The Know New Ideas Community

How do you know when the vision of personalized learning is advancing?  Well, believe it or not, recent news coverage in USA Today and eSchoolNews about Autism is one indication.  At this point, you might be saying, “Huh, not sure I follow you.”  It’s not that…

As a teacher, I was always concerned about time.  How much time do I have to cover a topic?  How much material can I cover in one quarter or one school year?  What if I run out of time to get it all done? 

What if TIME isn't the core issue?  What if the problem was HOW I was spending my time? …

Depth and rigor, text complexity, close reading and re-reading are all high priorities in the Common Core English Language Arts Standards.  How can we…

The Know New Ideas Community is proud to highlight new member Steven Pritchard, the Enrichment Teacher at South Buffalo Charter School in New York.  The work that Steven is doing with his enrichment classes is truly inspiring – taking a student centered, project-based approach to learning that develops his students so that they are ready to learn and lead in a 21^st century digital world.…

Enjoying the flowers from what you planted in the fall. 

Today is the first day of Spring. Thoughts of Spring are usually about renewal and starting fresh, but I also think of it as a…

In 2010, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference featured an unorthodox keynote selection. The closing keynote presenter was selected by casting a ballet via web. The most popular nominee would provide the closing keynote of one of the largest educational computing conferences in the world.

On July 1, Hawaii's Jeff Piontek won that distinct honor and declared: "It's no longer STEM. It's STEAM." His opening slide displayed white letters for the words…

Imagine you are waiting on your first shipment of brand new microcomputers! The year is 1983 and yes, those microcomputers are Bell and Howell Apple II’s with marvelous green monochrome monitors, or was it gold? I carefully unpack and set up our first Title I funded computer lab and unwrap our 5¼” floppy disks from MECC. With no NCLB requirements nipping at our heels, we step boldly into the future with our students… confident that we are preparing them for the world they will…

     Our K12 education system is shifting from over-dependence on infrequent, high-stakes assessments toward frequent, lower-stakes assessments.  This is a great trend.  In fact, Knovation and our solutions have integrated with several formative assessment applications to support the “what’s next?” When teachers review item analysis reports from tests and quizzes in these assessment applications they can connect directly to learning resources aligned to the same academic standard.  This is a…