"Postel's Law", a rule of thumb written by one of the Internetâ??s founders to describe a philosophy of Internet protocol development: "Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others." Jonhattan Zittrain, The Future Of The Internet And How To Stop It.
The shift in focus from “information” to “knowledge” is an improvement. But I prefer a different concept: the “Creative Society.” As I see it, success in the future will be based not on how much we know, but on our ability to think and act creatively. - Mitchel Resnick, Revolutionizing Learning in the Digital Age
The problem with most contemporary games isn’t that they are violent but that they are banal, formulaic and predictable. - Henry Jenkins, Art Form For The Digital Age
The net is not a place for "professionals" to publish and the masses to merely download. Online, everyone is becoming an artist; everyone is a creator. The network is providing new opportunities for self expression, and demands a new kind of artist: the artistic instigator, someone who inspires other people to be creative by setting a positive example with their own work, and providing others with tools, context, and support. - Amy Bruckman, Cyberspace is Not Disneyland: The Role of the Artist in a Networked World
Today’s teenagers are comfortable as inhabitants of simulated worlds, but most often, they are there as consumers rather than as citizens. To achieve full citizenship, our children need to work with simulations that teach about the nature of simulation itself. - Sherry Turkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
Research indicates, however, that the use of technology as an effective learning tool is more likely to take place when embedded in a broader education reform movement that includes improvements in teacher training, curriculum, student assessment, and a school’s capacity for change. - Changing How and What Children Learn in School with Computer-Based Technologies . Jeremy M. Roschelle, Roy D. Pea, Christopher M. Hoadley, Douglas N. Gordin, Barbara M. Means
The promise of these new machines was anchored in the dream of increasing teacher and student productivity. More could be taught in less time with these machines and students could learn more and even better than from textbooks or even the teacher. The promise was invariably followed by sporadic and limited entry of machines into classrooms, growing practitioner disillusionment with the inaccessibility of the machines, academic studies documenting small learning effects from the new technology, and a final round of blame usually deposited on the backs of teachers. With another technological invention, this cycle of ecstasy, disappointment, and blame would begin anew. - Larry Cuban, Computers Meet Classroom: Classroom Wins
When we’re immersed inside a virtual world, we usually feel that we’re really sharing a certain space with other users, which is something that is difficult to achieve with any other existing technology. - Alja Sulčič, Virtual worlds in education and Moodle.
I am, for example, indedbted to countless students whose constant need for clear and concise explanations has, in that great paradox of teaching, taught me so much about my material. - Blair Whitby, Artificial Intelligence
