012/6/27 Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com>: > And add a stylus so they can draw as well as fingerpaint, and guess what you > would have ... Finally, the Dynabook is here! :))
Eduardo > > Cheers, > > Alan > > ________________________________ > From: Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > To: Dave Bauer <d...@solutiongrove.com> > Cc: IAEP <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>; Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:53 AM > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Dave Bauer <d...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> >>> wrote: >>> > Finally I can claim to be agreement with Bill Gates about something: >>> >>> And just in time for MS to announce that they too are making a tablet :P >>> >> With a keyboard > > Good point. I give them kudos for that. I've never seen anyone use an > iPad productively without a keyboard. > > -walter > >> >>> >>> -walter >>> >>> > >>> > "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." >>> > >>> > Full interview: >>> > http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/ >>> > >>> > Slashdot commentary: >>> > >>> > >>> > http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/06/26/1946211/bill-gates-says-tablets-arent-much-help-in-education >>> > >>> > -- >>> > _ // Bernie Innocenti >>> > \X/ http://codewiz.org >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Walter Bender >>> Sugar Labs >>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Bauer >> d...@solutiongrove.com >> http://www.solutiongrove.com >> >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep