Universal Design for Learning- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- December 13, 2024 - www.alfred.edu December 13, 2024
- (PDF) Text-to-Speech Software and Reading Comprehension: The Impact for Students with Learning Disabilities - ResearchGate December 9, 2024
- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Multi-Tiered System of Supports - CA.gov November 13, 2024
- Why Accessibility Will Be the Next Big Demand From K-12 Districts - Education Week November 7, 2024
- Universal Design for Learning Showcase - Dal News November 7, 2024
- Education and AI
- This School Will Have Artificial Intelligence Teach Kids (With Some Human Help) - Education Week January 6, 2025
- International Day of Education 2025 global event in New York: Artificial intelligence and education: challenges and opportunities - UNESCO January 6, 2025
- The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act: Implications for Continuing Education in The Health Professions - Policy & Medicine January 6, 2025
- ‘AI Is A Tool, Not A Threat,’ Says Nazneen Rajani, Member Of The UN Advisory Council For Artificial - Free Press Journal January 6, 2025
- Ohio task force launches resources, recommendations for how to use AI in schools - The Cincinnati Enquirer January 5, 2025
- 8 AI and machine learning trends to watch in 2025 - TechTarget January 3, 2025
- AI Skills You Need For 2025 - IBM January 3, 2025
- AI In Malaysia’s Education – OpEd - Eurasia Review January 2, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Musicians face pressure to gain a big social media following - MSN January 8, 2025
- Social-media companies decide content moderation is trending down | Company Business News - Mint January 8, 2025
- Social media reacts after Georgia stuns No. 6 Kentucky - UGA Wire January 8, 2025
- Lu Han's social media accounts banned following bad behaviour online - Yahoo Lifestyle Singapore January 8, 2025
- After Yearlong Paid Leave For Social Media Post, DEI Official Slapped with Demotion - CT Examiner January 8, 2025
- TGL debut sparks social media reactions - Yahoo Eurosport UK January 8, 2025
- Kentucky basketball social media reaction to Georgia loss shows a sad fanbase - Wildcat Blue Nation January 8, 2025
- Golf fans loving Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TGL on social media - SB Nation January 8, 2025
- Kwantlen
- KDocsFF goes on hiatus after founder and festival director suffers hip fracture - Pancouver December 21, 2024
- Local business partnering with KPU to do several research projects in Cloverdale - Surrey Now Leader December 13, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Researchers focus on Surrey drug crisis with $339K award - Education News Canada December 11, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU alum's book on Taylor Swift's fashion becomes New York Times bestseller - Education News Canada December 3, 2024
- Artist Mayuresh Ambekar hopes his new mural will motivate students to explore their potential at Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Pancouver November 27, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 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
Author Archives: Robert Basil
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.
Job-seekers need their “weaker ties”
This is a really interesting study that fortifies an important intuition: A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date on the impact of digital job sites on the labor market … Continue reading
How to write a lede
From the Irish Times: Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to … Continue reading
Silly professor
It is puzzling, perhaps, when the paper of record publishes a piece arguing that it’s a waste of money and time providing and receiving education in schools.
Hootsuite blog
Hootsuite, Vancouver’s vaunted social media management company, has helpfully updated the design of its already excellent blog. There are fewer listicles and more how-to cheat sheets (a favourite genre of mine, as my students know). A couple of days ago … Continue reading
The scale of a work
Our friend Jonathan Mayhew, on finding the right size (for a book): I like saying that [my upcoming book on Lorca and music] is a medium sized book on a vast subject. So it is with scholarship. You are rarely … Continue reading
Talisman
The Paper Hound is “a new, used, and rare book store” on Pender Street in downtown Vancouver. “We don’t specialize in one particular kind of book, but we favour the classic, curious, odd, beautiful, visually arresting, scholarly, bizarre, and whimsical.” … Continue reading