Universal Design for Learning
- Discover new teaching and learning journeys in 2025 - UM Today January 20, 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
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- (PDF) Familiarity, Current Use, and Interest in Universal Design for Learning Among Online University Instructors - ResearchGate December 9, 2024
- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Why Accessibility Will Be the Next Big Demand From K-12 Districts - Education Week November 7, 2024
- Dreamery Speaker Series: Sessions focus on inclusive learning and accessibility - Penn State University October 31, 2024
Education and AI
- NJ Awards $1.5 Million in Grants to Promote Artificial Intelligence Education - RLS Media January 22, 2025
- Prodigy Learning and Minecraft Education Launch New Artificial Intelligence Credential Product to Prepare Students for the Age of AI - Business Wire January 22, 2025
- Artificial intelligence in education: UNESCO advances key competencies for teachers and learners - UNESCO January 22, 2025
- AI in education: what those buzzwords mean - The Conversation January 22, 2025
- Classrooms of the Future - India Today's Best Colleges January 22, 2025
- International Day of Education 2025: AI and Human Agency - India Today's Best Colleges January 22, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Medical Device - openPR January 21, 2025
- Best AI Stocks for 2025: Artificial Intelligence Investing - The Motley Fool January 20, 2025
Social Media Policy
- TikTok's fate remains unclear. Here's who wants to purchase the social media platform - Tennessean January 22, 2025
- TikTok's fate remains unclear. Here's who wants to purchase the social media platform - USA TODAY January 22, 2025
- Mark Andrews’ girlfriend makes social media change after dreadful playoff finish - New York Post January 22, 2025
- Aaron Glenn becomes NY Jets coach: Here's what Joe Namath and others are saying - NorthJersey.com January 22, 2025
- Mariners have perfect response to lone wolf Ichiro voter on social media - SoDo Mojo January 22, 2025
- Pinterest Highlights its Improving Ad Options - Social Media Today January 22, 2025
- Kierra Sheard: Gospel Singer Gags Social Media With Risqué Joke - The Shade Room January 22, 2025
- How Police Can Use Social Media to Build Community Trust - Officer January 22, 2025
Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU streamlines program completion by translating prior learning, experience into credits - Education News Canada January 9, 2025
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY KPU researchers seek to create the perfect T-shirt - Education News Canada January 8, 2025
- Local business partnering with KPU to do several research projects in Cloverdale - Surrey Now Leader December 13, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU alum's book on Taylor Swift's fashion becomes New York Times bestseller - Education News Canada December 3, 2024
- B.C. university pilots competency-based admissions program - University Affairs November 25, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU students expand Traditional Chinese Medicine education in Beijing - Education News Canada October 30, 2024
- B.C. Election: What the results across Metro Vancouver tell us about the 2024 vote - Vancouver Sun October 21, 2024
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
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