http://www.scientific-computing.com/education Brought to you by Scientific Computing World Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:56:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Responsiveness in a software publisher or supplier is always welcome, and more common than is often realised, but I've just experienced a particularly impressive case.On Thursday, I downloaded a 30 day trial copy of FX Draw 3 - part of FX MathPack, a suite of mathematics resources for the secondary education market by ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/79 At Learning with 'e's, Steve Wheeler muses that it is: "...interesting after all these years that people still want to come together face to face to do workshops, seminars, participate in lectures and demonstrations, and generally network in a co-present manner. This despite all the issues of travel pollution, rising ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/78 My part of this “netbooks” trial involved much hair loss. Since the base for my work with disconnected teenagers is a cybercafé, there is no obvious rôle for a small, pocketable computer in the normal context of what I do. To make good use of the opportunity, I had to ... http://www.scientific-computing.com/education/archives/77 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