Universal Design for Learning
- CoSN 2025: Universal Design for Learning Applies to Tech, Too - GovTech April 21, 2025
- The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning May Workshops - UM Today News April 16, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning for Children with ADHD - ResearchGate April 15, 2025
- Use AI and the metaverse to keep your students engaged online - Times Higher Education April 7, 2025
- How to integrate essential Universal Design for Learning principles - TrainingZone April 4, 2025
- 2025 AMS OER and UDL Champions - UBC Faculty of Forestry April 4, 2025
- UConn Waterbury’s Neurovariability Initiative: Where Cognitive Strengths Fuel Learning for All - UConn Today April 2, 2025
- CAST Opens Nominations for 2nd Annual UDL Awards to Celebrate Inclusive Education Excellence - Newswire.com April 1, 2025
Education and AI
- Global Artificial intelligence in Education Market Soars with Smart Learning Tools - openPR.com April 21, 2025
- China Relys On Artificial Intelligence In Education Reform - VOI.ID April 20, 2025
- China will start using artificial intelligence to update the education system - Mezha.Media April 17, 2025
- China to rely on artificial intelligence in education reform bid - StartupNews.fyi April 17, 2025
- 5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Help Democratize Access to Quality Education - HackerNoon April 17, 2025
- China To Embed Artificial Intelligence Into Education Reform Strategy - Arise News April 17, 2025
- China to rely on artificial intelligence in education reform bid - Reuters April 17, 2025
- Leveraging artificial intelligence for theological education: ‘AI is not a human, it is a tool’ - www.christiandaily.com April 15, 2025
Social Media Policy
- ‘Hamas-shark’: Anti-Israel social media erupts in mockery & praise of shark attack on Israeli man - All Israel News April 22, 2025
- Vietnam targets social media users in ‘crackdown’ on dissent: rights group - South China Morning Post April 22, 2025
- New social media features and updates to know this week - PR Daily April 22, 2025
- Sex offender from Newtown accused of using social media accounts to entice minors - Hartford Courant April 22, 2025
- New AI Chibi figure trend is taking over social media - here's how you can transform into a pocket-sized toy - Daily Mail April 22, 2025
- New bill aims to shut off social media algorithms for children - Newstalk April 22, 2025
- From paralegal to social media star: Staten Island’s ‘Dunkalatte guy’ brews up strong following - SILive.com April 22, 2025
- Florida pushes controversial social media backdoor bill - Cyber Daily April 22, 2025
Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU's Wilson School of Design ranked among world's top design institutions - Education News Canada April 22, 2025
- B.C. post-secondary institutions deal with loss of revenue amid cuts to international student permits - Yahoo News Canada April 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU launches new exchange program to welcome students from Tunisia - Education News Canada April 16, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - From crochet to murals: KPU fine arts students host graduation exhibition - Education News Canada April 8, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Aldergrove Star April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Hope Standard April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Mission City Record April 1, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
The Hobo Ethical Code
This is beautiful. From Open Culture: 1. Decide your own life; don’t let another person run or rule you. 2. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times. 3. Don’t take … Continue reading
Where are the experts on *who we are*, in the social sciences, or in the arts, … anywhere?
Over at Research as a Second Language: Writing, Representation, and the Crisis of Social Science, Danish writer Thomas Basbøll does not view this question as an academic one. Neither would he give “both” as his answer. In his stirring dissection of the United … Continue reading
Elitism in the classroom
Professor Mayhew’s recent take on the topic: Teaching is transactional. The instructor is not feeding information to the students, teaching them that information, but interacting with them. A third element is the text in the class. The text is not … Continue reading
Hence, teaching manners matters
In a blog post this morning called “A Raging Snowflake,” my good friend Clarissa writes: Remember the Oppressed Tiffany, a very special snowflake whose “narrative was erased by the entire field of academia” when a hapless prof asked her to … Continue reading
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Battle
In the New York Times obituary section recently I came upon one for Jacob Neusner, a scholar (and polemicist) who published more than 900 books in his lifetime. I calculated – on the back of a napkin, as it were – … Continue reading
Real Words
One of the best pure writers I have ever seen was a psychology student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University named Emily (she gave me permission to use her first name). She could amalgamate and compress numerous, complex source articles into a … Continue reading
Good Motto
“I have never sacrificed an idea simply because it might go over the head of someone not yet ready to understand it.”
Satire and Critique
From the very smart libertarian blog “Hit and Run,” presented without comment, except to note that all’s well that ends well (if it does end well): Last Thursday an Ohio jury acquitted Anthony Novak, a 27-year-old man whom Parma police arrested … Continue reading
Brainstorming
Even when participants are not being paid by the hour, meetings are costly: Notwithstanding smart-phones, no one around the table is really doing something else, at least not with an undivided focus. A poorly planned or run meeting wastes everybody’s time, … Continue reading
Rental detectives
I’m pretty much an open book to my building manager. If I ever have to move into another rental, though, the services provided by a British data-mining company might unnerve me. Writes Stanley Q. Woodvine in Vancouver, BC’s Georgia Straight, Tenant Assured is a … Continue reading