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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Researchers Hope 'Smart Desks' Will Improve Classroom Interaction - David DeBolt, Chronicle of Higher Education
Move over, smart classrooms. Researchers at Durham University in England are working on your offspring — an interactive desk they hope will move education away from its “teacher-centric environment,” the university announced Wednesday. The new desk’s screen will function somewhat like a whiteboard: An instructor can assign small sections of the desk to different students, and he or she can then send a specific task to each piece of the screen. [ed note: seems a lot like web conferencing with breakout rooms -ray ]
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