Educational+Technology+Quotes+&+Videos

==== **"We are living in an age when learning is not longer preparation for a job - it //is// the job...School is no longer the place to learn - it is just one place to learn in a rich network of learning spaces.. Every technology that you adopt should go further toward plugging your schools into this wider learning ecosystem, so that you can take advantage of all those resources that are out there."** ==== Tom Carroll, President of National Commission on Teaching and America's Future

==== **"Schools have always been designed for linear thinkers - everyone sits in rows - but what we've seen with technology is that it's giving kids a new way to express what they know...When you have a kid create a movie of what they've learned, as opposed to having to write and essay, all this creativity comes out - and different learning styles are being met."** ==== Matt Akin, Superintendent of Piedmont City Schools, Alabama

====** "This is about reinventing public education environments that are created with the student at the center of our attention...Students today live in a communication era, in a knowledge-based era - and unless we change ourselves, we will fail. This is as much a revolution of learning for us as it is a revolution of learning for them." **==== Alberto Calvalho, Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Florida

**"If we teach our today's students the way we taught them yesterday, we rob them of tomorrow."**
John Dewey

====** "Rather than focusing on specific technologies or specific problems, we need to equip students with those concepts that are common to all prolems, all technologies, all skills, ranging from workplace engineering to ethics to entrepreneurship." **==== The Jobs Revolution: Changing How America Works

** "The future has already arrived. Its just not evenly distributed yet." **
William Gibson

[|Video: Teaching in the 21st Century]

[|Video: Changing Education Paradigms]

**“It’s not about a cool application,” Dr. Brenner said. “We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom.”** Dr. Brenner