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How YouTube Took Over the American Classroom

5/22/202625 min

American classrooms are awash with YouTube. One survey showed that 94% of teachers have used YouTube in their roles. A WSJ investigation reveals the business strategy behind Google’s push to bring the technology to schools and looks at how YouTube is affecting children. WSJ’s Shalini Ramachandran lays out her reporting, and Jessica Mendoza talks with a math teacher who has been wrestling with YouTube in his classroom. Further Listening:

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Clips

Google’s Classroom Loyalty Strategy
Google Knew YouTube Harms
Son Outsmarts Parental Controls
Classroom Tech Whac-A-Mole
Pros vs Cons of YouTube

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Jessica Mendoza· Host0:00

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

  2. David Taylor· Guest0:08

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

  3. Jessica Mendoza· Host0:17

    It was the end of the school day, and David was calling from his classroom. He was wearing a Pirates jersey.

  4. David Taylor· Guest0:23

    I'm also the father of an 18-year-old, uh, who's just gonna be graduating in two weeks. So- Ah, congratulations. Yeah. And as you can tell by my sh- from my shirt, I live close to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so...

  5. Jessica Mendoza· Host0:36

    [laughs] But we weren't there to talk baseball. [music] 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.

  6. David Taylor· Guest0:57

    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.

  7. Jessica Mendoza· Host1:09

    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

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