What it is: Knowtes is a flashcard based learning community (still in beta) that allows kids to build flashcard decks and study online. When students add a card to a Knowtes deck, it becomes due at optimized interval. The Knowtes Adaptive Learning Engine adjusts how frequently cards should be studied based on how well students know them. They can even watch their cards move from short to long term memory as they study. Knowtes decks can be shared between teachers, students, etc. Each student gets their own study room where they can organize their decks and study their cards. The study rooms have great tips on studying and tutorials on using Knowtes. Cards can be made plain, rich, or with images right now but will have audio and video capabilities coming. This is such a cool idea! Studying has never been this much fun 🙂
How to integrate Knowtes into the classroom: Knowtes is a great tool to introduce your students to. Even if you don’t have time to use it on a regular basis in the classroom, spending some time teaching your students to use the program would be worth while. Students can create Knowtes flashcards to study any subject. For younger students, you can create decks for your students to study from. Students can also create decks to share with you or other classmates. If you have an interactive whiteboard (or even just a projector) students can study cards as a whole class. You could easily use Knowtes for a whole class study session/game. Be sure to let parents know about Knowtes too, many times studying is a struggle for families and this can make life easier for everyone.
Tips: Since Knowtes is still in its beta version, click on the signup button and send a request to be a beta tester. The Knowtes team is willing to take suggestions on improving Knowtes so you should send a suggestion for any feature you would like to see available. Happy studying!
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Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I am a very big fan of your site. I really like the knowtes and can definitely see myself using them in my classroom. I was wondering if you know how I can embed the flash cards into my blog? That would be very cool to do. I like being able to post everything to my blog so students can then just go to one site.
thank you so much
Hi Yelena,
Yes, you can embed flash cards into your blog. When you are in your Knowtes Deck Look at where the Title of the deck is (toward the top of the screen) you should see a small button that looks like this < > That is the embed button. Just click embed, the html code will pop up in a separate window, copy it and paste it into an html editor in your blog. That is it! Good luck!