SmartPens - State-Of-The-Art Technology

Pen and pencils are still used by students from K-12 to higher education.  Digital pens are another state-of-the-art technology available for students.  Now we have Digital Pens, there is this in particular called LiveScribe smartpen that captures not only what you write down, but also it records audio. There are several digital pens out there, but some of them require special paper or they are not very accurate. LiveScribe smart pens transfer all you write or draw to your computer and it allows you to create notebooks to organize your notes.

This technology can be used from K-12 to higher education.  Since this can be sued for both Educators and students, I have the flexibility to demonstrate its use for the students and for the teacher; first I will start of with the scenario to integrate college students. 

Subject: Writing

Learning objective: Students will be able to store their notes digitally in their computers and be able to access them anywhere any time.

Checkout the following video on how the smartpens are used in K-12 education.  This is an awesome technology that can tremendously help both students and teacher in Technology Education.  It’s a great learning tool. It can improve student learning offering a better understanding of what teachers are talking about. 

For educators using the same technology they can create what is called pencasts.  Which is a digital version of the class you are teaching capturing both notes and audio.  You can use the pencasts for any topic from math problems explanation where you can actually draw formulas and all the fancy symbols to chemistry classes where you can write chemistry equations.

This smartpen is like a computer in a pen, it can even translate.  Please checkout the following link where you can see all the different examples on how pencast is currently used.

http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/solutions/k12/pencast.html