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Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education
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.'"
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.
On the other hand, it is excellent FUD. Said Gates in a pre-interview conversation: "We can't seem to build a tablet that anyone likes, so let's just diss the whole concept."
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
HA HA HA
Bill Gates sure pulled the wool over your eyes. He is as evil or more evil than Steve Jobs. At least with Steve Jobs you don't have to use Apple. Bill Gate forced everyone to use his crap closed technology.
For example
Why didn't Open Source Word Processors in the early days support Microsoft Word Documents? Was is
A) They wrote bad code.
or
B) Microsoft kept the format secret so no-one could compete.
And it says in your sig "Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you..." do you have amnesia or something?