Nova: Next Generation?Student Learning Appliance?

The Nova is a revolutionary, ultra low Total-Cost-of-Ownership (TCO) student learning appliance filling the gap between?laptop and handheld solutions.

Nova offers schools a price performing solution for their basic student computing needs, in the classroom, in the lab, at home and for outdoor activities by combining powerful computing performance with patent pending data logging functionality.

National Science Foundation research demonstrates that probeware functionality can substantially improve student achievement in mathematics and science. The Nova is the perfect device for 1:1 initiatives, science classrooms and general student computing.

Data loggers have evolved into low cost and innovative experimental tools and have been used in classrooms for over two decades across a wide range of subjects including Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental and Life Sciences. Collecting data into the classroom is nothing new, data's been collected for a long time with thermometers barometers and stopwatches. But today data loggers are highly versatile and mobile with built in memory chips, individual sensors and powerful software for data analysis.

How have data loggers revolutionized data logging in the classroom?

Students are now free from the time consuming task of manually logging and observing their experiment, and can focus on designing the layout and analyzing their findings. With data loggers students no longer need to simultaneously check readings, take notes, time experiments and plot graphs at the end. Instead students today focus on monitoring and reacting to their experiments. Such features allow versatility in experiments and allow teachers to take learning out of the classroom.

How do data loggers, sensors and software work together?

Sensors including dissolve oxygenate radiation, heart rate, electrical voltage, sound waves, light and distance can be connected to a data logging device. The device can be programmed to required parameters and values for data collection. More accurate readings than the old manual methods allowed can now be collected, as fast as microseconds or over long periods and in adverse conditions, such as under water. Data is collected via the sensors and then transmitted to a computer. The computer uses the software to collect, display and store data. Once collected the data can be displayed in different formats - graphs, meters, tables - and since the software displays the data very quickly students can compare several sets of results in succession. The results can be incorporated into a multimedia presentation combining audio and video and saved for future reference and for other students.

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