Here is an updated list of case studies about mobile PCs with Tablet or Touch technology used in education.

Blackboard & Tegrity

Colorado Technical University - Sioux Falls

British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)

Tablet PCs in schools: Case Study Report

• St Mary's RC Primary School
• Green Lane Infant School
• St Peter's CE (C) Primary School
• St Willibrord's Primary School
• Engayne Primary School
• St Francis RC Primary School
• Wylde Green Primary School
• Queensbury School
• Invicta Grammar School
• Cornwallis Technology College
• The Coleshill School
• Wilmslow High School

Tablet PCs in schools: A review of literature and selected projects

DyKnow

Auburn City Schools – Auburn, AL

Bishop Hartley High School – Columbus, OH

King’s Ridge Christian School – Atlanta, GA

North Daviess Elementary School – Elnora, IN

Park Tudor School – Indianapolis, IN

St Ursula Academy – Cincinnati, OH

DePauw University – Green Castle, IN

Joliet Junior College – Joliet, IL

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology – Terre Haute, IN

University of Richmond – Richmond, VA

 

Fujitsu

DePaul Catholic High School & update – Wayne, NJ

Virginia Tech College of Engineering – Blacksburg, VA

 

MPC Corporation (previously Gateway)

Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School (KOAM) – Joplin, MO

U.S. Airforce Academy – Colorado Springs, CO

Winona State University - Winona, Minnesota

 

HP

Brookfield High School – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Canutillo Middle School - Canutillo, TX

Culver Elementary School – Culver, OR

Denver School of Science and Technology – Denver, CO

Dunbar Primary School – Lufkin, TX

Grand Manan Community School – New Brunswick, Canada

International School of Brussels – Brussels, Belgium

J.A. Hughes Elementary School – Red Lake Falls, MN

Monte Cassino School – Tulsa, OK

Trinity School – Atlanta, GA

 

Grove City College – Grove City, PA

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College – Green Bay, WI

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology – Terre Haute, IN

Universidad Technologica Nacional- Argentina

 

Lanway Corporate Business Systems

The Islay High School - Scottland

 

Microsoft

Arino-Alloza Rural School – Aragon, Spain

Bishop Hartley High School – Columbus, OH

Brookfield Zoo - Chicago, IL

Cincinnati Country Day School – Cincinnati, OH

Cornwallis School – Maidstone, Kent, UK

Crescent Girls’ School – Singapore

Frankston High School – Melbourne, Australia

Hoover City Schools – AL

Jefferson County Public Schools – Louisville, KY

Mulgrave School – West Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Northern Lights Public School – Aurora, Ontario, Canada

Ritsumeikan Primary School – Kyoto City, Japan

Torrey Pines High School – San Diego, CA

York Region District School Board – York Region, Ontario, Canada

 

Kansas State University – Manhattan, KS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 4/2/2003 and 1/29/2005 - Cambridge, MA

Northeastern University College of Business Administration -

Politecnico Innovazione – Italy

Purdue University - IN

Republic Polytechnic of Singapore – Singapore

Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY

University of Iowa – Iowa City, IA

University of Toronto Medical School – Toronto, Canada

University of Vermont School of Business Administration – Burlington, VT

Winona State University - Winona, Minnesota

 

Motion Computing

Celebration High School - Austin, TX

 

National University of Ireland

Using Tablet PC for Electronic Mark-up of Assessments

 

RM

Cornwallis School - Kent, UK

Invicta Girls Grammar School - Kent, UK

St. Bartholomew’s School – Newbury, UK

 

Samsung

The Deans Primary School – Swinton, Salford, UK

 

TechLearning

Case Study: Learning with Tablet PCs, Bishop Hartley

 

Toshiba

Brophy College Prep - Phoenix, AZ - Video: 300K 110K

Greendale High School - Wisconsin

 

Purdue University – IN

Newsweek published its annual ranking of U.S. 1,300 public high schools. (Read about the methodology.) Is the school your child attends on the list?

Mark Wagner has obviously worked hard on the content for the El Morro Intro to Tablet PC Workshop. Just pop over to the wiki to read the list of topics covered. I'd love to see even more on using Tablet PCs for classroom management, as well as annotating and grading papers. Tablets are great tools for these types of tasks.

Recently, I've received questions about what application teachers can use on a Tablet PC that would be like a transparency or overhead.

Check out WriteOn, a project out of Virginia Tech. Teachers can annotate and "play back" to reveal information. This would be particularly useful for complex formulas, equations, and staging labels.

My two teenage nieces primarily use home computers for school work. Unfortunately, their school uses computers in labs only.

