EdTech @ ADW

I posted this video in a previous post but never commented on it, so I thought I’d do that now.

The video shows Microsoft’s new Surface concept, basically a large flat surface which acts as a computer monitor and you touch it with your hands to interact with it.

The question is, could this have some applications for our teaching? This is a great way of interacting with a computer for some things. It’s not good for writing a report, but it may be good for certain simulations or group activities. But it’s limited to a small group, perhaps no more than 4-5 people. But with the proper applications to support this I could see this as a great tool in business when organizational behavior or management is discussed, in health science when teaching students anatomy, in IT when teaching students network topologies and configurations, etc.

What are your thoughts on this technology?