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

[Bernie Innocenti]

Finally I can claim to be agreement with Bill Gates about something:

"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

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