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Gates: Tablets Don't Fit into Schools
By Karen Haslam, Macworld-U.K. Jun 30, 2012 8:33 pm
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates thinks that tablets do not meet the needs of education. Instead, he suggests that a low-cost PC would be a better solution as it would allow students to be "highly interactive."
Gates was asked what changes would be required for tablets to make a difference in education by an interviewer from the Chronicle of Higher Education. In his response, Gates claims that: "Just giving people devices, that has a really terrible track record."
The difficulty with tablet devices is that "You really have to change the curriculum and the teacher."
He adds: "It's never going to work on a device where you don't have keyboard-type input. I mean, students aren't there just to read things -- they're supposed to actually be able to write and communicate."
More about that:
http://www.pcworld.c....html#tk.hp_new
By Karen Haslam, Macworld-U.K. Jun 30, 2012 8:33 pm
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates thinks that tablets do not meet the needs of education. Instead, he suggests that a low-cost PC would be a better solution as it would allow students to be "highly interactive."
Gates was asked what changes would be required for tablets to make a difference in education by an interviewer from the Chronicle of Higher Education. In his response, Gates claims that: "Just giving people devices, that has a really terrible track record."
The difficulty with tablet devices is that "You really have to change the curriculum and the teacher."
He adds: "It's never going to work on a device where you don't have keyboard-type input. I mean, students aren't there just to read things -- they're supposed to actually be able to write and communicate."
More about that:
http://www.pcworld.c....html#tk.hp_new
