Tablet PC Software from CMU Available soon

Carnegie Mellon is planning to set up a website where you can get free downloads of some of the groundbreaking educational software they are developing. To learn more, email us at tablettutor@sbcglobal.net

See previous posts below to learn more.

Apps include:
1) Tablet PC Math -- Practice math facts and problems up to three digits, with or without teacher supervision. Pen input facilitates rapid answering. No searching for the right numeric key! Numbers must be written neatly enough for the program to recognize, but the program is pretty forgiving, and it's self-grading. Kids love accumulating "points".


2) Flash Cards -- Make your own flash cards and then practice with them. Pen input allows you to quickly make a set of cards incorporating sketches. We traced the outlines of the states to learn the state names and capitals quickly with fourth graders. You can also import graphics to make prettier cards. We also used them for Spanish. The program presents a picture of something, the student writes the Spanish word.


3) Sketch Pad -- This app is a penabled whiteboard shared by two or more tablet PCs. One person draws or writes on his screen, and the strokes appear on the other person's screen. This one is great for tutoring, fun for games like Hangman, and terrific for visual collaboration.

Stay tuned. And for even more information about Tablet PC's in education, visit Robert W. Heiny's blog: The Tablet PC Education Blog to see the great post he wrote about this blog and other really good information.

http://www.robertheiny.com/2008/12/tablet-pc-tutor-arrives.html

The Perfect Tablet PC for kids

This small combo laptop tablet PC has just been announced by Intel. It has touch screen, stylus input and a keyboard, and it is affordable. If you are thinking about trying a tablet for schoolwork, tutoring, math drill or some of the other applications we've been talking about,
this might be the one

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/16/intel-gets-the-touchscreen-netbook-thing-right-with-convertible-classmate-pc/

Tablet PC Math from Carnegie Mellon University

Problem: Learning Math Facts

Teachers and parents have so little time. Kids don't like drill

Solution: Tablet PC Math System is a training system based on a tablet PC and a web interface. The system allows students to write directly on a PC to solve various types of math problems. It also allows students to write scratch work for more difficult problems such as long division right on the screen.

The students can have exercises assigned directly to them by a teacher or parent, or they can practice on their own. The teachers interact with the system through a web based interface on which they can give assignments, monitor student and class performance, assign exercises and and manage their classes.

The exercises are self-scoring. Teachers can review work in real time, filtered through a variety of criteria, as well as provide feedback on what they see in the scratch work.

The Tablet PC Math System was developed at Carnegie Mellon University to provide a pen-based smart environment for doing simple mathematics problems. CMU is looking for schools interested in doing pilot testing. For more information, contact Dr. Ananda Gunawardena via email at guna at cs dot cmu dot edu