Not So Fast: Busting Some Popular Myths around Social-Emotional Learning
Several months ago—back when our pre-pandemic world was generally open for business—I delivered a presentation about social-emotional learning at a statewide conference during which I spoke about how Infobase’s products can be used to support SEL instruction in schools. As I often do, I wanted to open with an appropriate quote, so I found this […]
Why It Is Challenging to Teach News Literacy in Today’s World, and How to Do So Effectively Anyway
There are many “unprecedented” things about the world today, and teaching news literacy in our current information environment is certainly one of them. Never before have there been so many news and “news-like” sources from which to receive information. As a result, news consumers of all ages express frustration, confusion, and resignation over which ones […]
Trending Professional Development Topics in Our New Reality for Public Libraries
As we continue to grapple with the trials of social distancing and the realities of a COVID-19 world, many public library patrons (and librarians alike!) are taking this opportunity to better themselves, whether it’s through broadening their professional skill sets or researching how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, both physically and mentally. Infobase is offering […]
Thinking about Accessibility for Your Virtual Programs
Whether you are offering information literacy workshops virtually or hosting an online program featuring guest speakers during this time, it is important to think about accessibility needs. You may have users who prefer closed captioning of your virtual sessions. Recently the American Library Association’s Accessibility Assembly released two new important toolkits: Accessible Communication Styles Virtual […]
Summer Readings for 2020: Open Access Editions
Looking for a good book to read during the summer? Recently I came across some interesting new publications on social media channels. These recent open access publications may get you thinking of new practices, theories, and services to consider for your community. Marking Open and Affordable Courses: Best Practices and Case Studies edited by […]
Solution Showcase: Personalize Your Professional Learning
Personalized and in-depth professional learning opportunities foster effective teachers, engaged parents, and prepared students. Professional development has moved away from the sit-and-get learning style and pivoted towards interactive, outcome-based learning. Infobase provides districts the ability to take online instructional content to the next level. With our 100,000+ hours of professional learning content, Infobase provides a […]
Trending Professional Development Topics in Our New Reality
As schools closed in March and went remote, educators were tasked with adapting new teaching strategies and online management tools. As teachers and administrators across the country changed course, the heavy weight of doing your best to ensure students’ basic needs were met didn’t come without challenges. Ensuring students are fed, safe, secure, and engaged […]
Issues & Controversies: Featured Controversy—Police Brutality and Reform
Does Policing in the United States Need to Fundamentally Change? SUPPORTERS ARGUE Police officers regularly abuse, harass, and brutalize Americans, particularly black men, without repercussion. Demilitarization, body cameras, bias training, accountability for bad cops, and limits on when officers can use force are all necessary reforms. Governments should defund and downsize police departments and shift […]
Police Brutality and Reform: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies
Featured in Issues & Controversies: Police Brutality and Reform: Does Policing in the United States Need to Fundamentally Change? Does policing in the United States need to fundamentally change? Be sure to check out Issues & Controversies’ complete and unbiased coverage of this divisive issue. Here is a sample of the pro/con arguments on both […]
Social Media and Free Speech: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies
Featured in Issues & Controversies: Social Media and Free Speech: Should Social Media Companies Do More to Combat Disinformation and Extremism on Their Platforms? Should social media companies do more to combat disinformation and extremism on their platforms? Be sure to check out Issues & Controversies’ complete and unbiased coverage of this divisive issue. Here […]
Serving Veterans During the COVID-19 Crisis
It’s likely that your college or university is suddenly holding many classes online that were previously in person. The switch doesn’t affect all classes evenly—some classes were already online, for example, so the “new normal” won’t be as new for them. Just as not all classes are affected in the same way, not all students […]
Navigating Our New Normal…in a Not-So-Normal World (Tips for Teaching from Home with Kids)
You may have seen the recent social media post that encouraged parents to describe what their kids were doing but call them their coworkers. The responses were humorous—kids must not have gotten the memo on appropriate “workplace” behavior. In my case, my “coworker” is making it hard to type since he insists on sitting on […]
