Interactive Learning Quotes

Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

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.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

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

I love 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' because it's a real kids' show. There hasn't been a real kids' show since 'Dora the Explorer.' It mixes hip-hop with being a kid. Hip-hop came from youths anyway. It's just a great, funky show.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

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

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and experimenting; not passively listening.