:00:04. > :00:08.doctors start their jobs. Those other papers. Now on the BBC,
:00:09. > :00:14.it is time for Click. On mine brain surgery tutorial.
:00:14. > :00:21.Advanced course. Step 1 - make sure your instruments are clean. Step
:00:21. > :00:31.two, ensure your patient is fully unconscious. Step 3 - prepared to
:00:31. > :00:46.
:00:46. > :00:51.make your first incision. Buffering, This week on Click, we are still
:00:51. > :00:59.taking the tablets as a new device emerges to challenge Apple and
:00:59. > :01:04.Google's tablets. And the former banker turning the classroom on its
:01:04. > :01:07.head. But is educating online the best way to tackle teaching? All
:01:07. > :01:13.that and the latest Tech News and amaze your friends and yourself
:01:13. > :01:19.with signs in Webscape. -- science.
:01:19. > :01:23.Welcome to Click. It seems like every major consumer electronics
:01:23. > :01:28.outfit has to have a touchscreen device or two these days. From
:01:28. > :01:33.touchscreen smartphones to hand- held games devices, touch is where
:01:33. > :01:37.it is out. In fact, without it, devices like tablet would not exist.
:01:37. > :01:42.While Apple with its iPad and Google with its raft of android
:01:42. > :01:48.power tablets slugged it out for control of the market, one of major
:01:48. > :01:56.tape player has so far remained relatively low key. -- tech player.
:01:56. > :02:03.But all that is about to change. Seattle's Microsoft has decided to
:02:03. > :02:11.properly weighed into the space. This report from Los Angeles.
:02:11. > :02:15.Sleek, yes. Powerful? Maybe. IPad killer? Not so fast! Microsoft
:02:16. > :02:21.certainly made quite a splash with the announcement of their newest
:02:21. > :02:26.piece of hardware - the surface tablet. Expectations were set high
:02:26. > :02:30.after the company announced a super secret press conference, location
:02:30. > :02:37.unknown until practically hours before it began. Anguish media
:02:37. > :02:41.queued up around the block. Video indoors, practically off-limits. It
:02:41. > :02:46.said journalists to, ironically, snap whatever they could have with
:02:46. > :02:52.their iPhones. Luckily, Microsoft was so kind as to provide their own
:02:52. > :02:58.footage of the event, including the announcement from dec mac that
:02:58. > :03:04.everybody had been waiting for. -- from the C O. This is the new
:03:04. > :03:12.Microsoft surface. OK, we have got the name but what is the surface?
:03:12. > :03:17.It is a tool to serve this your passions. To surface your ideas. --
:03:17. > :03:23.surface. Surface your creativity and you're enjoying it. So, it is a
:03:23. > :03:26.verb and not a noun. Either way, it is Microsoft's the bed on tablet
:03:27. > :03:31.computing, designed to integrate seamlessly with their upcoming
:03:31. > :03:36.operating system. But Windows seven was supposed to work seamlessly
:03:37. > :03:42.with mobile devices as well. If by seamlessly you mean almost not at
:03:42. > :03:48.all. What you are saying is that for touch alone with no other input,
:03:48. > :03:54.windows seven may be limitless? is what idiots. The icons within
:03:54. > :03:58.Windows are built for more accuracy. We are designed for touch optional.
:03:58. > :04:02.But Surface is designed to be different. Microsoft says after
:04:02. > :04:08.months of prototypes, they believe they finally got it right. Here is
:04:08. > :04:14.what we know. It will come into that flavours. One featuring a
:04:14. > :04:19.version of Windows eight Designed for mobile devices. It runs an ARM
:04:19. > :04:26.processor. The second variant will run a full fat version of Windows 8
:04:26. > :04:32.Pro. There will be a more powerful Intel Corp process of. Both feature
:04:32. > :04:38.a 10.6 Hinch 16 by Nine touchscreen and a US be sought. 32 and 64
:04:38. > :04:41.gigabytes for the IT model, different for the pro. Both have an
:04:42. > :04:45.in-built kicks down and work with the slim and a smart catch, and
:04:45. > :04:50.magnetic key pad. The biggest question about the surface ears,
:04:50. > :04:57.where does it fit in a competitive tablet landscape? Especially
:04:57. > :05:00.against its most obvious rival - the Apple iPad. So far, Microsoft
:05:00. > :05:04.has not released some of the basic information and has not said how
:05:04. > :05:09.much it will cost. But they say it will be priced competitively.
