Vint Cerf Quotes

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

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

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

The Internet doesn't just enable cool avatars and the shorter form. It also allows the deeper form: cross-linked blog posts, extensive research, simultaneous screens and raw debate footage that anyone can scan online, at any time.

The amount of education, in the most basic sense of the word, I receive on a daily basis through Skype amazes me. The technology is one of the reasons I wanted to join Skype and am eager to get Skype into every classroom around the globe.

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

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

New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.