Back when I went to school there was no choice for how to learn. It was a text book, a pencil, and the Oregon Trail. Now, with today’s advanced technology, we have zipped from typewriters to keyboards, to smart phones, and now the ever prevalent tablets and apps. Now as a mom, I find that it is my responsibility to share great products with other moms that can help make their lives easier. It is with that thought that I wanted to introduce you to one of the companies on the forefront of today’s technology and a great way to help your kids learn in this modern era.
Get to know KNO!
Kno, which has been featured on Mashable, Business Week, and Wallstreet Journal, allows your kids to bring their textbooks alive.
Kno is a killer education software company on a mission to shake up higher education by making learning engaging, efficient, and social for students.
Founded by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of Chegg, and Dr. Habib in May 2009, the company has built an impressive set of learning products supported across multiple devices and platforms.
The company has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, Advanced Publications, FLOODGATE, First Round Capital, Ron Conway, Silicon Valley Bank, SV Angels, GSV Capital and TriplePoint Capital and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Transform your tablet into a learning tool for your kids and increase their engagement with interactive eTextbooks or sign online and engage directly at Kno!
The Kno digital textbook app is available for the iPad and Web and will be available for Android tablets and Windows 7 in time for back to school.
Unlike normal textbooks, Kno has cool interactive features for your kids like:
- A digital Journal that automatically saves a student’s notes and highlights them in a study notebook
- Automatic Flash Cards of key terms in a book to help students study more efficiently and better retain information
- 3D models that bring difficult chemistry concepts to life to make them easier to understand
- Quiz Me feature, which automatically turns any diagram in a book into a multiple choice quiz for easy self-quizzing before tests
- SmartLinks that deliver instructional videos, images, and photos to formulas and concepts in a textbook in real-time for easy reference
- Coming soon, an analytics feature that will enable active engagement between parents and students to better measure reading progress.
Check out this short video to see some of the action that downloading the app can do:
With textbooks from K-12, you have a more affordable and interactive way to encourage your child’s growth and watch them be EXCITED about learning!
Kno Discount Code
Head over to Kno and check it out (or download the app) and receive a $5 credit to get you started by using the code:
KNO4MOMS
Good from now till October 1, 2012
Win An Ipad Here!
To help get your child’s school year started off right with Kno, we have partnered with them to offer a giveaway of an iPad that will help you download this app and keep the learning going in your house. To enter, just use the Rafflecopter form below and one lucky winner will win an iPad from momdot! (please wait a moment for it to load)
Thanks for the giveaway… 5th & 7Th grade.
All my kids are out of school but one is a high school teacher so she goes back to school every year; and one is studying for her masters degree in Library Science.
My son is in 6th grade.
not in school ty.
My children are in 8th, 4th, and 3rd
my kids are in pre-K
My children are all Post Grads
I have 2 second graders!
1st Grade.
My children are in grades 6th,5th,3rd,2nd grades and kindergarten
tanyajoshanti81@gmail.com
I have a 15 year old in 10th grade and a preschooler at home.
1st grade and 4 year old preschool
Pre-k (:
My daughter is in pre-school and my son is going into 1st grade.
My little guy is 13 months so no school yet
twin 4th graders
I can’t believe it but, we have a 7th, 5th and a kindergartener!
My kids are in 2nd grade, kindergarten and homeschooled preschool.
5th and first
7 and 9th
brich22 at earthlink dot net
1st Grade
My oldest is in PreK
I have one in Graduate school and nieces and nephews from kindergarten to 8th grade.
I don’t have children myself; my nephew is 22 though.
My daughter is in 8th grade this year.
12th
She is in 4th
11th
My Grandson just starte1st grade
My twins are in pre-school. The Kno is just what we need
I have an 8th grader.
no kids
My twins are in kindergarten!
preschool
My kiddos are going into PreK, K, and 2nd Grade! Gonna be a busy year!
2nd and 5th
I don’t have kids. Just niece in 9th & 5th grade
1st, 4th, 7th and 11th
Preschool!
Kindergarden and 2nd Grade.
