Universal Design for Learning
- Designed in Michigan: Reawaken creativity at the Franciscan Life Processing Center - Rapid Growth February 27, 2025
- Universal design seeks to eliminate hurdles for all learners - Norfolk Daily News February 14, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Across Cultures: The Application of UDL in Kuwaiti Inclusive Classrooms - ResearchGate January 30, 2025
- SDCOE to Host Universal Design for Learning Design Jam to Make Learning Accessible for All - San Diego County Office of Education January 30, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning March Workshops - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning and Active Blended Learning: A Phenomenological Exploration of Their Overlap in a Master's Program of Educational Leadership - ResearchGate December 9, 2024
Education and AI
- Beijing introduces mandatory artificial intelligence courses for schoolchildren - Українські Національні Новини March 9, 2025
- Parents balance benefits and risks of artificial intelligence in early childhood learning - Baltimore Sun March 7, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Education Market Growing at 43.3% CAGR Reach USD $88.2 Billion by 2032 Globally - EIN News March 7, 2025
- Is Artificial Intelligence affecting critical thinking skills? - The Hindu March 6, 2025
- The English schools looking to dispel ‘doom and gloom’ around AI - The Guardian March 6, 2025
- 10 things AI still struggles with in education--and beyond - eSchool News March 6, 2025
- Martin Cothran: The rise of AE – ‘artificial education’ - 1819 News March 5, 2025
- AI in education: not a threat, but a change agent - The Hindu March 4, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Social media post claims 125-300mg of magnesium per meal can ‘reverse’ depression in just seven days; we ask experts if it is true - The Indian Express March 10, 2025
- Is social media a viable distribution channel in hospitality? - Hospitality Net March 10, 2025
- Digital, social media accounts accessed only in search, survey ops; not against common taxpayer: I-T sources - Hindustan Times March 10, 2025
- Nebraska basketball fans vent on social media after missing Big Ten Tournament - Yahoo Sports March 10, 2025
- Elections and Technology Reader: What happens when social media platforms step back on fostering a healthy information environment? - Asian Network for Free Elections March 10, 2025
- Social Media And A Site-Less Model Led This Trial To Pandemic-Era Success - Clinical Leader March 10, 2025
- Promising Social Media Stocks To Follow Today – March 8th - Defense World March 10, 2025
- China dad who creates robot toys for son praised by mainland diplomat Mao Ning - South China Morning Post March 10, 2025
Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU Brewing releases new Pink Boots collaboration beer celebrating International Women's Day - Education News Canada March 6, 2025
- The Wake Up Social Justice Music Festival at Kwantlen Polytechnic University - City of Surrey March 5, 2025
- With Wake Up!, KPU Surrey students learn how to run a music festival - Surrey Now Leader February 26, 2025
- Ndidi Cascade headlines free Wake Up! Social Justice Music Festival at KPU - Pancouver February 26, 2025
- KPU honours five Surrey 'community champions' - Peace Arch News February 24, 2025
- Kwantlen students deliver the numbers - Langley Advance Times February 19, 2025
- Squamish Nation trade students craft presentation boxes for Invictus Games medals - pentictonherald.ca February 18, 2025
- New KPU Richmond courses for older adults focus on women in science, AI, health - Richmond News February 14, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Be fair and be good to the artists
Artist and writer Molly Crabapple, whose work I have long admired, has written an open letter “imploring publishers to restrict their use of A.I.-generated illustrations.” I signed. Since the earliest days of print journalism, illustration has been used to elucidate … Continue reading
Everything will be suspicious
Longtime NoContest.ca friend Chet Wisniewski has “Three Cybercrime Predictions in the Age of ChatGPT.” I don’t know anyone who writes more clearly and helpfully on these things. Organizations (like my own) have trained their employees to recognize phishing and other … Continue reading
Best answer yet to that question
By rocker Susanna Hoffs: It’s worth it for me to remember that, because I am a bit of a snob formalist when it comes to evaluating published writing (prose or verse). The NYTimes “By the Book” series is always fun, … Continue reading
New at No Contest
We have added two news-feeds, for Artificial Intelligence and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), to go with our feeds on Social Media Policy and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and we’ve significantly expanded our resources list at the top of the page. … Continue reading
Phonics and the State of the Union
Our friend Jonathan Mayhew has been wondering whether the “balanced literacy” approach to teaching reading has neglected fundamental ways the brain apprehends and organizes sound itself, to the detriment of a generation or more of young would-be readers. Professors of … Continue reading
“Pre-Planned Feelings”
We have discussed our friend Clarissa‘s opinions on American academia and other topics in the past. She is an Hispanic Studies professor at a midwestern public university whose blog is always vividly written (and is contentious by design, I would … Continue reading
“Overlords at the Easel”
The brilliant, prolific, and combative political cartoonist Ted Rall has been spreading warnings about the ways AI can and will rob artists of rights to – and earnings from – their work. This week: As a cartoonist of the early … Continue reading
Merry Xmas!
From the great Bryan Garner: You can buy the new, 5th edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage here.
This can go a long way
This semester I asked a student of mine who’s in my university’s HR program whether human resources professionals needed to actually like people. (I wish I remember why I asked!) She told me nobody had ever asked her that question … Continue reading
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I will never get used to the term “anti-woke.”