Universal Design for Learning
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Day–April 11 - Virginia Tech March 13, 2025
- Universal Design for Learning - Trinity College March 4, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Across Cultures: The Application of UDL in Kuwaiti Inclusive Classrooms - ResearchGate March 2, 2025
- How GRPM is leading with Universal Design for Learning - Rapid Growth February 26, 2025
- Universal design seeks to eliminate hurdles for all learners - Norfolk Daily News February 14, 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
- Discover new teaching and learning journeys in 2025 - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
Education and AI
- Artificial Intelligence in Education: Promise or Peril? - The Nation March 16, 2025
- AI Can Help Educators Avoid the Mistakes of the Past or Repeat Them - T.H.E. Journal March 13, 2025
- What Trump's Department of Education dismantle means for the future of AI in schools - CNBC March 13, 2025
- The Involvement of Artificial Intelligence in Education: How Smart Technology is Innovation Learning - Analytics Insight March 13, 2025
- International Forum of the Year of Digital Citizenship 2025 - UNESCO March 12, 2025
- China to Mandate AI Education in Schools, Starting with Elementary - Tempo.co English March 12, 2025
- Parents Need to Pay Attention to Artificial Intelligence, Too - Word In Black March 11, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Education Market is Forecasted to Reach US$ 20.88 Billion in 2029, Says Stratview Research - openPR March 11, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Elmira’s Capilli honors Ernie Davis with social media challenge - WETM - MyTwinTiers.com March 16, 2025
- 1000-Lb Sisters: Amy Slaton Finally Breaks Her Social Media Silence With Recent Post (Is Her New Boyfriend Replacing Her Ex?) - Screen Rant March 16, 2025
- North Carolina basketball makes NCAA Tournament field as last team in: Social media reacts - USA TODAY March 16, 2025
- Reddit Will Enable Users to Block Ads From Specific Advertisers - Social Media Today March 16, 2025
- UNC basketball sneaks into March Madness in First Four game | Social media reactions - The Fayetteville Observer March 16, 2025
- North Carolina Selected For NCAA Tournament, Social Media Loses Its Mind - Outkick March 16, 2025
- Social media's disturbing role in "delusion amplification" highlighted in new psychology research - PsyPost March 16, 2025
- Yankees Social Media Spotlight: Ace of Pain - Pinstripe Alley March 16, 2025
Kwantlen
- B.C.’s Kwantlen university lays off 70 faculty due to $49 million revenue loss - CityNews Vancouver March 15, 2025
- KPU lays off 70 staff, citing drop in international student numbers - Surrey Now Leader March 14, 2025
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Kwantlen lays off 70 faculty members - Education News Canada March 14, 2025
- Kwantlen to lay off dozens of staff due to fewer foreign students - Vancouver Sun March 14, 2025
- Kwantlen to lay off dozens of staff due to fewer foreign students - MSN March 14, 2025
- B.C.'s Kwantlen university to lay off 70 faculty due to $49 million revenue loss - Rocky Mountain Outlook - Bow Valley News March 14, 2025
- B.C.‘s Kwantlen university to lay off 70 faculty due to $49 million revenue loss - St. Catharines Standard March 14, 2025
- BC university to lay off dozens of faculty members - Daily Hive March 13, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
Making your own career rules
Radhika Nagpal, a computer science professor at Harvard, has written a wonderful piece called “The Awesomest 7 Year Post-Doc or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Tenure Track Faculty Life.” It’s about maintaining good emotional hygiene in the academic environment. … Continue reading
A couple of final notes on mentoring
My posts below summarize and respond to the superb presentation given by Erin Dick at the International Association of Business Communicators World Conference in Manhattan last month. To be honest, I had intended on *missing* this presentation, believing there was little for me … Continue reading
Mentorship without Friendship
The relationship between a mentor and a mentee need not be a friendly one. During the discussion portion of Erin Dick’s IABC presentation on mentorship, I stood up and briefly described my own experience being mentored, as a writer and … Continue reading
5 Myths about Mentorship
In her IABC presentation Erin Dyck described four myths regarding mentorship: Mentorship is top-down. One’s placement in an organizational hierarchy does not, in fact, determine the kind of wisdom and experience one can give another colleague. Mentors should be from … Continue reading
Notes on Mentorship, I
Erin Dick gave a superb talk, and then led an illuminating discussion, on the topic of “mentorship” today, the last day of the IABC’s world conference. Inspired by the speaker and my discussion attendees, I will be posting on this topic … Continue reading
International Association of Business Communicators: World Conference 2013
The IABC’s 2013 world conference has been quite a success so far. The presentations have been amply tweeted at the hashtag #IABCWC13. (My tweets about this event and other things can be found at @thebasil.)
The Art of Scolding, cont’d.
“We have somehow not successfully received your professional-development documentation,” a Dean’s Office colleague wrote me in an email early in my career at Kwantlen. The sentence both charmed and alarmed me, especially the phrase somehow not successfully received, which seemed … Continue reading
The Art of Scolding
In 1987 I promoted a story about “Secular Organizations for Sobriety” [SOS] that appeared in the Buffalo News. SOS was one of those secular humanist initiatives promulgated by Paul Kurtz’s publishing enterprises out of Buffalo, in this case “Free Inquiry,” … Continue reading
Vancouver Schools and Social Media
The RSS feed on the right-hand side of our homepage has been aggregating lots of news stories and opinion pieces on the Vancouver Board of Education’s effort to create a policy codifying the appropriate use of social media by its … Continue reading
Academic Blogging
My new favourite blog is by a Ukrainian-born scholar of Hispanic Literature named “Clarissa” – she doesn’t reveal her surname or some other would-be identifying information, like her university’s name – whose work I first encountered on Jonathan Mayhew’s Stupid … Continue reading