Ken Collura of Tablet PC high school Bishop Hartley reports this morning that Tablet PCs and digital ink technology are making an impact in education.
About 150 people with Tablet PCs are at Purdue University Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology in Education 2006 (WIPTE 2006).
These are great titles for keynotes.
Yesterday’s keynote by Barbara Weaver “The Case of the Missing Ink.”
Today’s keynote by Joel Backon, “Student Minds & Pen Technologies: A Wonderful Pedagogical Marriage”.
Congratulations, educators! We’ll watch for more reports.
I really wanted to attend this, but the end of our quarter is next week so I didn’t feel I could get away :(It’s great that they have papers online (even though they’re not nearly as dynamic as actually being there)
I agree with you, Scotty. It would be great to be there. And, I like the Purdue campus. I see the organizers call this the First … Maybe we’ll be able to attend the Second … We’re fortunate to have Ken Collura and others there to report what the see, hear and learn. Keep up the good work. Many of us appreciate your comments.
I attended the workshop and what stood out to me as an instructional technology consultant was that student learning seemed more important than “cool new toys.” Over and over people wanted to use the tablet to improve interaction in the classroom. Not something I am used to hearing about in Higher Ed.
Thanks, Jen, for your encouraging comments. I’m sure many of us appreciate people talking about Tablets and digital ink as learning tools. At the same time, I still like “cool toys” also.
I too wanted to attend this conference after serving as a reviewer for their program. I met Dave Berque from DePauw when we both spoke in Philly last year and had the pleasure of DyKnow joining us in Akron for the Midwest Conference on Student Learning in Economics last fall. Dave is the number one guy behind this conference and I hope to see him at this year after year. Clearly the Tablet is the next revolution in education and percisely because it does help improve student learning and makes their professors more efficient.
Pace University is running a conference for people involved with Tablet PCs in secondary and higher education.The conference focuses on innovations and applications in Pen-based Computing for university and high school faculty. The conference is free with registration. Date: April 26, 2006 — April 27, 2006 Time: 8:30 AM — 6:00 PM Campus: New York City Downtown , Multipurpose Room Audience: This event is open to the public and Pace community. http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/contentsched2/event_details.cfm?id=3945
Thanks Steve and Lora for adding your observations. Your support of ink enabled computing helps set to allow students to increase their learning rates. Keep up the good work.
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