An iPad on Legs: Is ActivTable the Next Interactive Whiteboard? The newest gadget is the latest in Promethean’s range of interactive classroom products—smart boards, classroom response systems that resemble game show buzzers, teacher dashboards—and is the first of the company’s products designed especially for small group learning. The table is about the size of a wide coffee table and comes up to the hips of the average adult. It’s a 46”, high-definition LCD touch-screen. The surface is covered in “gorilla glass” for durability. It can respond to touch from up to six kids at a time. Students stand around the table, using it for all sorts of activities, from sorting vocabulary words to working out math problems to basically anything you can think of that can also be done with paper and pencil. » via MindShift High-res

An iPad on Legs: Is ActivTable the Next Interactive Whiteboard?

The newest gadget is the latest in Promethean’s range of interactive classroom products—smart boards, classroom response systems that resemble game show buzzers, teacher dashboards—and is the first of the company’s products designed especially for small group learning.

The table is about the size of a wide coffee table and comes up to the hips of the average adult. It’s a 46”, high-definition LCD touch-screen. The surface is covered in “gorilla glass” for durability. It can respond to touch from up to six kids at a time. Students stand around the table, using it for all sorts of activities, from sorting vocabulary words to working out math problems to basically anything you can think of that can also be done with paper and pencil.

» via MindShift

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    I’m excited for this because I might be teaching with it one day. :3
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    Ted Talks showed this in 2007. Fun to see it’s now being used in the mainstream....
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  22. caterpillarcowboy said: Didn’t the Microsoft Surface come out years ago?
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    So. Very. Cool.
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