Educators within the Livescribe Community are continuously developing  new and creative ways to use the Pulse smartpen for teaching and student learning in their classrooms. Here’s just one example from Steve Silverman, a physics teacher at Chatham High School in New Jersey.

As a physics teacher, Mr. Silverman has his students do a lot of labs and solve thousands of problems. When he stands at a whiteboard, the kids tend to fall asleep. With the Pulse smartpen, he can write out the answers to problems when the kids aren’t around and post them on Livescribe Online. The school has a mobile computer cart that comes to Mr. Silverman’s room once a week so they can check answers at their own pace and listen to the explanations. This helps his students learn at their own pace and also allows them to have access to his explanations outside of the classroom.

Physics teacher Steve Silverman uses the Pulse smartpen to capture his problem-set explanations and later posts them online for his students to review and replay.

“As soon as I saw the Pulse smartpen, I knew it could really change the way I teach,” said Mr. Silverman. “The kids love it that they can check answers at their own place rather than listening to me talk away at the chalkboard all day.”