No time to blog! Sorry about that. In the meantime, enjoy this video documentation of the brief transitional period between having human professors and having all teaching be done by computers. (Via Cynical-C.)
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October 11th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
That’s seriously spooky. But I want one for my office!
October 11th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I want one asap!
October 11th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
That is pretty cool. I’d be curious to know if they have other objects (rolly things, springy things, blocky things, etc) that they’re able to add to the simulation. And object alignment gestures would probably be a lifesaver.
October 11th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Now if only it worked for Feynman diagrams.
October 12th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Absolutely the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
October 12th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
This software is gonna make physics more popular.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
[...] Â http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/10/11/computer-assisted-blackboard/ [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 12:47 am
Very interesting a tool, and the demo.
October 13th, 2006 at 2:16 am
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October 14th, 2006 at 11:54 am
We have a whiteboard like that in our physics department at Wayne State. We don’t have a program that runs carts though
, but the board looks very similar. You can draw on it, move objects around, and save your work as a graphics file. Pretty cool toy! I actually wanted to run our particle theory seminars there, but it’s a bit too small. The guy who put it in place for his “Innovation lab” (essentiall, a nice conference room) is no longer with the Department, so we all can use it. Rumor is that the lab with the board cost more than my startup…
October 14th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
[...] So, there’s been some discussion in blogosphere about a miracle blackboard (see here). I can’t help to brag a bit: we got this board in our Physics Department! Here is a nice picture of us (well, what you see in this picture is almost the whole “senior part” of our theory group here at WSU) talking about something and actually using the board: [...]
October 29th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
A local high school here in Melbourne is running a trial program with about 15 of those boards in the classrooms with intended use for a wide range of applications.
I think they are using the software from this site:
http://www.easiteach.com
which seems pretty similar to the one above.
of course, a cool whiteboard is no replacement for a bad teacher….
“But sir, *why* does the pendulum swing back and forth like that?”
“…”
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