Imagine classroom of the future, and participate in the Surface Classroom Challenge

[Windows Central]

Microsoft believes education helps schools and universities, students and educators realize their full potential through technology solutions. Last summer, Microsoft offered Surface RT devices at a special price to academia.

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[gsquared]

My classroom of the future would look exactly like the classroom of the 1950's. The computers role in advancing education is greatly overrated.

A computer is nothing more than a tool to quickly perform the fundamental steps of whatever application a person is doing. Every person still needs to know how to manually perform the fundamentals.


As an example. I have heard in the artist world "we can teach an artist how to use a computer. We cannot teach them how to be an artist."