Joshua Holden (Rose-Hulman, mathematics faculty) presented a very interesting poster at WIPTE this year, "Math in Your Hands: Integrating the Use of Maple with the Collaborative Use of Wireless Tablet PCs"...
From Joshua's new blog, he writes about his poster:
This poster is a preliminary report on a Fall 2008 project to explore the use of tablets in calculus classes in order to foster student engagement by incorporating active learning and collaborative activities. The use of tablets can make many improvements in a classroom, but mathematics classes pose special challenges which have not yet been systematically explored at Rose-Hulman. The most difficult of these from a technical perspective is the integration of Maple with other Tablet PC software. This project explores ways to achieve this integration as well as other pedagogical improvements which the use of Tablet PCs could bring to mathematics classrooms at Rose-Hulman.
Anyone teaching mathematics should check out his blog, as it has some other terrific postings that you will find relevant and interesting.
Nice work, Joshua! Thank you for sharing...
Jim Vanides, B.S.M.E, M.Ed.
Worldwide Education Grant Strategy
HP Global Social Investment
Hewlett-Packard
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Posted
10-31-2008 8:43 PM
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jgvanides