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

[Caryl Bigenho]

> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:31:48 -0400
> From: walter.bender at gmail.com
> To: bernie at codewiz.org
> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education
> 
> 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
> 
> -walter
>But.... MS's tablet will come with an attached keyboard.Caryl  
> >
> > "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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