Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @08:26AM from the but-it-worked-on-star-trek dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a detailed interview on the future of education, Bill Gates was surprisingly down on tablets in education — considering that Microsoft just released Surface. He said low-cost PCs are the thing for students, and he dismissed the idea that simply giving gadgets to students will bring change. Quoting: '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.'"

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Re:i don't really like bill gates that much but... by MickyTheIdiot · 2012-06-26 08:41 · Score: 1, Troll

He's not lily white when it comes to philanthropy, either. A lot of that money is predicated on some pretty bad terms that benefit his buddies.
My personal feeling has always been that most of it was to make his image better... but I don't know him personally. I just feel that because of the fact that he gave so LITTLE money away to charity in the 90s and he got called on it... hard.