On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > kcrisman wrote: >> The NSF has just put out a video series (five minutes each, maybe) on >> the state of math ed in the country. It's actually somewhat >> disappointingly vague in parts, but certainly has potential to get >> people talking. >> >> Relevance to Sage: >> http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/math/tech.jsp >> This subsegment talks a lot about things like interactive notebooks >> and textbooks, which is certainly related to a lot of the Sage/TeX/ >> pdf >> interactions that have been discussed. Some of you might find it >> interesting to see what the talking heads here have to say about all >> this. >> > > Thanks for posting this. These are very interesting short clips. > > > >> If Sage could easily be integrated with tablet technology, for >> instance (e.g. character recognition and then knowing how to >> translate >> that into Sage commands) that could be very interesting 10 years down >> the road, or whenever we all stop typing. If we do! > > I doubt we will stop typing in general for a very long time, if ever. > Nothing even comes close to the precision and speed that typing > usually > affords. That said, I was *really* impressed with a tablet PC running > Vista that I played with the other day. I was amazed at the > handwriting > recognition and one-note---things have certainly come a long way in > the > last few years. I didn't test its ability to recognize math, though.
I don't think typing will go away anytime soon either, but my first thought is that a tablet could be really good for imputing math formula, commutative diagrams, etc. TeX does a pretty good job of linearizing it, but even after one is fluent it's nowhere near as natural as chalk on a whiteboard or pen and paper. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
