Tablet PC Education

Electronic skin (e-skin), reports Chuan Wang and team at UC Berkeley, presents a network of mechanically flexible sensors that can wrap around and conform to irregular surfaces and spatially map and quantify various stimuli. It spatially maps the applied pressure and gives an instantaneous visual response through a built-in active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display with red, green and blue pixels. In this system, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are turned...

Here's a video of a woman moving a robotic arm by thinking about doing it. Fantastic video lesson for a class in robotics, neuroscience, etc. Just think! How will educators use this revelation in classrooms?

Bridget McCrea asks, The technology promises to save time and tedium, but can English papers truly be assessed without the human touch of a teacher? "In most cases there's a closer correlation between the human and computer scores than there is between two human scores," says Sandy Foster, lead coordinator in the West Virginia Department of Education's Office of Assessment and  Accountability. Janet Benincosa offers a page of videos,...