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Bill Gates On Educating the World
theodp writes During February, Bill Gates is playing Perry White at The Verge, expounding on the big bets the Gates Foundation is making to improve the world over the next 15 years. One of those bets is that online classrooms can help the world catch up. Gates' vision of universal online education extends to those who struggle with basic literacy and currently lack online access, far beyond the reach of MOOCs like Coursera, EdX, and Udacity, which have enjoyed their greatest success with higher-level courses aimed at the middle class. "Gates' vision — a wave of smartphones that can act as ubiquitous, cheap computers — is central to solving this problem," explains The Verge's Adi Robertson. "And unfortunately, we're not there yet." But eventually, Gates is betting that a world-class education will only be a few taps away for anyone in the world. And that's when things get really interesting. "Before a child even starts primary school," Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in their Foundation's 2015 letter, "she will be able to use her mom's smartphone to learn her numbers and letters, giving her a big head start. Software will be able to see when she's having trouble with the material and adjust for her pace. She will collaborate with teachers and other students in a much richer way. If she is learning a language, she'll be able to speak out loud and the software will give her feedback on her pronunciation."
Why not let the kids choose for themselves what they like?
WOOOOOSHHHHHH
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
...we can all believe that the 31.6 billion dollars his foundation has GRANTED since inception internationally is not much of a personal sacrifice in relative terms...
You're a bit confused. That is somewhat close to the amount the foundation was _endowed_ with, but actual grants are not remotely close to that. Skeptics point out that the foundation smells like a gigantic tax dodge... the money remains under Bill Gates' control with not a cent of tax paid on it.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Its a big propaganda campaign that also serves as a giant tax dodge, "philanthropic leverage" comes to mind:
http://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable-giving-ethics/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/31/bill-gates-corporate-profit-vs-humanity.aspx
This has been discussed before:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/05/0332218/a-critical-examination-of-bill-gates-philanthropic-record
controversial global health policies:
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-08-31/news/53413161_1_hpv-vaccine-cervarix-human-papilloma-virus
this is also coupled with investments in GMO Monsanto
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/sep/29/gates-foundation-gm-monsanto
Many accuse Bill Gates foundation of destroying education:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/education/22gates.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Same dirty game playing old policies old Bill used to use at Microsoft but now in the public "philanthropy" arena.
Maybe you need to leave the comforting confines of mom's basement more often. Here's one from about six months ago. It affects Windows 7, 8.1 and Server 2008:
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...