Bill Gates
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.
People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.