David Baszucki Quotes

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

When kids get stuck on one of our quests, we now have an app for that. It is so cool to know that now kids can use mobile technology to learn more about Poptropica's great adventures and solve its challenging quests.

Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.

All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

The online revolution of education has only just begun. There are two approached to solving educational problems: Government spending and Technology. My bet is on technology.

It's my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game.

The Internet is an interesting tool to use to reach people with things that you might call 'Disney learning,'

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

My daughter can work on an iPhone and iPad like crazy. That's their world. If you can use that, use it educationally. They can learn while they're having so much fun. They don't even realize they're learning.

In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.

There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

Wireless is the largest information, communication, and technology platform in history, and mobile broadband is transforming how we can deliver educational materials and experiences to all students. The technology now exists to support learning on a massive scale and advance the 21st century skills needed to compete in the global economy.

The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively.

With FutureLearn there are so many free courses and we like learning all the time.

As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.

This COVID-19 taught me I'm privileged to get classes from Stanford because they are one of the best in terms of business, but at the same time there's so many other ways to learn. So many webinars, or on the Internet you Google anything you want to... you're literally getting free classes. We should take advantage of it.