Current PC of choice seems to be the well used, beloved HP TC1100 Tablet PCs, which they say do the trick most of the time. They mainly write essays in Word, quick notes in Journal, and the calculator. Next comes IE with search engines helping them find their way to whatever word they need to use. It's solitary work, not collaborative and yes, homework still gets printed on paper.

 I know Rob's kids use PCs in their homeschool. What about the rest of you. How do your kids use computers for school work? What do they need created or enabled to get them over that next edge?

LectureScribe is a whiteboarding application that you can use with a Tablet PC or interactive whiteboard. The app has a great ink playback features, which is particularly useful for revealing complex proofs, concepts, or other information.

In a Clemson University newsletter, Brian Dean, who wrote the app, described how he uses this Flash application:

Over the past few years, I have used LectureScribe for a variety of purposes: sending multimedia notes to students and colleagues in response to questions over email, posting supplemental material in my courses, making research notes for myself to view in the future, and finally in the development of a multimedia textbook where difficult material is explained using short animated mini-lectures.

The Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) Conference 2008 will have a workshop on building video tutorials that includes LectureScribe tips for Tablet PC users.

Conference Dates: June 15, 2008 - June 19, 2008
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Conference website: http://www.ascue.org/ 
Presenter: Steve Anderson, U. South Carolina - Sumter
Workshop Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

PCs entering the classroom so that each child can potentially have all day access to curriculum and content is a phenomenal shift in schools. PCs like the Intel Classmate with appropriate software have been making in-roads at this 1:1 computing effort. The second generation is now out and Classmate 2.0 is making press review rounds. Are you finding these reviews helpful? What additional types of information do you need?

Darren Waters of BBC posted his first impressions recently:

It's a cut-price, cut-down laptop that runs XP moderately well, and connects to the net without a hitch. In fact, it accomplishes most tasks thrown at it without a hitch and its underpowered processor only really struggles when it is attempting to multi-task.

Purdue University is hosting this year's Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education (WIPTE). Submissions for papers, videos and posters are now being accepted.

Conference Dates: October 15 - 16, 2008
Conference Schedule future location

Here are some of the details for the Call for Papers:

 

Submissions Due: June 16, 2008.

Objectives: A wide variety of disciplines are embracing Tablet PC's and similar pen-based devices as tools for the radical enhancement of teaching and learning. Deployments of Tablet PCs have spanned the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels and have dealt with an amazingly diverse range of subject areas including nursing, veterinary science, geology, ethno-musicology, anthropology, landscape architecture, writing, mathematics, computer science, Japanese language, physics, engineering, art, economics, as well as others. Despite the diversity of content areas, many deployments have been similar in terms of the passion they have generated among students and teachers. The Third Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education (WIPTE) is intended to leverage this shared passion and to identify best practices in the educational use of pen-based computing so that all educators may benefit from this next generation of technology.

As Microsoft's Chairman, Bill Gates paints a vision of technology today and how those advancements can improve tomorrow and is a trusted advisor on how we can achieve these goals.

This week Bill Gates testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology on the celebration of the 50th of the Committee. He answered questions ranging from the knowledge gap with students, fundamental problems with teacher professional development, the next big thing in technology, to inspiring kids to learn. Gates' message is consistent with prior speeches, but reviewing is worthwhile. "It starts with education," he stated.

Also this week, Bill Gates addressed the Northern Virginia Technology Council (March 13, 2008). In this he gave more specific examples about technology available to students today, including the WW Telescope project from MSR and Tablet PCs.

So if you put it on your computer and say hey, I’d like to see that for myself – you just connect up your telescope and boom, there you are. You can acquire information, add that to your database. So software touching all the sciences in a pretty deep way. So with these platforms there will be a huge variation in how creative governments are in applying software to their task, how creative businesses are to apply it to their task, how schools can take this and do new things.

The School District of Philadelphia broke ground on its "School of the Future" in 2004. Today, students attending use Tablet PCs for course material, notes, and assignments. Classroom equipment is state-of-the-art. There is no doubt that the Philly SOF has influenced school technology plans at a world wide level.

Franklin County Regional School District is a few hours to the west, outside of Pittsburgh, and they're exploring ways to bring advanced technology to their students and teachers. The state of Pennsylvania funded $423,000. What equipment have they selected? 60 interactive whiteboards, projectors and mobile PCs for the teachers, along with peripherals like printers, still cameras, webcams and video cameras. Students will have access to 270 mobile PCs that are distributed through the school on nine carts. Sounds like a great start to a one-to-many classroom.