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By David Rothman

So how will the kids fare at Philadelphia’s $63 million “School of the future,” built with well-publicized assistance from Microsoft? There are no paper textbooks, just e-books and other electronic content, and students can’t graduate without showing 11 “adult competencies,” including “dealing with ambiguity.” Hmm. The ambiguity requirement should serve the kids well while Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon and the other proprietary formatters keep the world in suspense about the victorious e-book format. The students will start out with laptops but later switch to Tablet PCs.

Related: Philadelphia Inquirer and CNet stories. (Thanks, Garson.)

 
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