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Tablet PCs in the Classroom Sam Kamin, Chad Peiper. Lecturing with Tablet PCs. Learning with Tablet PCs. A Tablet PC enhances instruction by combining the advantages of using a blackboard and having prepared slides. The instructor can start from a blank screen or import PDF or PPT. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Tablet PCs in the ClassroomSam Kamin, Chad Peiper
A Tablet PC enhances instruction by combining the advantages of using a blackboard and having prepared slides. The instructor can start from a blank screen or import PDF or PPT.
Lecturing with Tablet PCs
Better than blackboard
• Projection: Easier for student to see
• Save, correct, and post notes to website
• Incorporate difficult-to-write material: images, graphs, statistical tables, etc.
Better than PowerPoint
• Adds flexibility to slides
• Improves pacing of class
• Encourages note-taking
• Keep record of the teaching process
In a classroom equipped with networked Tablet PCs, learning can be enhanced in numerous ways.
A dynamic alternative to paper
• As natural to use as paper
• As quiet as paper (unlike keyboards)
• Students can receive content from instructor
For more information, see slice.cs.uiuc.edu, or contact Prof. Sam Kamin at [email protected]
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THE BOTTOM LINE:
Improved learning through better communication
• Opportunities for creating a communicative classroom, where learning is enhanced by continual interaction with teacher and among students, are endless:
• Students can ask questions privately in class.
• Students can “live blog” a class.
• Teacher can assign collaborative, in-class exercises.
• and many more...!
• Instructor can monitor student progress and adjust teaching in real time using a “teacher’s dashboard.”
• Our research: Studying ways that computer analysis of students’ writing, and better user-interface design, can make a dashboard faster and easier to use.
For teachers, improves transparency of class.
Learning with Tablet PCs
and the Computer Science Dept.