Articles Tagged With: iPad App
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PowerTeacher Provides Intuitive Environment for Monitoring Student Progress, Including Mobile App for Anytime, Anywhere Access
Rancho Cordova, CA, February 23, 2011 — As our nation’s education system increases its focus on standards-based education and student achievement, it has become more important than ever before that teachers are able to track student progress on a weekly, daily and, often, hourly basis. Millions of teachers around the country have the tool for easily and accurately monitoring student progress at their fingertips with PowerTeacher, Pearson’s web-based gradebook. A new PowerTeacher video from Pearson shows the ways that this online gradebook is helping students, teachers and parents monitor progress …
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Apps, Software and Sites Every Teacher Should Know About (Part 1: Organization)
In recent years, computers, smartphones, iPods and iPads have become more prevalent in K12 classrooms. In 2009, “ninety-seven percent of teachers had one or more computers located in the classroom every day” (National Center for Education Statistics).
Due to the increase use of technology in the classroom, we thought it was appropriate for us to search the web for “Apps, Software, and Sites Every Teacher Should Know About”. Since there are thousands of great tools out there, we’ve had a hard time whittling all of this information down into one post. … -
PowerTeacher Mobile 1:1 Now Available!
We released a major update to our PowerTeacher Mobile iPad App this week. PowerTeacher Mobile 1.1 includes the most often requested enhancements and is designed to make grading on the go easier than ever before.
Over 40 new features and enhancements
Almost two times faster than version 1.0
Plus numerous fixes and user interface changesFind out more at our iTunes App Store.
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Technology in the Classroom
Technology influences education on a daily basis. Don’t believe me? Let’s go over some research that was conducted in 2009 by the National Center for Education Statistics. Today, over 54% of Elementary and Secondary teachers may arrange to have computers brought into their classroom. Amazingly, internet access is available for 96% of the computers that are brought into these classrooms.
