Microsoft Designs a School :(

[Alexa Stott]

I would love to attend that school.




Just so I can install Ubuntu on the laptop for the school.

I guess this would be the first school closed due to a BSOD...

[Madison]

(I'm biased.)

The company is making an active, legitimate effort toward doing something about reforming a failing system of public schools and the best we have to offer for discussion is some ill-formed jokes about software crashing? Weak.

[artdutra04]

Even though Microsoft has its ups and downs when it comes to software, I would attend a school like this. Any corporation as large as Microsoft has the money and resources to help devise better ways to educate students. Even if these students are using Windows and Office software, the end result will be students who are much more competant in areas such as computers, business, leadership, technology, current events, etc. than other students the same age in other schools.

Sometimes in life you need to overlook the short term to see the long term potential.

[thegathering]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

(I'm biased.)

The company is making an active, legitimate effort toward doing something about reforming a failing system of public schools and the best we have to offer for discussion is some ill-formed jokes about software crashing? Weak.

feel free to provide a discussion then


I see this as another attempt to expand the Microsoft monopoly. They've already tapped the government, which then ran Windows in the school systems. This is just an attempt to further guaruntee Microsoft's future by teaching students to rely on "Microsoft koolaid" as our team leader at TKC Communications likes to say.

[Koko Ed]

Corporate sponsored schooling.
I don't know if it's a good or bad thing.
It would be intersting for FIRST teams. They'd have built in sponsoring.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Corporate sponsored schooling.
I don't know if it's a good or bad thing.
It would be intersting for FIRST teams. They'd have built in sponsoring.

It would be cool if the school had a shop, that's for sure.

It seems to have lots of opportunity and potential, and students who want to be in the program. I'd like to hear from some of the teachers regarding the training and the expectations and how all of it is applied.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Jane

It would be cool if the school had a shop, that's for sure.

It seems to have lots of opportunity and potential, and students who want to be in the program. I'd like to hear from some of the teachers regarding the training and the expectations and how all of it is applied.

It'd be nice if we could have a shop at our school....

[Andrew Blair]

Sounds like this school:

http://www.ossm.edu/index.htm

I met a kid from there- really, really smart. I think these schools are doing something right- not everything can go perfectly. Also is like the school Oprah did a special on that had a FIRST team.

But I agree- they should have a shop.

[thegathering]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

Sounds like this school:

http://www.ossm.edu/index.htm

I met a kid from there- really, really smart. I think these schools are doing something right- not everything can go perfectly. Also is like the school Oprah did a special on that had a FIRST team.

Perhaps, but that is a science and mathematics school, this is a corporation ran school. I go to an IT school that has all the comforts of a modern day corporate server room, but we're ran by the government, not a software company.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Corporate sponsored schooling.
I don't know if it's a good or bad thing.

Have you ever read the book "Jennifer Government" by Max Berry? If not, pick it up when you have some time. It's a quick read, but gets the point across.

Originally Posted by Publishers Weekly

The most unnerving thing about Max (formerly Maxx) Barry's new novel is that its hyperbolic vision of the not too distant future doesn't seem too far out there at all. The world is run by giant corporations who literally go to war with one another; Australia and the U.K. are annexes of the United States; the police are for sale to the highest bidder; and employees take the last name of their employers. Thus, the cast of characters includes John Nike, Georgia Saints Nike (she volunteers at the Church of Latter-Day Saints), Billy NRA, Buy Mitsui, Hayley McDonalds, and so forth. Jennifer Government, a former advertising executive turned government agent, is hot on the trail of the villainous John Nike for murder. As the mastermind of the latest Nike campaign, he planned the murder of 14 teenagers in order to build up the street reputation for Nike's new $2,500 sneaker, Mercurys. Frederick's reading of this wacked-out morality play is first-rate. His obvious enjoyment of the satire fuels his performance. Especially entertaining are his stereotypical foreign accents, which would seem out of place under most circumstances, but they fit the comic book-type characters waging chaos in this saga like an Aris glove.

In the book, all schools are sponsored by corporations, and the schools compete just like the corporations do. "Microsoft" schools and "McDonalds" schools are the two big ones mentioned in the novel. In fact, Hayley McDonalds wishes she were Hayley Microsoft because they get better computers at that school. It's an interesting read, and an interesting idea.

[Ashley Weed]

I actually attended a corporate funded college within Penn State. The college of IST is funded by numerous fortune 500 companies, and the principles that are taught within the college are to mold the perfect employee for the world that we live in today. I do not at all regret this action, as it was an amazing experience having everything available first-priority from all sponsoring companies. One additional attribute of such an environment is the companies automatically hiring the employee that was created for them by the program that they created.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I personally don't like corporate funded higher education. Mostly because I don't believe they offer as good an education as one that's been set for 100+ years. There are 2 corporate funded schools here in the QCA. Hamilton Technical College and Kaplan University. Both of them offer the same things, mainly computers, CAD, CNA, and paralegal stuff. But at an expensive price. A friend of mine went to Hamilton to get his CAD degree and didn't think it was worth his time and money. He got his degree but they didn't help him find a job and they didn't teach him much of anything but CAD. That last part could be good but not in the general sense. Good for a quick education I guess.

It would be nice to go to that school. The students have an advantage with the technology at their fingertips. Especially since it's in a low-income area. Many of the students have indefinitely been given a second chance at education because Microsoft took on this endeavour. Now if only Microsoft would have paid for it.

[Cuog]

It is certainly a good idea that microsoft wants to help up the technology in schools but the problem is i know people. A High tech school is a playground for computer-able pranksters hackers whatever you want to call them. I know for a fact with the limited technology in my school(Just desktops in comp labs) students still find ways to cause problems.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

(I'm biased.)

The company is making an active, legitimate effort toward doing something about reforming a failing system of public schools and the best we have to offer for discussion is some ill-formed jokes about software crashing? Weak.

Well done Microsoft for brining your products and excellent services to the Philadelphia school system. As their recent great advertising states, "Your potential, our passion," you are fully determined to bring your award winning, easy to use software and products to let our kids meet their potential.

Thanks.

[Mike]

Hey, I like stereotypes!

Everything Microsoft does is wrong.
All Apple users wear black turtlenecks and sip Starbucks.
Linux users are arrogant snobs who are convinced their product is superior.



Lets just disregard the fact that Bill Gates is one of the largest philanthropists since Andrew Carnegie.