Second and fourth grades.
My son is in Pre-K and my daughter is in 2nd
I don’t have any children yet.
kindergarten
Sophomore in high school
I have children in 4th, 7th, and 10th.
my son is going in the 10th grade
5th grade
My son is starting preschool this year!
Junior in High School
What grade are your children in?
no children
i have one going into the 6th grade, the other is a junior in college
They are in preschool
12TH GR and college FR and I’m going back for grad work
kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 5th grade…..
1st and 5th
I have a son in 10th, 12th, one in college and a grandson in kindergarten so I am all over the place
2nd grade! Thanks!
3 months pregnant with my first!
10th
mine is in the 5th grade, his laptop is old and slow he really could use the ipad esp since the teacher makes them do homework on a website
mine is in the 5th grade
Thank you for this giveaway!, I am cyber schooled going into 12th!
My daughter is doing 7th & 8th grade work this year.
lisando at hotmail.com
Mine are older but I have 11 grandchildren.
In 6th grade. Time flies!
I don’t have any kids in grade school yet!
2nd and 5th grades
Kindergarten and first grade
eaglesforjack@gmail.com
my son is in 2nd grade
My oldest will be starting kindergarten next year. The school only takes 8-10 new kids each year, so he will be tested. We are going to spend the next year getting him ready and this would really help
thank you
first, second, seventh, and eleventh grades
1st, 4th and 8th
1st, 4th and 8th
I don’t have children
9th grade
my son’s entering his first year of high school
3rd
Kindegarden
my kids are in 7th and kindergarten
pre k through high school
Hi there momdot!!! I have a 4 year-old that just started pre-k and he LOVES it!! I also have a 3 year-old ASD little guy that is about to start an ESE class… hope he likes school as much as his big bro! Thanks so much for the chance to win an iPad to sketch for my Digital Art biz on & for my little guys to play Angry Birds & use Proloquo2go!!! Happy weekend to you!
kindergarten. and 2 young ones
Pre-K, 5th and Freshman in HS
trisha71478 at gmail dot com
My daughter is in 5th.
No kids but 2 little cousins in 4th and 5th grade
My son is in 3rd grade
Our two remaining daughters at home are in 6th and 11th grade
I have a 2nd grader!!
My kids are in the 1st and 3rd grades
I have three daughters in grades 1,5, and 7. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I have a college student and a junior in high school
No children yet, but we’re trying!
My daughter is in kindergarten.
I have 6 children and my last 2 left at home are starting high school this year (9th grade)
Pre-K and 3rd…so far.
My kids are in 5th, 6th, and one stays at home with me(almost 2)
I have a 2nd and 4th grader!
3rd
5th and 11th
10th and 12th grade
No kids at this point in time.
I have grandchildren from 3rd grade to 9th grade
no kids yet
My boys are in 2nd grade and pre-k.
My boys are no longer in school. This mom would love to win an ipad for myself!
8th grade
My kids are going into 2nd and 4th grades.
my nephew is going into 3rd grade.
My daughter is not in school for another 3 years.
My little guy is preschool!
elizabethglassturner (at) gmail (dot) com
College sophomore
I don’t have children.
My son is in Preschool
Preschool and the other one is 3 months old so nothing yet
pre-k
Two are in high school and the other two are in college.
Kindergarten =)
still daycare
My son is in preschool!
9th and 5th grades
I don’t have children, just neices and nephews in junior high.
Mine is starting pre school.
first and third
My daughter is in HS and my son in middle school they would love to have one
I have a freshman in hs, a freshman in college, a sophomore in college and a junior in college.
preschool!
Pre-K…but they can read
My son is a junior in college
My son is entering 2nd grade this year.
Not in school yet. Thanks for chance to win iPad.
My children are in 4th, 9th, and 11th.
What a great idea! Just spent a bundle on my daughter’s textbooks. Of course we don’t have an iPad…
Preschool & K – we start homeschooling on Monday! I would love to have an ipad so that we could take advantage of all the educational apps that are out there!
third grade and sixth grade.
grade 0 not in school yet
Youngest is junior in college, Of grandchildren oldest is 7th grade and youngest is 1st grade
My daughter is starting the 5th grade this year!
