
Who’s holding back the tablets for school and who has the power to push back?

Who’s holding back the tablets for school and who has the power to push back?
Tablet mania continues here at Tech Powered Math as LeapFrog releases their new LeapPad tablet.
With so many options to help learn math in a technology age, you may have overlooked using the Amazon Kindle for math. Opinions I’ve read have been mixed on using a Kindle for Math, but I think that’s easily explained.
I got a chance to check out TI-Navigator up close and personal over the weekend as part of the TI User group I’m a part of. Texas Instruments has put together an impressive product here, with far greater capabilities than I was expecting. Essentially, TI-Navigator gives a teacher the ability to connect their computer to an entire classroom of TI-84 plus or TI-Nspire calculators.
Here’s a gadget that we didn’t see coming: a calculator that doubles as a spy camera. If you’d like to keep tabs on anyone from your babysitter to your colleagues, this device delivers.
The gadget world was all a twitter over the weekend as Canon announced the creation of the X Mark I, a combination mouse-calculator-numeric keypad. Haven’t we been here before?