<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>And add a stylus so they can draw as well as fingerpaint, and guess what you would have ...</div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div> </div><div>Alan </div><div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender@gmail.com> To: Dave Bauer <dave@solutiongrove.com> Cc: IAEP <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>; Bernie Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:53 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education </div> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Dave Bauer <<a ymailto="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com" href="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com">dave@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Walter Bender <<a ymailto="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti <<a ymailto="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org" href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > <a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> <a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > > > > > -- > Dave Bauer > <a ymailto="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com" href="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com">dave@solutiongrove.com</a> > http://www.solutiongrove.com > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>