From Slide Rules to Cyberspace

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An excerpt from Sooner Magazine, v18 i2 1998 {p18}

"Introducing the laptop into the classroom of today is akin to introducing the scientific calculator in the late 1960s," Fagan says. "Replacing the slide rule and log tables with this tool raised some controversy. Yet the HP-35 calculator enabled students to solve more difficult problems. Some instructors claimed that students could not understand the physics of the problem if they used the new mathematical tool. Changing to a laptop classroom today raises similar complaints, but soon the laptop will be as commonplace as the calculator."

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