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

[Dave Bauer]

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


> -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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