Sat.Dec 17, 2016

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6 Important Tips to Smartly Use Google Scholars

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 17, 2016 Google Scholar is one of the top academic search engines out there. It provides research community with a host of useful features that facilitate their work and enhance their.read more.

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The 3 Hottest Posts Innovative Educators Are Reading

The Innovative Educator

If you haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator, don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! Taking the top spot for the first time is a post explaining how to Choose the Right #EdTech Resources. The post highlights a great tool from Common Sense Education and points to some other important resources that innovative educators use to choose what is best for teaching and learning.

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Google's Top 5 Books in 2016

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 17, 2016 In this week's Books for Teachers' series we are sharing with you the best 5 books in 2016 as selected by Google. All of these books belong to the realm of fiction. They are.read more.

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Has your child care center left children unattended?

The Hechinger Report

Nearly a year ago, the Department of Health began listing child care centers that had been cited for certain violations in a weekly “Public Health Report” email. The names of these centers, all of which were written up for breaking at least one of five rules, were displayed temporarily on the department’s website. The violations, which the Department of Health says on its website “may endanger children,” include “failure to maintain the minimum staff-to-child ratio, leaving children unattended,

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Next Generation Science Standards-Based Assessments Are Coming. How Should Teachers Prepare?

Edsurge

Assessments based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are coming to many states. To date, 18 states have adopted NGSS. Other states have or are adopting new science standards that are loosely based on or influenced by NGSS, and even those states who do not adopt the new standards may see their assessments shift to a more NGSS-like style.

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Mississippi to increase oversight of child care centers

The Hechinger Report

This is the 16th article in a series investigating the child care system in Mississippi. Mississippi plans to double the number of annual inspections of licensed child care centers, hire more officials to conduct inspections and ease the workload of current inspectors in an effort to improve the quality of care for the state’s youngest children. The Department of Health’s Division of Child Care Licensure has received an extra $1 million, a 50 percent increase in its budget, to enable licensing o

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