[IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Eduardo H. Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/6/27 Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>:
>> And add a stylus so they can draw as well as fingerpaint, and guess what you
>> would have ...
> How not to have kids loose their stylus? Put them in a string? Have
> them lock in the tablet magnetically?

In the case of the original XO design, anything could be a stylus: a
stick, a fingernail, ... so losing it was never an issue: you'd
"construct" a new one.

-walter

>
> Eduardo
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> To: Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com>
>> Cc: IAEP <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>; Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Finally I can claim to be agreement with Bill Gates about something:
>>>>
>>>> And just in time for MS to announce that they too are making a tablet :P
>>>>
>>> With a keyboard
>>
>> Good point. I give them kudos for that. I've never seen anyone use an
>> iPad productively without a keyboard.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -walter
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > "Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record. You
>>>> > really have to change the curriculum and the teacher. And it's never
>>>> > going to work on a device where you don't have a keyboard-type input.
>>>> > Students aren't there just to read things. They're actually supposed to
>>>> > be able to write and communicate. And so it's going to be more in the
>>>> > PC
>>>> > realm—it's going to be a low-cost PC that lets them be highly
>>>> > interactive."
>>>> >
>>>> > Full interview:
>>>> >  http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/
>>>> >
>>>> > Slashdot commentary:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/06/26/1946211/bill-gates-says-tablets-arent-much-help-in-education
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> >  _ // Bernie Innocenti
>>>> >  \X/  http://codewiz.org
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>
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>>> Dave Bauer
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>>
>>
>>
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