<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:31:48 -0400<br>> From: walter.bender@gmail.com<br>> To: bernie@codewiz.org<br>> CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education<br>> <br>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org> wrote:<br>> > Finally I can claim to be agreement with Bill Gates about something:<br>> <br>> And just in time for MS to announce that they too are making a tablet :P<br>> <br>> -walter<br>></div><div>But.... MS's tablet will come with an attached keyboard.</div><div>Caryl <br>> ><br>> > "Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record. You<br>> > really have to change the curriculum and the teacher. And it's never<br>> > going to work on a device where you don't have a keyboard-type input.<br>> > Students aren't there just to read things. They're actually supposed to<br>> > be able to write and communicate. And so it's going to be more in the PC<br>> > realm—it's going to be a low-cost PC that lets them be highly<br>> > interactive."<br>> ><br>> > Full interview:<br>> > http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/<br>> ><br>> > Slashdot commentary:<br>> > http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/06/26/1946211/bill-gates-says-tablets-arent-much-help-in-education<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > _ // Bernie Innocenti<br>> > \X/ http://codewiz.org<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Walter Bender<br>> Sugar Labs<br>> http://www.sugarlabs.org<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br></div> </div></body> </html>