:05:09. > :05:14.Whatever that means. Which brings us to what we don't know about the
:05:14. > :05:19.Surface. In addition to costs and specs, Willett have mobile data can
:05:19. > :05:25.-- capability? What is the battery life and when will we get our hands
:05:25. > :05:29.on one? Questions like that may be responsible for a subdued reaction
:05:30. > :05:33.from the techs community. I like what I saw but I want to know more.
:05:33. > :05:41.I don't feel like Microsoft have really gave me enough information
:05:41. > :05:45.to be able to make a decision on how I felt today. And users on
:05:45. > :05:51.Twitter seemed to feel the same. From those who think it is too
:05:51. > :05:57.little too late, like this person who writes for gardeners of the
:05:57. > :06:07.features, there is no way they can out cool Apple. Stick to software.
:06:07. > :06:09.
:06:09. > :06:13.Of course, what really matters is what consumers decide to do come
:06:13. > :06:19.launch time. Rumoured for October. Then we will know if Microsoft is
:06:19. > :06:25.ready to take a bite out of Apple, or if they yet to scratch the
:06:25. > :06:30.surface. We were shown very brief briefs. It is hard to say if this
:06:30. > :06:34.is going to take over from iPad. My gut says no. They say the price
:06:34. > :06:39.will be competitive with other tablets. My gut says that other
:06:39. > :06:44.manufacturers have tried to do that and have failed. They failed to
:06:44. > :06:48.live from the iPad. It will come down to price and apps that are
:06:48. > :06:56.available, the experience and that real life. We do not have enough
:06:56. > :06:59.information on those things yet. The jury is still out. Nobody
:06:59. > :07:04.mentioned soon. Next is the Tech News.
:07:04. > :07:08.It seems Microsoft has been busy this week's, just days after the
:07:08. > :07:14.announcement of Surface, the company trumpeted the announcement
:07:14. > :07:21.of -- the launch of Windows 8. Phone eight sports a new start
:07:21. > :07:26.screen and now probably supports Skype. But existing Windows Phone 7
:07:26. > :07:31.devices will not be able to upgrade to the new OS. We are yet to hear
:07:31. > :07:35.any word on exact hard respects, warned stable pricing. Google has
:07:35. > :07:39.revealed that in the last six months of 2011, he witnessed an
:07:39. > :07:44.alarming rise in the number of times government requested
:07:44. > :07:49.censorship on online content such as YouTube videos and Sirte results.
:07:49. > :07:52.Google regards the situation as alarming. A spokesperson said not
:07:52. > :07:55.only because free expression is at risk but because some of the
:07:56. > :07:59.requests come from countries you may not expect. Western democracy
:07:59. > :08:05.is not typical -- typically associated with censorship. It said
:08:05. > :08:10.it complied with 47% of requests to remove content and with 65% of
:08:10. > :08:15.court orders. Facebook has been on a spending spree after acquiring
:08:15. > :08:20.Instagram a few months that it has now brought -- bought face .com
:08:21. > :08:24.which makes facial recognition technology for an estimated $18
:08:24. > :08:29.million. Site members already use the software to help identify and
:08:29. > :08:36.PAD photos of their friends. And if your computer is a bit slow, how
:08:36. > :08:43.about this? IBM's supercomputer is now officially the world's fastest.
:08:43. > :08:46.Nearly 1.5 times faster than last year's winner. It has over 1.5
:08:46. > :08:56.million Processor calls. Your fancy computer might have two or four if
:08:56. > :08:59.
