nsquared educational apps demo on Microsoft Surface

Eric Havir meets with Dr. Neil Roodyn of nsquared to discuss his education focused applications on Microsoft Surface. The apps that nsquared produced are Letters, Numbers, Circuits and Chemistry. These are very simple proof-of-concept applications, but they have the potential to make technology in the classroom a very social experience.

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[pumpuppthevolume]

whatever happened with the simple cubes with letters or building normal circuit ......

[mssurface]

I just posted a video response to this post that gets a little deeper into the technology and the learning application of these apps.

The video speaks to some of Lynn's points, but doesn't cover the computer's ability to adapt and track the learning. That's also a great advantage.

Another thing to note is that with Microsoft Surface's vision system, you can use simple cubes, letters and other objects that can interact with the computer to tailor learning to the interaction and track results.

[CompuTable78]

Very nice. What protects ip if one were to develop applications for microsoft surface.

[lynnvm]

There are some advantages to table-top computing, not limited to the following:

1. Educators and students don't have to keep and store materials. 2. The application can be programmed to adapt to the learner's interactions and needs. 3. Applications can track data regarding learning outcomes, errors,interactions,and progress over time. 4.Applications can support and guide cooperative learning activities among pairs and small groups of students.