My contention is that most students get distracted by music and social media because our current state of education is not sufficiently engaging to command their full attention.
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Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.
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People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.
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We will never get to the flying car era. We will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though.
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I would welcome processes that eliminate the need for doctors. We bottle-neck things around doctors, and it's not a good way of doing things.
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Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.
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Learning isn't meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never 'master' a topic simply by taking a class.
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Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive. Colleges are pricing themselves out of existence.
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While classrooms will be in use for many years to come, their value will diminish quickly as the online options become more pervasive. Many of the physical classrooms will be converted to eLearning laboratories, some to research centers. The real classroom of the future will take place inside the mind of the student, wherever they happen to be.