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“Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.”
David Thornburg
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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki
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“We cannot contort the character of the internet to suit our familiar notions of regulation; do not dumb down the genius of the Net to match the limited visions of the regulator”
Michael Powell, former Chairman, FCC
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“Computers have failed to make a difference because we have crammed them into traditional classrooms.”
Michael Horn, co-author, Disrupting Class
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“The fates guide those who go willingly; those that do not, they drag.”
Seneca
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“It is perfectly normal in times of great change to resist growth, to look backwards, to reject visionary leaders, to reject the obvious, to try to put on the brakes.”
Jennifer James, anthropologist
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The institutionalization of online learning is not about a system competing with the traditional K-12 schools. It also is not about disseminating new instructional technologies. It is essentially about educational improvement, school reform, and improving academic performance in America’s high schools.
Smith, Clark & Blomeyer
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"Every technology revolution takes twice as long as we expected, and half as long as we are prepared for" Michael Malone’s "Third Law of Technology"
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“If I celebrate the fall of the (Berlin) wall, it is because I am convinced of how much we can learn from each other. Most knowledge is learning from the other across the border.”
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist
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“The real Digital Divide is between schools and the rest of society.”
Allen Schmieder
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“The single biggest problem facing education today is that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.” Marc Prensky, “Digital Natives; Digital Immigrants”
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“The challenge is being able to live with not being able to keep up.” Steve Gilbert
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“I used to teach a course on interpersonal communications to a lecture hall of 500 students.” Mark Milliron
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“The Mosaic browser started out in 1993 with twelve users, and I knew all twelve.”
Marc Andreessen, Mosaic developer
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“Against online learning? Which part are you against: online or learning?”
Susan Patrick, NACOL
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“We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.”
Winston Churchill
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“If a game sounds frivolous, call it a simulation.
“If a simulation sounds too stuffy or expensive, call it a game.”
William Horton, e-Learning by Design
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“Do not limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
Rabbinic saying
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“You are your Google results.”Jackie Huba, Marketing author
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“Using technology to teach using traditional methods will only lead to traditional results.”
John Bailey, former Director, Office of Instructional Technology, U.S. Dept. of Education
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“I rarely approach any assignment or question without first consulting online resources. Practically every area of my life has been impacted by my experiences on the web. The Internet has been a gift to my life.”
High school girl
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“I would be very careful about making online learning too much like the old system because you will kill the disruptive innovation.”
Michael Horn, co-author, Disrupting Class
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“Telematics not only lets people do things differently, it also lets them do different things, and this is where its greatest power lies.”
David Thornburg
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“Many of the people who use Powerpoint have no power and no point.”
Mark Milliron
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“Enlightenments are always tipping points. And tipping points are always times of burning witches.”
Jennifer James, anthropologist
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"Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teachhim is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive."
Anonymous
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"Nothing is as expensive as living in the past.“
Robinson Davies
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“This is the 21st century. Ours is a world of 24 hour news cycles, global markets, and instant messaging. Our education system should reflect the times we’re living in.“
Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education
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“Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.”
Groucho Marx
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“It is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed - and are different from ours - as a result of how they grew up (with digital technologies).” Marc Prensky, “Digital Natives; Digital Immigrants”
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“Those who teach only face-to-face are guilty of professional malpractice.” Chris Dede, Harvard University
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“Technologies are relentlessly and seamlessly merging, and lines separating the traditional classroom, the technology-enhanced classroom, and distance learning are disappearing rapidly.”
Billie Wahlstrom, Univ. of MN
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“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
Bill Gates
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“For the first time in history our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we can not clearly describe.”
David Warlick, educator, author
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“Our dollars are better spent on learning than [on] bricks and mortar.”
Bill Green, Minneapolis Superintendent, on the district’s plan to close 6 buildings.
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“Our education system has mined our minds in the way we stripmine the earth: for a particular commodity - and for the future it won’t service.”
Ken Robinson
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“Should you wait for your learning Sputnik?”
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO, Giunti Labs and Chair, European eLearning Industry Group
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“When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.”
Jack Welch, former CEO, General Electric
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“We need to unlearn that teaching is isolating, unlearn that cooperative learning means good kids do all the work. Unlearning is harder than learning.”
Chris Dede, Harvard University
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“Time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Andy Warhol
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“Michigan Virtual University’s largest cadre of students is living in the University of Michigan’s dorms.”
Mark Milliron
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“I learned from books. These kids are learning from the whole world.”
