Google’s always been passionate about spreading good and quality stuff. Open source is no stranger there.
A generation ago, teachers could expect that what they taught would last for the life of their students. Today, schools need to prepare students for more rapid economic and social change than ever before, for jobs that haven’t been created, to use technologies that haven’t yet been invented, and to solve social problems that we can’t yet imagine. That’s why Google’s Education Symposium is taking education head-on, with the premise that the future is not about more of the same, but about transformation – says on the company blog.
Computer science is the changing force of our time and who better to understand what future gens will need in the future than those working in CS companies, like Google. And to help teachers educate those generations, help to find strength and motication is also there.