To track how well Johnny could read last week â?? and the week before that â?? Gina Tortorice can now drag her finger across the front of an iPod Touch and watch her studentâ??s progress. The first-grade teacher is one of 11 educators at the adjacent Black Hawk Middle and Gompers Elementary schools using KidGrid, an experimental iPod application designed by UW-Madison researchers to make documenting student progress frequent, instantaneous and high-tech. “This is a research project as much as it is a tool for teachers to use,” said Richard Halverson, associate director of the education research and development group for the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, who is developing KidGrid with Suzanne Rhodes, a UW-Madison graduate student in educational psychology.
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