Write naturally, on any screen.

How do you teach?

Online

In person

Math, diagrams and handwriting are painful with a mouse, so students type around the problem instead of showing their thinking. Pen & Touch lets everyone write with a finger, stylus or Wacom pen, like pen on paper.

Watching a student wrestle a mouse to write a fraction wastes the lesson. They write with a finger or stylus, you write with a Wacom pen, and the board feels like paper.

In an online class, you can’t see how students reached an answer if they can only type it. With touch and stylus, they write their working on the board by hand.

Sketching a process with a mouse makes participants give up and just talk. With touch, stylus or a pen tablet, they draw diagrams and flows the way they would on a whiteboard.

Students on touchscreen Chromebooks and iPads shouldn’t be stuck typing math. They write with a finger or stylus, and you write on the board at the front with a pen, just like on paper.

In a workshop, people think with their hands. Participants sketch on tablets or touchscreens and you draw on the board at the front with a pen, so ideas get drawn, not described.

Kids think on paper, not with a mouse. Your child writes on a tablet with a finger or stylus, and the board feels like a notebook.

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What it solves

Every student on a different device
Hard to write math, code or text on screen

Helps you

Teach better

Part of

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The problem

Writing with a mouse slows thinking down

Equations, diagrams and handwriting are hard to produce with a mouse or keyboard. Students skip steps or type the final answer, and teachers lose sight of the thinking behind it.

The usual way

Teachers photograph paper and upload it, or students type math with awkward symbols. It’s slow, and the moment of working it out together is gone.

How Pencil Spaces solves it

Pencil Spaces takes pen and touch input from touchscreens, tablets with a stylus and Wacom pen tablets. Write, draw and annotate on the board the way you would on paper.

What changes

Handwriting that feels natural. Math, diagrams and notes flow as easily as they do on paper.

What it looks like

In practice

A student works through a long division problem on an iPad with a stylus while her teacher annotates the same board with a Wacom pen. Every step is in their own handwriting.

In a 1:1 lesson

Your student writes out a quadratic on her tablet with a stylus. You circle the sign error with your Wacom pen, and she fixes it in her own handwriting.

In a group class

You ask the class to sketch a plant cell. Students on tablets draw with styluses, others use a finger on touchscreens, and you can see every drawing.

In a virtual training

Participants sketch their team’s process on tablets during a lean training. You mark up each flow with a pen tablet, and the group sees the bottlenecks.

In your classroom

Students solve a geometry problem on touchscreen Chromebooks, writing with a finger. You pick one and annotate it with a stylus on the classroom display.

In the training room

Each table sketches a customer journey on a tablet. You put one on the screen at the front and add notes with a pen as the room talks it through.

At home

Your daughter practices her letters on the tablet with a stylus, tracing over your model. It feels like writing on paper.