Earlier this week, I hopped on a call with a middle school teacher.

I'm David Taylor. I'm a National Board Certified Math teacher with almost 34 years of classroom experience.

It was the end of the school day, and David was calling from his classroom.

He was wearing a Pirates jersey.

I'm also the father of an 18-year-old who's just going to be graduating in two weeks.

Oh, congratulations.

And as you can tell by my shirt, I live close to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

But we weren't there to talk baseball.

I wanted to talk to David about technology and what it looks like in classrooms like his.

David was a tech director back in the day.

It was his job to make sure that his school had access to the latest technology.

I can tell you without any doubt whatsoever that technology enhances what I'm able to do

in my classroom with my students and makes it more dynamic for me to teach.

And over the past decade, one tech platform that has taken over classrooms across the country is YouTube.

As a teaching tool, David has seen how great YouTube can be.

But at home, he'd always tried to limit how much his son used it.

Then, a few years ago, when his son was still in middle school, David realized something.

I walked into the dining room one day when he was supposed to be doing his work, and he's watching videos.

I'm like, how are you doing that?

And he's like, well, I'm just in through my school account.

And I went, what?

And then that's when it clicked.

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