Heidi Hayes Jacobs Quotes

Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

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

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

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

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

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

A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.

There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.

There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.

The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.