http://www.scientific-computing.com/education Brought to you by Scientific Computing World Sun, 04 May 2008 07:34:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my enthusiasms about ICT in education is the potential of connected systems for building genuinely constructivist activities within which learners can invent their own ad hoc subcommunities in mutual support of organised work. Which sounds very fine and impressive, and is in many ways real, but sometimes runs ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/75 I have been using Psion and Palm pocket computers extensively for some years to place computer assistance in the hands of primary pupils “doing science” outside the classroom. Given a trial set of “Classmate” Asus EEE PC subnotebooks (or “netbooks”) for a month, my first concern was not their capability ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/73 Asus' EEE PC, though useful in many other areas (see more extensive review here), is a computer designed specifically for education. A wireless platform cheap enough, light enough, robust enough, small enough and powerful enough to be seriously proposed as a go anywhere, work anywhere, one per child point of ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/72 In November, we said that we were about to try a series of “Music and Maths” sessions aimed at 16-19 year old students, to culminate in a public performance. We were looking for a program which would "listen" to a note and report its frequency, and at ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/71 For a wide variety of reasons (most of them educational!), the education pages have been quiet over the past few months. Things are coming together again, however, and I hope that things will be busier  from April 21st (when most Spring breaks end) onward. http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/70 Having marked the physics assignments submitted during my mini experiment (see Testing equation editor responses), after some delay caused by the flu which is doing the rounds, I sat down to look at what they revealed. Questionnaires were given to the students after hand in, disguised ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/69 We are in the throes of initial planning for a series of "Music and Maths" sessions aimed at 16-19 year old students, to culminate in a public performance. Using a mix of computing technologies and Blue Peter style building from scratch, the idea is to start from ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/68 [Regarding the discussions of Lakshmi and Ross:] We do not have text alignment in Equations because when wanted to adhere to strict latex notation. Everything you do visually has a correspondence in the latex code and vice versa. But latex has several shortcomings regarding text editing, for ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/67 Following Lakshmi's post on use of three equation editors, and a conversation with AbsentCat about discussion with the author of Equations, I was curious about how differences in formatting assumptions are perceived by users. Equations implicitly assumes that the host application (word processor, web editor, ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/66 Part of my summer holiday was spent in trying to learn something about stuff outside the textbook areas of maths I've been looking at. They are fascinating, but because I'm still an arts and humanities girl at heart I needed something more romantic to lighten them up a bit. My history ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/63