Universal Design for Learning- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Reducing Barriers to Learning with Universal Design for Learning - University of Nebraska–Lincoln November 13, 2024
- Why Accessibility Will Be the Next Big Demand From K-12 Districts - Education Week November 7, 2024
- Inclusive education: Get started by making small changes to your education practice | Teaching & Learning - UCL - University College London November 4, 2024
- Assistive Technology (AT): Many Possibilities to Consider - Good Morning Wilton November 3, 2024
- 10 Tips toward Accessibility - American Libraries November 1, 2024
- Annual seminar at Brindavan Education Trust on November 9 in Bengaluru - Deccan Herald November 1, 2024
- Dreamery Speaker Series: Sessions focus on inclusive learning and accessibility - Penn State University October 31, 2024
- Education and AI
- Wharton School Launches New Coursera Course On AI In Education - BusinessBecause November 22, 2024
- Universities Invest in High Performance Computing to Support AI Education - EdTech Magazine: Focus on K-12 November 21, 2024
- How do civil rights laws apply to AI in schools? - K-12 Dive November 21, 2024
- Artificial intelligence in UK financial services - 2024 - Bank of England November 21, 2024
- Artificial intelligence at Tulane will transform research, education - Tulane Hullabaloo November 21, 2024
- OpenAI launches free AI training course for teachers - Reuters November 20, 2024
- 24 Artificial Intelligence Applications in 2025 - Simplilearn November 20, 2024
- University Launches Master’s Degree for AI in Education - Education Week November 19, 2024
- Social Media Policy
- Rams vs Eagles: How to watch on TV, livestream, listen on radio, bet, follow on social media, and more - Turf Show Times November 23, 2024
- How to get started with Bluesky - OCRegister November 23, 2024
- Jason Kelce, Wife Announce New Addition To Family With Adorable Social Media Post - The Spun November 23, 2024
- Kyle Busch Shuts Down Unhappy Fan’s Social Media Rant Questioning His Integrity With 2-Word Response - EssentiallySports November 23, 2024
- ‘Slowly became sex thing’: First generation of girls to grow up on social media reveals its scarring effects - New York Post November 23, 2024
- Meta scrambles to respond to upstart social platform Bluesky’s surge - The Washington Post November 23, 2024
- How will Trump use social media in his second term? What we can expect in 2025. - USA TODAY November 23, 2024
- Latinos on Spanish-Language Social Media More Likely to Believe Political Misinformation, Study Finds - LatinTimes November 23, 2024
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - 'To honour and learn' from Indigenous communities: KPU launches archeological assessments of university land - Education News Canada November 21, 2024
- Kwantlen University student newspaper threatened with shutdown - MSN November 20, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 2024
- KPU graduate showcases collection at Vancouver Fashion Week - Richmond News November 17, 2024
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Researchers explore memory failure across the lifespan - Education News Canada November 13, 2024
- B.C. Election: What the results across Metro Vancouver tell us about the 2024 vote - Vancouver Sun October 21, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU community honoured with King Charles III Coronation Medal - Education News Canada October 17, 2024
- 'Security threat' near KPU's Langley campus - Langley Advance Times October 15, 2024
Author Archives: Robert Basil
“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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Christmas season comment
I will never get used to the term “anti-woke.”
Anniversary
This month we begin the eleventh year of No Contest Communications. Tierney set the tone and the theme with her inaugural posts. I especially like “On Being Forgiven.”
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Apropos The Georgia Straight
Dan Savage was not exaggerating the problems faced by alt-weeklies in recent years. From The Tyee last week: The crew at the Georgia Straight wrote until the bitter end, filing stories and chronicling Vancouver’s culture after the paycheques stopped flowing … Continue reading
Savage Love
The prose of Dan Savage is bold and crystal clear – and edifying to a profound degree. It always has been. I started reading his column in the San Francisco’s alt-weekly back in the early 90s and kept up that … Continue reading
If you hadn’t noticed …
Here we go again. — Liberals loathe the political Right’s hypocrisy and unfairness. Conservatives loathe the Left’s immorality and delicacy. The groups’ estimations of their own qualities, though, are less precise. The question of “hypocrisy” is particularly interesting. La Rochefoucauld … Continue reading
Looking for new colleagues
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a vibrant and splendid place to work. My own department – Applied Communications (in the Melville School of Business) – is looking for two new instructors. We’re a good crowd. Apply here.