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Fall In Love With Knoxville

February 13, 2010 from 11:30am to 3pm – Knoxville Center Mall

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School Matters in print!

The News Sentinel’s weekly print section discusses all things education — with your input. This week highlights a popular topic on School Matters, "Clarifying rules on school fees parents must pay." Also this week, "Classic games are powerful learning aids in the classroom." A plea to use technology for active learning, "Smart boards are meant for interaction." Pick up a copy of Tuesday's News Sentinel and join in the conversations here.

KNS is looking for community contributors to their print edition. Read more about this opportunity here. KNS is seeking Black History essays from sixth through twelfth grade writers. Read more about it here.

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Cathy McCaughan replied to Lola Alapo's discussion 'Alapo: Giving South Knox a voice'

Add to 7th District candidates: Charlotte Dorsey

10 hours ago

Cathy McCaughan replied to Lola Alapo's discussion 'Alapo: Giving South Knox a voice'

Add to 9th District candidates: J. Max Houser

12 hours ago

Amy Wright added a discussion

Teacher liaison on school board

So I've been thinking....a dangerous pastime, I know. How would you all feel about having a teacher liaison on our school board? As the teachers are technically employed by the system there would have to be some clause in the contract to keep that…

13 hours ago

Vic Spencer replied to Rebecca Williams's discussion 'What do you think of online textbooks?'

Preprogrammed Ipods with text books and other tools downloaded at the school into it and no general Internet access is a very good idea Lisa. Lowest in cost as well without Internet service for all students, and the iPod is already using the screen…

19 hours ago

Lisa Starbuck replied to Rebecca Williams's discussion 'What do you think of online textbooks?'

What I'd do is iPad-type devices to be used as dumb terminals, programmed remotely from the Knox County Schools server, with access based on login credentials so that each device has the appropriate tools and resources CUSTOMIZED FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL…

yesterday

Lisa Starbuck replied to Cathy McCaughan's discussion 'New Charter School Study'

Interesting discussion about the race to the top funds and how they are trying to impact different aspects of schooling with incentives!It seems to me that one reason why charter schools end up not as diverse is that the population of kids they are…

yesterday

Vic Spencer replied to Rebecca Williams's discussion 'What do you think of online textbooks?'

Todays Netbooks are about $300 that could do the job. Big enough and fast enough with plenty of storage. The schools could write it off or amortize it under up to 5 yrs. The cost of the Internet connections would be the big cost, but I believe it wo…

yesterday

Lisa Starbuck replied to Rebecca Williams's discussion 'What do you think of online textbooks?'

Wouldn't it be great if all of our children had computers with internet access both at school and at home? I really love the idea of using online resources for learning, especially if they are interactive and really take advantage of the medium. See…

yesterday