Quotes

"Economically disadvantaged students..use the computer for remediation and basic skills...while more affluent students...learn to tell computers what to do." Towards Digital Equity by Gwen Solomon and Nancy Allen

"Students can either be passive recievers of media messages or they can be digital content creators and critical thinkers." Matthew Needleman

"Film is not the language of the 21st Century. It is the language of the 20th Century and schools are just catching up." Matthew Needleman

"It has been said that every company is a customer service company, and that every company is a technology company. In the future, everyone just might find themselves in the broadcasting business." BEYOND YOUTUBE NEW USES FOR VIDEO, ONLINE AND OFF By: Hoffmann, Leah, __Inc__., Oct2007

"The number of new videos uploaded daily on YouTube.com jumped from 20,000 in the beginning of 2006 to 65,000 in the beginning of 2007. iTune usage grew 47.5% in 2006 alone. 9.2 million Americans have downloaded a podcast; 5.6 millioin download video." Point of Disconnect: Internet Traffic and the U.S. Communications Infrastructure, by Michael Kleeman, __International Journal of Communications__, 2007. http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/207/106

"Internet video site YouTube has said its users are now watching more than 100 million videos per day." __BBC News__, July 17, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5186618.stm