The 21st century replacement for pen and paper is finely here – the tablet. University are developing software and teaching methods that take advantage of the tablet PC’s unique capabilities.
Tablets in teaching is not new. It’s caught on in the medical professions where doctors use them to take notes and update patient charts. But they’re especially handy in the engineering world. Engineering involves a lot of visual information. Take your PowerPoints and mark them up during your presentation, then send them to your students using Blackboard to create review sheets or study guides.
Presentations become livelier, for example, in engineering classes, faculty member can draw a partially completed circuit and ask the students to draw the rest. The students can submit their solutions wirelessly back to the instructor creating more interaction and engagement.
Learn how universities like – Cornell University, Howard University and Virginia Tech all use tablets in their teaching.
Resource: Wu, Conrinna. “Tablets have the Potential to Redefine the Way Engineering is Taught”. American Society for Education, Dec. 2006.