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

[Gary Martin]

On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:53, Walter Bender wrote:

> 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:
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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:
>>> 
>>> 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.

Hey, what is this, a 1960s the touch typists convention? :P

--Gary

> -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."
>>>> 
>>>> 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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> Walter Bender
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