<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Finally I can claim to be agreement with Bill Gates about something:<br>
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</div>And just in time for MS to announce that they too are making a tablet :P<br>
<br></blockquote><div>With a keyboard</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
-walter<br>
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> "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>
>  <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/" target="_blank">http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/</a><br>
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> Slashdot commentary:<br>
>  <a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/06/26/1946211/bill-gates-says-tablets-arent-much-help-in-education" target="_blank">http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/06/26/1946211/bill-gates-says-tablets-arent-much-help-in-education</a><br>

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> --<br>
>  _ // Bernie Innocenti<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Dave Bauer<br><a href="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com">dave@solutiongrove.com</a><br><a href="http://www.solutiongrove.com">http://www.solutiongrove.com</a><br>
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