Quotes About Collaboration

visionary behind the Digital Media and Learning Initiative. This project would not have been conceived, let alone

The Classroom and the World Wide Web

relationships between and among groups of students, faculty, and others across campus or around the world? That larger challenge-to harness and focus the participatory learning methods in which our students are so accomplished-is only now beginning to be introduced and typically in relatively rare and isolated formats. Most university education, certainly, is founded on ideas of individual training, discrete disciplines, and isolated achievement

who supports it, what does it do? We know that informal learning happens, constantly and in many new ways, because of the collaborative opportunities

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Report is a redaction of the argument in our book-in-progress, currently titled The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. That book, to be published in 2010, is merely the concrete (paper and online) manifestation and culmination of a long, complex process that brought together dozens of collaborators, face to face and virtually.

combining, probing, and developing insights online together.

The School of the Future: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The School of the Future in Philadelphia is unique in that it is the first urban high school to be built in a working partnership with

When I made art alone, it was a fantasy, but shared with Erin and Helen, art became a mission.

finding success. It leads to unpleasantness that I would rather . . . avoid. Even the greatest jockeys, the men everyone delighted to cheer for, cannot now get a decent mount, South or North. And if they do chance to ride, it has become perilous. The White jockeys collaborate against them to provoke falls.

value of face time: never write a memo if you can make a phone call, never make a phone call if you can meet in person.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.

Necessity unites.

No doctor is better than three.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

Individual honors come with team success.

If you laugh at it, you're stepping over the corpses. And if you work with him, well, it's worse.

Ha önök írók volnának - mindenképpen azok, ugyanis az olvasó ugyanúgy szerz?je a m?nek, akár az író -, hogyan folytatnák ezt a történetet?

The infighting and the purposeful division promoted by our political parties is a simple ploy to keep us from uniting.

Not only was all this collaboration conducted with no transparency, but it contradicted public statements made by Skype. ACLU technology expert Chris Soghoian said the revelations would surprise many Skype customers. "In the past, Skype made affirmative promises to users about their inability to perform wiretaps," he said. "It's hard to square Microsoft's secret collaboration with the NSA with its high-profile efforts to compete on privacy with Google.

People now ask me if I'm passing the torch. I always explain that no, I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much. And I'm using it to light the torches of others. Because the truth is that the old image of one person with a torch is part of the problem, not the solution. We each need a torch if we are to see where we're going. And together, we create so much more light.

It was the first time I witnessed the ancient and modern magic of groups in which anyone may speak in turn, everyone must listen, and consensus is more important than time.