Can AI fix education? We asked Bill Gates - Casey Newton, TheVerge.com

The rise of smartphones has transformed the way students communicate and entertain themselves. But the classrooms they spend so much of their time in remain stubbornly resistant to transformation. Bill Gates is working to change all that. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft's co-founder and chairman has invested more than $120 million to date in a developing field known as "personalized learning." It's a diffuse set of initiatives, led mostly by private companies, to develop software that creates individual lesson plans for students based on their performance, coaching them through trouble spots until they have mastered the subject at hand. Teachers still play a central role in the classroom, but they do less lecturing and more one-on-one coaching. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/25/can-ai-fix-education-we-asked-bill-gates.html