Universal Design for Learning
- The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning May Workshops - UM Today News April 16, 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
- UConn Waterbury’s Neurovariability Initiative: Where Cognitive Strengths Fuel Learning for All - UConn Today April 2, 2025
- Universal Design for Learning - SUNY - The State University of New York March 27, 2025
- AI Safety Learning Community #2 - UConn Events Calendar March 24, 2025
- Collaboration Is Key to Successful UDL Implementation - Language Magazine March 21, 2025
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Day–April 11 - Virginia Tech News March 14, 2025
Education and AI
- China integrates artificial intelligence into educational programs - AzerNews April 17, 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
- IC focuses on increased artificial intelligence initiatives for educational and departmental use - The Ithacan April 16, 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
- U.S. Congressman Riley Moore says he doesn’t regret social media post following visit to El Salvador prison - Real WV April 20, 2025
- Opinion: Rep. Chuck Edwards says traditional, social media can amplify political division - Yahoo April 20, 2025
- So your home’s not social-media perfect? How to get over ‘house shame’ and invite people in - Jefferson City News Tribune April 20, 2025
- Sex tourists flock to Japan’s red-light area, lured by weak yen, social media - South China Morning Post April 20, 2025
- It is the damn phones: phone and social media addiction - The Skyline View April 20, 2025
- Social media reacts to Timberwolves taking Game 1 : 'Lakers crowd was louder during the bubble' - HoopsHype April 20, 2025
- Another violent arrest by Syracuse Police circulates on social media - WSTM April 20, 2025
- Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan - Indiana Gazette Online April 20, 2025
Kwantlen
- B.C. post-secondary institutions deal with loss of revenue amid cuts to international student permits - Yahoo News UK 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 - Hope Standard April 1, 2025
- KPU receives funds for academic upgrading and language skills - Peace Arch News March 29, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University researcher granted $540K for LED lighting research on greenhouse strawberries - Greenhouse Canada March 27, 2025
- B.C. universities, colleges in crisis after widespread faculty layoffs - CityNews Vancouver March 26, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
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
Good timing
University of Washington professor Kate Starbird and several of her colleagues just published “Repeat Spreaders & Election Delegitimization,” featuring an analysis of their 2020 Election Misinformation dataset, “including 307 false, misleading, exaggerated and/or unsubstantiated claims that sowed doubt in [the … Continue reading
Stanford University’s “Writing Matters”
My former haunt, Stanford University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful “Writing Matters” series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing “writing’s connection with academic … Continue reading
What could go wrong?
No Contest friend Chester Wisniewski provides the clearest précis I’ve read regarding the extravagant promises made on behalf of “decentralized blockchains,” in The Gospel of Crypto: A Solution in Search of a Problem. It’s concise, illuminating, and persuasive.
Prime Yourself
There needs to be two of you: you and “you prime.” The latter is an heuristic entity brought into being by you for the purpose of protecting and orienting you. Your “you prime” makes the hard decisions – saying no to … Continue reading
I’m keeping in abeyance any decision I might make on maintaining my presence on Twitter. I’ve been tweeting away since 2008, though I have never been especially prolific. (That said, this platform completely redefined “prolific”!) The place had a few … Continue reading
Better
When I finally consented, two decades ago, to using the necessary phrase “passive aggressive,” I felt awful, and beaten, like I had fallen off the wagon. But I am clean again! A dear friend employed the phrase defensive envenomater this … Continue reading