Mick Taylor Quotes

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

The kids can't watch 'The Wire,' but there's great educational stuff for them to watch on TV if it is TV time. There are great apps on the iPad that are interactive and educational.

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

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.

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.

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

I had a strong interest in free online education, and I was interested in what videos and formats would work for it. A lot of education workers were very sceptical about what computer scientists were doing. It was only after the first visible success of MOOCs that they started to take it seriously.

In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom.

By early 2009, tens of thousands of students were watching tutorials on the Khan Academy every day. The software I wrote for my cousins had become so popular, it was making my $50-a-month web host crash. The possibilities surrounding the academy were so exciting that I had trouble doing my day job properly. And soon, I quit.

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

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

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.

For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

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