curated programming across six learning categories: social-emotional learning, STEM, arts, language, health, and creativity
- Ad-free playback — no interruptions, no inappropriate pop-ups, no classroom embarrassment
- Subtitle support — on any video, for accessibility and language learning
- Ethical AI content filtering — combined with human review, ensuring every piece of content on the platform meets safety standards
- Non-addictive, library-based browsing — no algorithmic push, no endless scroll; students explore content on their own terms
When you support one teacher on Gan Jing Campus, Gan Jing World matches that support to help another educator access the platform's resources — extending the reach of every contribution.
Why This Matters Now
The legal and cultural conversation around Big Tech's impact on children has never been louder. In early 2026, landmark jury verdicts in U.S. courts found major social media platforms liable for harm to minors — citing addictive design, harmful content exposure, and failure to protect young users.
Gan Jing World was built as the opposite of that model. No ads. No addictive algorithms. No content that exploits children's attention for profit. A platform, as Leejun puts it, that "works for people, not against them."
For educators like Leejun, Dr. Mansilla, and Virginia, this is not a marketing claim. It is their daily classroom reality.
"If you want to be part of goodness in technology — part of a better online experience — be part of Gan Jing Campus, Gan Jing Kids, and Gan Jing World," Leejun says. “You can be part of this grassroots effort to make the online experience something better.”
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About Gan Jing World
Gan Jing World is a family-safe, non-addictive, privacy-first video streaming and content-sharing platform headquartered in Middletown, New York. The platform has reached over 100 million unique visitors and serves users across more than 100 countries. Gan Jing Campus is its dedicated education program, supporting teachers, students, and parents with safe, values-aligned digital content and learning tools — at no cost to educators.
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