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Microsoft's new school
deckkeeper:
From CNN.com:
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has famously called high schools "obsolete" and warned about their effect on U.S. competitiveness. Now, his company has a chance to prove that it can help fix the woes of public education.
After three years of planning, the Microsoft Corp.-designed "School of the Future" opened its doors Thursday, a gleaming white modern facility looking out of place amid rows of ramshackle homes in a working-class West Philadelphia neighborhood.
The school is being touted as unlike any in the world, with not only a high-tech building -- students have digital lockers and teachers use interactive "smart boards" -- but also a learning process modeled on Microsoft's management techniques.
Read the rest off the article at http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/09/07/school.of.future.ap/index.html.
Sounds pretty cool. Heh, lucky kids.
bosoxfan:
Well if this school is going to develop in a similar way to the windows operating system..good luck to the kids
kyopedlr:
there will be service packets sent out to "patch" these kids everyday... the problem will be the drinking and the drugs
-kyopedlr
MinLo:
Why doesn't Bill talk to MTV and make it a reality tv show?????
One question is school dismissed if the eletricity goes out????
bigdaveangell:
--- Quote from: MinLo on September 13, 2006, 04:12:53 pm ---Why doesn't Bill talk to MTV and make it a reality tv show?????
One question is school dismissed if the eletricity goes out????
--- End quote ---
Good question
Even though I really dont like microsoft very much this sounds like a great school to go to. Anyone think that they might have problems with things disapearing from the school
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