David Taylor

I'm David Taylor.

I'm a national board certified math teacher with almost 34 years of classroom experience.

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

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

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.

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.

I was trying to do something as a parent to restrict his use and make sure that he was doing his schoolwork.

And he was using the school account to get around doing his work and accessing YouTube and other things.

And it wasn't until then that I realized I really got to pay better attention to this in class because I don't want to turn off YouTube as a teacher.

As a parent, sometimes I want to turn off YouTube.

So like I've got two eyes and I can see out of both of them and it's hard.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

I mean, I will say, all right, I need you to watch this video about solving absolute value inequalities and try to get your head wrapped around how this works.

But that's a good part.

The bad part is, is when you're working with somebody in class and they can just switch to a different tab and start watching some music video or... Basically, whatever they feel like looking at, they can.