:08:59. > :09:02.you are lucky. And,.... A couple of weeks ago, we brought to all of the
:09:02. > :09:06.big announcements from the E3 gaining expo from Los Angeles. One
:09:06. > :09:12.of the topics were covered was online gaming. There are two
:09:12. > :09:16.different concepts. One is Cloud gaming which allows you to play a
:09:16. > :09:20.game without a consul, by stringing it. The other is digital delivery
:09:20. > :09:25.which allows you to buy a game by downloading it instead of buying a
:09:25. > :09:30.physical disk. But both will have a big impact on games stores and on
:09:30. > :09:35.the second-hand market as well. And you have added fuel falls to this
:09:35. > :09:38.subject. One person in out and said downloading large gains or
:09:38. > :09:44.continually streaming content can seriously affect your home
:09:44. > :09:51.broadband connection. -- gains. India has service providers do not
:09:51. > :09:59.provide unlimited data, he points out. -- internet service providers.
:09:59. > :10:04.The deals can lead -- mean there are limits to data. How many
:10:04. > :10:08.parents will be pleased when a bill is doubled? And the network is too
:10:08. > :10:12.slow for them to watch things? And then there is the second-hand
:10:12. > :10:18.market. After all, he cannot sell something that has been downloaded
:10:18. > :10:23.or streamed to your machine. On this, trading up to pay the high
:10:23. > :10:27.cost of new games is the way that a kid and his parents can afford to
:10:28. > :10:34.buy the new games. Remove the trade-in and he will have to save
:10:34. > :10:39.longer or even this a few releases. Except for on his birthday. Another
:10:39. > :10:49.would like to see more of a mention of PC games, which he says are owed
:10:49. > :10:58.
:10:58. > :11:08.a lot by the console games which Not everyone is a fan of games.
:11:08. > :11:17.
:11:17. > :11:22.George would have preferred Got that, George. Seems to focus on
:11:22. > :11:26.violence, killings and mayhem. No wonder some of our population
:11:26. > :11:30.unsavoury and not very nice to know. There has been plenty of debate
:11:30. > :11:35.over whether violent video games cause or relieve real life stress.
:11:35. > :11:40.I am certainly not going to wade into that one here. I am a mindless
:11:40. > :11:44.idiot after all. Still to come: Teaching using
:11:45. > :11:49.technology and a virtual classrooms, courtesy of computers. And making
:11:49. > :11:56.sure we do not end up blinded by science, with the help of this
:11:56. > :12:00.week's Webscape. It is a cause of anxiety for almost
:12:00. > :12:06.every parent. Your child's education. Especially at a time
:12:06. > :12:09.when school systems are being criticised as underfunded and over
:12:09. > :12:15.enrolled. Too few teachers and too much material to cover into little
:12:15. > :12:18.time. But one Silicon Valley entrepreneur has come up with a
:12:18. > :12:26.teaching method that completely revise the basic tenets of the
:12:26. > :12:30.conventional classroom. It -- we went back to school to find out how
:12:30. > :12:35.students are logging on. What it tells us depends on one's
:12:35. > :12:40.new point. Remote learning 70s style. The
:12:40. > :12:45.teachers my -- might seem laughable now but, back then, the Open
:12:45. > :12:49.University was a radical idea. Turn British living rooms into
:12:49. > :12:54.classrooms. Forget correspondence courses and instead school and
:12:54. > :12:59.nation using the mass media of radio and television. Today the
:12:59. > :13:03.medium of choice is online video, thanks to widespread and high-speed
:13:03. > :13:13.broadband and robust the reassuring sight. Distance learning is being
:13:13. > :13:17.
:13:17. > :13:24.reinvented again. Make peace with the French in October of 1797.
:13:24. > :13:30.tuition lacks visual flair but they are proving widely, almost in match
:13:30. > :13:34.-- unimaginably, popular. Almost 600 lessons are watched every
:13:34. > :13:37.minute. It is the brainchild of a former banker who turned his back
:13:37. > :13:42.on financial gave the property world of children's education
:13:42. > :13:52.instead. It began with sending online tutorials to family members
:13:52. > :13:54.
