Mike Palmquist's Blog – August 2009 Archive (2)

Last week, on Friday August 21, we submitted the updated version of GradePad. This is a very exciting update for us in that it allows users of GradePad on an iPhone or iPod touch to use a GradePad.com account to import and export data.



GradePad 1.2, an iPhone app for teachers, will make it easier for teachers to import class lists, create GradePads, share GradePads with others, and export your assessment data to… Continue

Swedish elementary school begins when kids are 7 years old and there's no real formal structure to preschool except "socialization". What do they teach in preschool? Not ABC's, Counting, and Colors...How "To be a good friend and to believe in their own abilities." But that structure offers individual learning plans for each student and lots of linguistic immersion: always talking. The best predictor of human capacity, according to University of Chicago Economist, James Heckman, is linguistic… Continue