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
- One Small Cut for ED, One Giant Leap for DOGE-Kind - American Enterprise Institute December 30, 2024
- Education and AI
- Beijing introduces mandatory artificial intelligence courses for schoolchildren - Українські Національні Новини March 9, 2025
- Moderating approaches to artificial intelligence in education - New University March 8, 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
- Martin Cothran: The rise of AE – ‘artificial education’ - 1819 News March 5, 2025
- AI in medical education: 5 ways schools are employing new tools - AAMC February 27, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Cargo vessel that collided with US-military chartered tanker was carrying sodium cyanide - CNN March 10, 2025
- From Twitter to Bluesky: CEO Jay Graber talks about future of social media at SXSW 2025 - Austin American-Statesman March 10, 2025
- Social Media Is Full Of People Testing Out "Airport Theory" - Yahoo Lifestyle UK March 10, 2025
- Social Media Is Divided Over "Airport Theory," And It's 100% Not For Me - BuzzFeed March 10, 2025
- Government v. Social Media: Australia to ban social media for users under 16, U.S. to ban TikTok - The Arkansas Traveler March 10, 2025
- Trump Says TikTok Deal ‘Coming Soon’ - Social Media Today March 10, 2025
- Angel Reese strengthens WNBA threat despite social media outcry - 247Sports March 10, 2025
- Alabama Barker Gets Cozy with UCLA Football Player Scooter Jackson as They Go Social Media Official - PEOPLE 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 25, 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
Bryan Garner
I’ve put Bryan Garner’s website on our list of essential resources. Garner is a stratospherically erudite lexicographer, writer, and lawyer – and teacher.
Get smart
To welcome humbling moments is part of good mental hygiene. There is, at any rate, no way around these experiences when you teach social and digital media to university students. On that note: Here is another amazing Overdrive Interactive graphic; … Continue reading
The Melville School of Business
My academic neighbourhood at Kwantlen Polytechnic University has a new name, after philanthropists George and Sylvia Melville gifted $8 million to the school. I am so pleased, particularly with the initiatives this gift will fund. George Melville, cofounder of Boston … Continue reading
Smart luck
Teena Seelig, a professor in management science and engineering at Stanford, has been studying “luck” for two decades, according to Diana Aguilera’s article in Stanford Magazine. The professor provides some superb, lucid recommendations. My favourite: Show Appreciation. “When someone does … Continue reading
Gratitude
I have been enjoying getting to know the work of translator/poet/essayist Michael Hoffman. Without an active sense of mischief, he says, translators can easily become bitter people. “Nobody sees what you are doing, and the minute you do something, people … Continue reading
Pacing yourself
Even before my senescence began blooming, I enjoyed reading obituaries. The well-written ones are edifying distillations of character and action; their omissions are bolder than doomsday. James McMeel cofounded the Universal Press Syndicate, which distributed Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” and the … Continue reading
“immortal words”
Allen Ginsberg “finally sat on the edge of the couch and said, ‘Well, Dr [William Carlos] Williams, here we are [Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, and AG], all assembled. What immortal words do you have for us?’ So he … Continue reading
The social media landscapes
My favourite class to teach, back in the day, was an advanced digital media class at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. No other class I’ve ever taught required such continual professional development, though, and it would take me many months of preparation … Continue reading
How to write
I love my old friend Jonathan Mayhew’s prose. His blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks (Scholarly Writing and How to Get it Done), is often very charming (and it is always illuminating). Read this bit on the use of “scare quotes.” The … Continue reading
Feedback loops
The original focus of University of Washington’s Professor Kate Starbird’s research was Crisis Informatics, “the study of how information-communication technologies are used during crisis events, including natural disasters (like earthquakes and hurricanes) and man-made disasters (such as shooting events and … Continue reading