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

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
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>> 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:
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>> And just in time for MS to announce that they too are making a tablet :P
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> With a keyboard

Good point. I give them kudos for that. I've never seen anyone use an
iPad productively without a keyboard.

-walter

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>> -walter
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>> > "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."
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>> > Full interview:
>> >  http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/
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>> > Slashdot commentary:
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>> >  http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/06/26/1946211/bill-gates-says-tablets-arent-much-help-in-education
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>> >  _ // Bernie Innocenti
>> >  \X/  http://codewiz.org
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> Dave Bauer
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