:13:54. > :13:59.and it soon mushroomed. YouTube is not for serious mathematics but I
:13:59. > :14:04.gave it a shot. Traffic soared. The Academy now reaches more students
:14:04. > :14:08.in a single week an Open University has in its entire history. It has
:14:08. > :14:12.prompted people to think differently about their hobbies.
:14:12. > :14:17.This could be breaching 100 million students and could do that forever.
:14:17. > :14:21.This stuff does not get old. I thought it was an infinite social
:14:21. > :14:26.return investments. Today, the Academy offers over 3,200 videos
:14:26. > :14:30.for primary school pupils, second year university students and every
:14:31. > :14:35.level in the 20. Initially seen as an after-school study tour, it is
:14:35. > :14:40.now being implemented the additional classrooms. -- level in
:14:40. > :14:43.between. The library of videos and the sizes mac and signs but he says
:14:44. > :14:53.in a couple of years it will cover a broad curriculum. And almost
:14:54. > :15:01.
:15:01. > :15:06.every video is taught by a Keehan, Alongside the videos, a software
:15:06. > :15:09.perform generates quizzes and uses games to engage in students, making
:15:09. > :15:18.mathematics problems are more like games by using incentives and
:15:18. > :15:21.rewards. It is a clever combination. The exercises can firm uses fully
:15:21. > :15:26.grasp the concept before moving on, and the videos are far less
:15:26. > :15:30.daunting than a live teacher. Peoples are really nervous when
:15:30. > :15:33.they around a human being the first time they are learning something.
:15:33. > :15:38.There is something very comfortable with the video because you couldn't
:15:38. > :15:43.make you do not know something. a parent, do you want your child to
:15:43. > :15:49.learn by being parked in front of a computer? There is some concern
:15:49. > :15:53.about the possibility of repetitive stress injury for young students
:15:53. > :16:01.and there is concern about making sure we have Helbig bodies as well
:16:01. > :16:07.as minds. Until the social development. But now, the website
:16:07. > :16:11.is finding a home outside of its online origins. This high school
:16:11. > :16:15.was one of 25 Californian schools participating in the pilot
:16:15. > :16:19.programme, which brings the platform into the classroom.
:16:19. > :16:23.remember what it's like to be in a typical classroom's A teacher
:16:23. > :16:28.standing at the front of the room, lecturing. You, sitting at your
:16:28. > :16:35.desk and listening attentively. After school, you go home and do
:16:35. > :16:39.your homework. Online learning tools have fled the classroom.
:16:39. > :16:46.Students watch the lectures are mine at home and past time is
:16:46. > :16:51.working through problems with the help of teachers and classmates.
:16:51. > :16:53.This teacher leads a flipped classroom, also called a blended
:16:53. > :16:58.classroom since it combines elements of online learning and
:16:58. > :17:03.classroom environment. It is traditional -- different from a
:17:03. > :17:05.traditional classroom. Lamb Maura the support person for the students,
:17:06. > :17:10.guiding them and helping them pick right what direction they should be
:17:10. > :17:15.going in. But they are definitely in the driver's seat and deciding
:17:15. > :17:20.what to do next. This might be why some teachers find the site a bit
:17:20. > :17:25.threatening. But the goal is to have power teachers, not to
:17:25. > :17:30.eliminate them. A teachers don't have to give lectures any more.
:17:30. > :17:36.They can move up the value chain in become more closely tied to working
:17:36. > :17:40.with the children and being mentors and guides. School administrators
:17:40. > :17:49.said the pilot programme is a weakening DNA mathematician in
:17:49. > :17:56.students. I was confused and this has helped me a lot. I understand
:17:56. > :17:58.better. Not every student is a fan. Some are frustrated by a system
:17:58. > :18:05.that completely up Benn's the classroom model they are familiar
:18:05. > :18:13.with. So I can choose one of these students that has already completed
:18:13. > :18:16.it. They can get an instant read on who and two is not thriving. At a
:18:16. > :18:20.glance, teachers know who has mastered the concept and who needs
:18:20. > :18:25.help. They can then work with struggling student in small groups,
:18:25. > :18:32.or pair them up with another student who is ahead. After all,
:18:32. > :18:35.two teachers to learn. It is too soon to learn -- tell of the online
:18:35. > :18:45.programme will have a lasting impact. But teachers have seen a
:18:45. > :18:49.42% boost in maths test scores. The site is having any impact elsewhere.