My grandchildren are in 1st, 3rd, and 7th grade.
1st grade
6th grade this year!
2nd grade!
2nd
third grade
My son is in his second year of preschool.
I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader.
My daughter is going into 4th grade!
6th grade and 9th grade
kindergarten
nannypanpan@gmail.com
11th grade, 5th grade and kindergarten in our house!
3rd grade and 2nd grader.
The two still at home are a junior and senior in HS this year.
Going into Kinder
My son will be in 8th grade and my daughter will be in Kindergarten.
preschool and kindergarten
My girls are 9 months, and 2 1/2- but it’s never too early for learning!
My daughter is entering Pre-K.
I have a 3 and a 1 year old, no school here yet but my 3 year old will be starting preschool soon!
College!
jofo120 at yahoo dot com
1st, Kindergarten and Prek3
1st
Kindergarten
Second grade.
College student
1st, 5th, college Freshman
5th grade!
My son is about to start pre-K
1st and 3rd
My little girl is only 3, so she won’t be going to school this year.
2nd grade
oldest in 2nd grade, twins are in kindergarten and youngest will start preschool in December.
8th Grade
My children are in 6th and 9th grade.
My daughter is starting pre-kindergarten this year.
My kids are going into fourth and sixth grade!
My daughters going into 4th grade
kindergarten this year
3rd and 7th grade!
I have a grandson in the 8th grade, a granddaughter in college, GOD BLESS AND KEEP YA’LL SAFE IN HIS LOVING ARMS.
Seventh and Eleventh
Ugh, so OLD 
My daughter is almost 3yrs old
jmatek AT wi DOT rr DOT com
My wife and I have three grandkids that attend school. They are in first, second, and fourth grade.
Second Grade
K and PreK
My nephew is in 11th and niece in 5th grade.
kindergaten
in utero! but i’m sharing this with my nieces who are going into 1st.
My son is a senior in college but my nieces are in grades 2 and 6. Thanks for a great giveaway!
preschool and 6th grade
My girls are in pre-k, 6th grade and the oldest two are freshmen in college
My grandson is in 2nd grade.
my kids are in 1st and 3rd grade
my grandkids are in 2 and 4th grades
My son is starting Kindergarten!
i have a kindergartner!
5th grade
My oldest daughter is out of school and my youngest daughter is entering college this fall.
preschool
Not in school yet
not in school
My children are in preschool.
PK-3, still will download the app, I did the same with one for a USA map game and he know every state name looking at the shapes.
Thanks
My son graduated from college and my grandson is not in school yet, got a couple of years to go. Thank you!
college freshman!
They are not in school yet.
10th grade
I don’t have children.
My kids are in 2nd and 4th grade.
My daughter is in 4th grade.
They have graduated high school.
I dont have kids of my own!
Haley is in 1st grade and Amberly is in Kindergarten!
My twins are in preschool.
my kids are in 2nd and 5th
My kids are out of school and grown.
My kids are out of school and grown.
preschool
4th Grade
My son will be starting pre-pre school this fall.
Highschoolers 12, 9
My little guy is starting Kindergarten
3rd, 7th and 10th.
Thanks so much.
My children are in high school.
My daughter is going into 5th grade
Pre-K, 3rd, and 11th
My oldest boy is going to 7th grade, my next boy is going into 6th, and my twin girls are going into 3rd.
My kids are in – K, 3rd, 5th and 6th. Thanks for the chance
oldest is 21
youngest is 10
grandbaby is 3.8 yrs
2nd and 4th
11th and 12th
My child is almost 18 months, but I know even at his age he can learn with this!
I have a 6th grader and a 3rd grader this year!!
This actually looks really cool! Not that I would let my 3rd and 1st graders actually use my iPad when I win. lol
One in 10th grade and one who isn’t even in preschool yet.
1st grade and VPK!
Fifth grade
I have just one in school. 6th grade!!! Great giveaway! Thanks
I have a 10th grade student, a 7th grade student and a 6th grade student.
