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Theo Bastiaens: "With this Global Time online conference, AACE takes a brave step in a new direction. An innovative step, with an innovative platform, to serve the educational technology community" (An Interview with the 2012 Global TIME Program Chair Theo Bastiaens, by Stefanie Panke). Chris Dede: "Schools of education could shift their training and credentialing to encompass not only teachers, but also parent tutors, informal-educator coaches, and community mentors" (21st Century Education Requires Distributed Support for Learning.)
Janet Buckenmeyer: "It takes more time to design and develop the [online] course. It takes more time to monitor students in an online course.... How are faculty compensated in terms of workload and pay for the additional work an online course requires? How many students should be placed in an online course?" ( A Talk with Janet Buckenmeyer on Issues in Online Course Development by Lynn Zimmerman).
Billy Sichone: "My phone has been a valuable asset as I can check the internet for information at any and every time. For instance, I once took an international trip to two countries in a row and the phone was my only source of assignment submissions etc. I did not miss out at all" (A Student’s View of an Open University: An Interview with Billy Sichone, by Stefanie Panke).
Julia Kaltenbeck: "Seek ways to build and maintain your community! The community is the single most important success factor in crowdfunding and social payments. To put it simply: No community, no funding" (Julia Kaltenbeck: How Crowdfunding and Social Payments Can Finance OER, by Stefanie Panke).
Jessica Ledbetter: "What keeps me going is that I’m actually creating things I might not find the time to do otherwise. It’s nice to be able to learn with others and see what they’re doing. I always learn by looking at others’ code" (Open Learning at P2PU: An Interview with Jessica Ledbetter, by Stefanie Panke).
Joseph Polisi: “Today the arts are simply undervalued or completely ignored by many school systems around America. In New York City, teachers, principals, and entire schools are evaluated based on test scores in reading, mathematics, the sciences, but not in the arts” (Comments on Polisi’s ‘Put the Arts Back into Schools’).
Jason Ohler: "A new kind of presentation is in wide use for effective blog or web writing that I call 'visually differentiated text' (VDT), a kind of visual rhetoric that employs a number of writing conventions that are used to visually sculpt text" (Whither Writing Instruction in the 21st Century?).
Susan Murphy: "We are all so afraid that we're going to miss out on something, so we just skim and scan and re-post without really taking time to consider the source. We sometimes forget that there are real people behind the avatars. And that it's worth getting to know more about them" (The Human Face of Twitter: An Interview with Susan Murphy, by Jessica Knott).
Judah Schwartz "is a remarkable pioneer in our field because he saw technology as a way of looking at mathematics in very new and alternative ways....He likes to say the Ptolemy observations of the solar system were accurate. There was just one thing wrong with them and that was they were basically incorrect" (Judah Schwartz: Through the Lens of the Computer, by Frank B. Withrow).
Jessica Knott: "While a lot of these younger students are pretty gung ho to go forth and innovate technologically, they will be stymied in many cases by an aging infrastructure and restrictive technology rules. Perhaps even by the culture of co-workers who discourage them from using tech in their teaching" (An Interview with Jessica Knott: Teaching an Online Class on Course Development).
Emily Hixon: "If a teacher thinks that she/he is going to be able to talk 'at' students and they will learn, she is mistaken. Teachers must be prepared to engage students and use technology to support an interactive, meaningful approach to learning" (Integration of Pedagogy and Technology in Teacher Education: An Interview with Emily Hixon, by Lynn Zimmerman).
Shigeru Miyagawa: "Arriving at the station in Hiratsuka today I was surrounded by my native tongue… and people who look like me!... Something was strange…but what? Then I realized that no one was staring! I had always been stared at. A Japanese family in Alabama was very… unusual!" ('StarFestival: A Return to Japan' with Shigeru Miyagawa)
Henry Neeman: "Today, there are a number of ways for citizens to access supercomputing. Often, these are known as 'science gateways,' and they provide a simple interface to a complicated back end. An example is nanoHUB, which K-12 and postsecondary students can use to do nanotechnology simulations" (Supercomputing: An Interview with Henry Neeman).
Parry Aftab: "Unless we can make the technology safer and provide the right skills to use it responsibly and teach cyber-self-defense, we can’t expect students to use it, enjoy it or benefit from it. We owe it to the kids" (Cyberbullying: An Interview with Parry Aftab).
Nancy Willard: "It sure does not help us in transitioning to Web 2.0 if the news is that cyberbullying is at an epidemic level. But it isn’t. And my approach will demonstrate the positive norms of students, which should also translate to greater willingness to also use these technologies for instruction" (Cyberbullying: An Interview with Nancy Willard).
Jim Dator: "Some futurists say that the era of the information society is over and that the next era is the Dream Society of icons and aesthetic experience.... Elements of a Dream Society already exist in the behavior of the Millennials, but it may dominate the lives of the next generation, tentatively called the Cybers" (Next Generations: Reactives to Civics to Adaptives, as Foreseen by an Old Adaptive).
Marc Prensky: "Instead of just spending, and often wasting, billions of dollars to create things that are new, let’s try harder to fix what we have that’s already in place" (Simple Changes in Current Practices May Save Our Schools).
Idit Harel Caperton: "I think students learn more effectively by creating and/or building an entity for public consumption and through collaboration, connecting a learning community and using their creativity — learning to problem solve. . . . I am a longtime advocate of 1:1 learning environments in which each student has access to his/her own computer and broadband connection" (Idit Harel Caperton – An Interview at the Edge of Change, by Bonnie Bracey Sutton and Vic Sutton).

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