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

[Alan Kay]

And add a stylus so they can draw as well as fingerpaint, and guess what you would have ...

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
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>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>
>> 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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>> --
>> Dave Bauer
>> dave at solutiongrove.com
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