Breaking Convention – Success in School Doesn’t Have to be Expensive
It’s back to school time again and schools aren’t the only ones that feel the budget crunch plaguing this economy; parents have been forced to take a look at their expenditures for the up and coming months as well. In the past, parents would spend money freely for clothes and supplies to get their children adequately prepared before school started. Once the tests, quizzes, projects are completed and grades released, parents would spend anywhere from $500 to $10,000 a year on extra help for their kids (Tutors, After-School Learning Centers etc.).
Luckily, Academic Fitness is a great way for parents to be able to help their children and provide them with great quality educational software at a $39.99 price point. This means that the kids don’t have to miss out on opportunities to improve their achievement in school.
Academic Fitness addresses the key issues associated with scholastic struggle:
Reading. If your child is struggling with reading or reading comprehension, the software ensures success by reading aloud as well as having the text show up on the screen. A graphic or video is also displayed for additional reinforcement.
Math. The software contains a very extensive math selection that teaches both simple and complex concepts effectively. Parents are then are able to work with their children to solidify understanding. Academic Fitness covers everything from basic addition and subtraction to Trigonometry.
Additionally, Academic Fitness covers all core curriculum including Science, History, Literature and Geography. Academic Fitness is a great learning tool geared to help students move past the road blocks that are getting in the way of their education and onto success.
It is important to remember that even though our software will be a great help alone, with parental involvement, the student has all the tools they will need to be academically fit!
iPhones and iPod Touches get a much needed update – 3.0
Apple today, released version 3.0 of their iPhone and iPod touch Operating System. This highly anticipated release includes many updates and upgrades that make these devices even better.
The new features include:
- Cut, Copy and Paste
- Landscape View for Mail, Notes and Messages
- Landscape Keyboard for Mail, Notes, and Messages
- Support for Multimedia Messages (MMS) which will be available to ATT customers later this summer. The date is still TBD.
- Find My Phone feature which locates a missing or stolen iPhone. This feature is integrated in MobileMe.
- Remote Wipe is now an option in MobileMe to protect your data in case the phone winds up lost or stolen.
- Turn by Turn GPS-based directions
- A new Voice Memo app has been added
- Spotlight search for contacts, emails, and media content stored on the iPhone
What does this mean for education?
As we all have either seen or heard about, the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch are phenomenal devices to extend learning on-the-go. In this age of technology, we need to embrace and utilize the tools which make teaching engaging and effective. With the latest tools available to developers, applications that run on these devices do more and make more things possible than ever conceived before. Innovative Knowledge is hard at work developing and testing the next-generation of it’s mobile learning suite and should be on the App Store by the start of the new school year.
Academic Fitness Daily Trainer is an application, set to be released on the new iPhone/iPod Touch 3.0 platform, that will provide students with review questions that tests their knowledge and ensures they are ready for tests, quizzes, and overall school success. The material is presented in an interesting and engaging way and has pictures that accompany each question in order to assist students.
Here is a sneak peek of the application:
