What Would Google Do?
Jeff Jarvis
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning.....Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help students vet facts and judge reliability.”
“Writing in Library Journal, Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of Book envisioned a digital ecology in which "parts of books will reference parts of other books. Books will be woven toghether out of components in remote databases and servers." Kevin Kelly wrote in The New York times Magagzine: "In the the new world of books, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages.”
“Indeed, education is one of the institutions most deserving of disruption--and with the greatest opportunities to come of it.”
“You hand over control, you start winning.”
“There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of course, trust is given to them. Trust is earned with difficulty and lost with ease. When those institutions treat constituents like masses of fools, children, miscreants,or prisoners, when they simply don't listen,it's unlikely they will engender warm feelings of mutual respect. Trust is an act of opening up. It's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand.”
“In the real world, the tests are all open book.”
“We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.”
“The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.”
“The cost of independence has dropped.”
“Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.”
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