Microsoft?has?invested?heavily?in?promoting?teaching?equipment-Microsoft?Windows,?student,?computer-IT?news?Microsoft?has?invested?heavily?in?promoting?Windows?equipment

According?to?foreign?media?reports,?Microsoft?will?be?donating?$?1?billion?to?help?United?States?school?districts?purchase?cheap?Windows?devices?priced?at?under?$?300,?to?meet?President?Barack?Obama?in?the?United?States?in?primary?and?secondary?schools?strongly?in?high-speed?networks?and?mobile?and?e-learning?"ConnectED"?program.

Microsoft?United?States?education?Chief?Technology?Officer?Cameron?Evans?said:?"Although?Microsoft?over?the?past?30?years?has?put?a?lot?of?technology?into?the?school,?but?have?not?lead?to?major?changes.?United?States?between?students?from?different?schools?in?touch?technology?means?there?is?a?huge?gap.?”

In?the?United?States,?has?long?advocated?increased?funding?for?science?and?technology?to?promote?the?educational?revolution.?In?1997?a?White?House?report?began?to?really?bring?attention?to?educational?technology,?but?the?results?achieved?since?then?is?not?particularly?notable.?Some?studies?inputs?questioned?the?benefits?increase?investment?in?education,?science?and?technology?funds,?some?data?also?suggest?that?improving?teacher?quality?is?more?important.?Last?year,?the?White?House?announced?a?plan,?intends?over?the?next?5?years?in?the?United?States?99%?on?the?primary?and?secondary?school?students?with?high?speed?Internet?access.?And?now,?Microsoft?and?its?partners--including?Acer,?ASUS,?Dell,?Fujitsu,?HP,?Lenovo,?Panasonic?and?Toshiba,?supported?by?United?States?elementary?and?secondary?school?district?will?provide?students?with?our?super?low?discount?Windows?hardware?device.?

This?generous?scheme?for?Microsoft?and?Apple?many?years?now?is?similar?to?primary?and?middle?school?students?discount?program?for?hardware?devices,?intended?to?make?children?and?youth?users?of?all?ages?to?develop?future?adult?user?groups.?Evans?did?not?deny?that?purpose,?but?also?stressed?the?"do?this?and?does?not?have?any?side?effects?or?harm".

Of?course,?training?future?users?is?a?long-term?plan,?while?the?immediate?goal?is?for?primary?and?secondary?school?classrooms?to?bring?more?technology?to?bridge?the?different?schools,?different?students?in?the?technology?gap.?Evans?cited?an?example:?over?the?past?winter,?a?school?in?West?Virginia?had?to?close?for?45?days?because?of?a?snowstorm,?and?if?we?can?teach?remotely?over?the?Internet?can?greatly?reduce?the?loss?of?students-"over?the?past?10?years,?we?are?all?used?to?have?a?phone,?a?PC?can?work?anytime,?anywhere.?"He?said,"?the?huge?gaps?in?the?application?of?science?and?technology.?”

微软投入巨资推广Windows教学设备?-?微软,学生,电脑?-?IT资讯

微软投入巨资推广Windows教学设备

根据外媒报道，微软将捐资10亿美元来帮助美国各学区采购售价300美元以下的廉价Windows设备，以配合奥巴马总统在美国中小学中大力高速网络和移动及数字化学习的“ConnectED”计划。

微软美国教育首席技术官Cameron?Evans表示：“虽然微软在过去30年里已经把大量科技带进了校园，但是尚未引发重大变革。美国不同学校的学生之间在接触科技的途径上存在巨大差距。”

在美国，长期以来一直有人主张增大对科技的资金投入以推动教育革命。1997年的一份白宫报告开始真正对教育科技提起重视，但是从那时起取得的成果却不是特别显著。一些研究对于投入加大教育科技资金投入的益处提出了质疑，还有一些数据表明提高教师素质更加重要。白宫在去年公布了一项计划，意欲在未来5年内让美国99%的中小学生用上高速互联网。而现在，在微软及其合作伙伴——包括宏碁、华硕、戴尔、富士通、惠普、联想、松下和东芝的支持下，美国各个中小学学区将会以超低折扣向学生提供Windows硬件设备。

微软的这一慷慨计划，与苹果推行多年的向中小学生打折销售硬件设备的计划可谓异曲同工，目的都是取得儿童及青少年用户的青睐以培养未来的成年用户群体。埃文斯并不否认这一目的，但也强调“这样做并没有任何副作用或害处”。

当然，培养未来用户是一项长远计划，而近期目标则是为中小学教室带来更多科技以缩小不同学校、不同学生在科技运用上的差距。Evans举了一个例子：在过去的冬天里，西弗吉尼亚一所学校由于暴雪天气而不得不停课45天，而如果能在互联网上进行远程授课就能大大减少学生们的损失——“在过去10年里，我们都习惯了有电话、有电脑就能随时随地办公。”他说道，“人们对科技的运用依然存在巨大差距。”