wolframalpha.com ... "the end of human thought" .. I like it.

wolframalpha.com

On twit this week they tagged it as the end of human thought, but they were just being cheeky.

What do math, chemistry, and physics teachers think of wolfram alpha?

I think it is awesome. There will be some students who employ this tool inappropriately and "cheat", but the interested students will use this to extend what they learn, and achieve new levels of learning.

What do you guys think?

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Permalink Reply by Ian Carmichael on May 30, 2009 at 9:17pm

Thanks Ian,
Great application. I tried the same with malaria - not quite as neat, but still interesting.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Grove-Stephensen on May 31, 2009 at 4:56am

In that case I have a favor to ask. Because it is linked to Chalkface ( a Web 0.0 book publisher), my blog gets read by a lot of teachers who are still at the discovery phase with the Web. If you have a specific teaching idea with W|A you could really help inspire them by adding it to the blog comments.