:18:49. > :18:52.One third of the site's monthly users live outside of North America
:18:52. > :18:58.in the developing world, where skilled teachers and classrooms are
:18:58. > :19:04.thin on the ground. An offline version was introduced to this
:19:04. > :19:08.orphanage in Mongolia. The creator it makes a lot of work remains but
:19:08. > :19:17.with funding from heavyweights like Google and the Bill Gates
:19:17. > :19:25.Foundation, he is pretty motivated. He had this knowledge that people
:19:25. > :19:29.knew as being for the ivory tower, you need money to have access to it.
:19:29. > :19:35.This knowledge is now going to be commonplace. If you have access to
:19:35. > :19:42.a mobile phone, you will have access to their knowledge.
:19:42. > :19:48.Some people just know how to do really cool things. Like making
:19:48. > :19:54.gaffer tape glow in the dark. Or making liquid water freeze as it
:19:54. > :20:01.has fallen through the air. Take a look at what Kate Russell has found
:20:01. > :20:08.this week to kick off Webscape. Science experiments always have the
:20:08. > :20:12.power to amaze. Mainly because this is what is actually happening
:20:12. > :20:16.around us rather than being an allusion designed to trick our eyes.
:20:16. > :20:26.This YouTube Chal celebrates the awesomeness of the physical world
:20:26. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:31.by showing what is right under our noses.
:20:31. > :20:36.These are the kinds of videos that get people talking, and maybe even
:20:36. > :20:42.beginning to question the way we look at the world. The addition of
:20:42. > :20:45.a compilation, showing highlights, is a great idea, but it is to flee
:20:45. > :20:55.when watching the longer versions to see how science has created
:20:55. > :20:56.
:20:56. > :21:00.delusions. -- the allusions. We share a lot of memories in our
:21:00. > :21:08.social streams, which makes looking back over than a complicated
:21:08. > :21:10.Endeavour, requiring several dozen separate lock-ins. This is an apt
:21:10. > :21:15.you can connect to a multitude of popular streams that will extract
:21:15. > :21:25.everything you have posted, shared and liked, raking it in a neat
:21:25. > :21:27.
:21:27. > :21:30.horizontal time when you can share and in bed. -- timeline. You can
:21:30. > :21:35.edit your memory lane, taking out any photos you do not like or
:21:35. > :21:40.deleting any comments you are embarrassed of. You can also create
:21:40. > :21:47.new lines to follow a special occasion. It is a great way to
:21:47. > :21:52.collect and store wall of those scattered special memories littered
:21:52. > :21:59.around the social web. You can follow other people's memory lanes
:21:59. > :22:08.also. A nice feature is the memo Mail. NM Reid pulled from your past
:22:08. > :22:16.and delivered into your mailbox. You can download an Apple which
:22:16. > :22:22.lets you do -- relive your past with a shake of your smartphone.
:22:22. > :22:32.Remit desktop -- this remote desktop specialist has added an I
:22:32. > :22:35.
:22:35. > :22:44.phone app -- Deraa app to its basket of goodies. -- I don't
:22:44. > :22:47.appear and -- iPhone app. One of the problems when using an Apple
:22:47. > :22:51.device is the song and dance you have to go through to get any file
:22:51. > :22:55.on to it. It is not hard if you have the right software but it is
:22:55. > :23:00.still several clicks beyond being annoying. The app is incredibly
:23:00. > :23:04.easy to set up and use. Install the desktop stream app on any machine
:23:04. > :23:08.you want to connect to, they link your handset with a security code
:23:08. > :23:15.or your Gmail account and you are up and running. Even playing videos
:23:15. > :23:25.stored on your hard drive with sound. Just beware of your data
:23:25. > :23:27.
:23:28. > :23:37.consumption when not on Wi-Fi. That was Kate Russell. If you
:23:38. > :23:38.