Through his largest donation in 17 years, Bill Gates recently reaffirmed his commitment to education last week when Bloomberg reported he was pledging $4.6 billion to his personal foundation.
Gates has prioritized education reform and, more specifically, educational technology through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation —which last month received a $3.17 billion pledge from Warren Buffett — for years. Notably, he`s been outspoken in the past that software companies must do more to help children learn more effectively with technology`s aid.
"It`s amazing how little the typical classroom has changed over the years," Gates writes on his blog last year. In fact, he addressed the education-technology gap five years ago before an audience of top professors and researchers at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.
"Software has only achieved a very small portion of what we want it to do and even what we need it to do," Gatessays in a discussion on how computing can improve society.
In a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" last year, he added: "A lot of the issue is helping kids stay engaged. If they don`t feel the material is relevant or they don`t have a sense of their own ability they can check out too easily. The technology has not done enough to help with this yet.
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