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The Global Classroom
ACM president and Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf.
Credit: Joi Ito
When I taught at Stanford University in the 1970's, I was always on the lookout for ways that technology could help to improve learning. The big innovation of that time was that my classes were broadcast around the San Francisco Bay Area. We even sent videotapes of lectures farther afield.
Today, teachers record and upload their lectures, and, thanks to the Internet, students anywhere in the world can watch them as many times as they want. Education — one of the last big economic sectors yet to be transformed by the digital age — is on the cusp of a revolution. And why shouldn't it be digitized? The Web is the fuel of the twenty-first century, and it will propel students of all ages, from all corners of the globe, into a successful future.
From Project Syndicate
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