I have 2 school age kids (and 2 at home) … they are going into 3rd and 4th
My daughter starts kindergarten in a few weeks.
3rd and not yet in school
My son is starting 10th grade.
My daughter starts Kindergarten next week!
I have 5.5 year old twins (boy/girl) and an 8.5 year old boy. Kindergarten and 3rd grade.
My children will be in 4th, 2nd, 1st and pre-school
My children are going into 10th, 7th, and 1st
We do early childhood with all my little ones and preschool for my 4 year old!
My children will be entering kindergarten, kindergarten, and 3rd grade this fall.
My son is in Pre-K!
I have a pre-k and a 3rd grader! This is a fabulous app!
Preschool and Second Grade
My boys are in second and fifth grades this fall.
pre-k and 6th
My daughter is starting preschool this year!
I have 8th and 11th grade this year.
My son is in first grade now. He loves computers. This would be amazing!
2nd at 4th grade
2nd at 4th
My oldest is starting 1st grade and then I have a toddler at home and I’m due with our 3rd in October.
I have three school age kids – 10th grade, 6th grade and Kindergarten.
only one in school is in 1st grade!
I have a Preschooler! his is so great, I love technology
I have a Kindergartener and Pre-K!
My son is going to be in preschool
My daughter is in grade 6! we are both learning how to use the ipad together!
My son is starting Kindergarten this year.
bekki1820cb at gmail dot com
My oldest is starting school this year, so excited but also so nervous.
1st, 6th, 9th
My oldest will be starting K this year. But my husband is a 9th grade Science Teacher!
My son will start preschool this fall
1st grade here!
My kids are in preschool and 2nd grade.
My son just started pre-k.
My tween is going into 4th grade, my teen is going into 9th grade, and I am going into my senior year of college
My son will be starting 4th grade. Would love an iPad!
Pre-K
We’ve got one in pre-school, one in Kindergarten and one in 6th grade.
My kids are in 11th, 9th, 3rd, and 1st.
Preschool.
10th, 8th, 6th, 4th, 2nd, K and preschool/toddler.
Two children; youngest going into 1st grade and the oldest going into the 8th grade
My son started kindergarten TODAY! *waaahhh*
Stepdaughter’s going to be going back to school (college) and grandaughter is going into 1st grade
My daughter is still a baby (18 months).
I have 3 kids and they are going into 2nd, 3rd and 6th grades. We don’t have an iPad so this would be so helpful and the Kno app looks so neat!
My kids are in 2nd grade, kindergarten and preschool
I have two in school. My daughter is going to 4th and my son is going in 1st. My how time flies.
2nd and Kindergarten
My daughter is starting 6th grade! Oh my, how time flies!
My oldest starts Kindergarten soon!
Great giveaway! My son is in 10th grade this year and I can hardly believe it!!
Children are going into 3rd and 7th!
My son just started 1st grade and he would LOVE this! hes so “tech-y” and thats one of the best ways i have found for him to learn. this would definitely be a blessing!
Mine are going into Kindergarten and 6th grade but it sounds like this would REALLY help my 6th grader who has high functioning Autism.
I have an 8th grade and an 11th grade student, but I’m also entering the classroom and have 60 students this year, woohoo! Thanks so much for sharing this info about Kno, because I can definitely use this with them.
I have a child going into 1st grade and 11th grade
I’ve got 7 children, 1 in college and the others are in 12th, 8th, 5th, 1st, Kindergarten and Pre-K/Kindergarten. The youngest 5 are homeschooled and this looks like a killer option. I’m assuming they will be adding more as the options for most are slim. 6th grade looks great though!
I have a 6th grader and a 12th grader! It is amazing how technology changes our children’s education!
Oh pretty neat! My kids are 5th and kindergarten!
That looks like great software. I’ll have to see what books my girls schools use to see if they are on the list. What a great concept.
whoops and I have an 8th grader and 1st grader
I have a child going into pre-k, 1st grade and 2nd grade
this will come in handy!!
kindergarten