Chinese teacher of English, Beijing
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“Technology is anything invented after you were 30 years old.”
Tom Kyte, Vice President, Oracle
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“It’s very egalitarian... In a virtual school, no one’s overweight, no one has pimples, and no one stutters. I don’t know what their color is, what their gender is, or what clothes they’re wearing.”
Bruce Droste, VHS
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke
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“…the medium is never neutral. How we organize and transmit our perceptions and knowledge about the world strongly affects the nature of those perceptions and the way we come to know the world.”
Harold Adam Innis
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it yourself.”
Alan Kay
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“(Online learning) will transform learning as we know it. Alas, we may escape the strangulation of the agricultural calendar.”
Pew Internet & American Life (2005)
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“Socrates met with students in the town square to dialog. We are moving towards Socratic Education 2.0.”
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO, Giunti Labs and Chair, European eLearning Industry Group
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“Infusing collaboration into the learning environment is what sets the online environment apart from the traditional face-to-face classroom.
If the learning activities do not use this collaboration, they are not taking advantage of the properties of this environment.”
Rena Palloff
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“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
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“Which leaders are telling a compelling story of the future – and which are offering a compelling story of the past?”
Jennifer James, anthropologist
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“Email is what old people send me.”Middle school student
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“The Internet was developed to help the country survive a nuclear holocaust. Schools are not going to be able to keep it out.”
Tim Magner, Director of Education Technology, U.S. Dept. of Education
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“Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.”
Jon Madonna, Chairman, KPMG International
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“When Shakespeare was 7, he was in someone’s English class. How annoying would that be!?”
Ken Robinson
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“Education is no longer a cottage industry; it is now a global export.”
Susan Patrick, CEO, NACOL
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“It is perfectly understood that in distance education we would sometimes want to meet face-to-face. Why isn’t it just as accepted for traditional education to meet online?”
Chris Dede, Harvard University
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“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“Governments are almost always about geography, jurisdiction, and centralized control. The internet is always about: unhindered by geography, dismissive of jurisdiction, and decentralized in its control.”
Michael Powell, former Chairman, FCC
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.
Marshall McLuhan
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“Why does it take so long to commit to the obvious, and why is common sense not common practice?”
Jennifer James, anthropologist
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"The Internet is an elite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call."
Noam Chomsky
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”The Internet is my education. I get all my information off the Internet. I don’t even look at books anymore."
High school boy
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“If we do not embrace technology, we will be obsolete.”
Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
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“Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.”
Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education
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“It’s easier to imagine the real world wasting away while avatars have interesting lives than it is to imagine an education system filled with River-City-type experiences .”
Chris Dede, Harvard University
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“Schooling has confused us into thinking that learning is equivalent to pouring content into people’s heads.”
Jay Cross
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“Virtual learning does not mean virtual people (avatars) in virtual classrooms watching virtual powerpoints.”
Tony O’Driscoll
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“Change is hard. Change is hardest on those caught by surprise…But change is natural; change is not new; change is important.”
Tom Friedman, “The World is Flat”
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“Online learning and virtual schools have the opportunity to become transformational within existing systems, not just an alternative to existing systems.”
Tim Magner, Director of Education Technology, U.S. Dept. of Education
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“We’re trying to modify an Edsel to a Corvette going 90 miles per hour.”
Texas college administrator comparing traditional education and distance learning
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“Where you live determines the quality of your education. Distance education is the great leveler.”
Tom Layton, Oregon CyberSchool
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“Today’s students, of almost any age, are far ahead of their teachers in computer literacy.
They prefer to access subject information on the Internet, where it is more abundant, more accessible and more up-to-date.”
National Ed. Tech. Plan
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“Technology can not improve education. The thoughtful application of technology may be able to improve education.”
Mark Milliron, SAS.com
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“The more technology pushes, the more humanity pushes back, and the struggle is for the balance.”
Jennifer James, anthropologist
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“Clearly it is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and on a more equal footing than at any previous time in the history of the world.”
Tom Friedman, “The World is Flat”
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“The classroom is flat.”David Warlick, educator, author
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“Playing games is an ideal form of preparation for the workplace of the 21st century, as some forward-thinking firms are already starting to realise.”
The Economist, August 2005
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“Never try to teach a goat to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the goat.”
Yiddish proverb
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Email Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the Serenity to accept the
emails I cannot get to, the Time to answer the ones I should, and the Wisdom to know the difference.”
Mark Milliron