Jessica Mendoza

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

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

He was wearing a Pirates jersey.

Oh, congratulations.

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.

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.

David was one of dozens of teachers and parents that my colleague Shalini Ramachandran spoke with.

She's been looking into this increasingly blurred line between YouTube for school and YouTube for fun.