Universal Design for Learning- The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning December Workshops - UM Today November 19, 2024
- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Reducing Barriers to Learning with Universal Design for Learning - University of Nebraska–Lincoln November 13, 2024
- Inclusive education: Get started by making small changes to your education practice | Teaching & Learning - UCL - University College London November 4, 2024
- 10 Tips toward Accessibility - American Libraries November 1, 2024
- Annual seminar at Brindavan Education Trust on November 9 in Bengaluru - Deccan Herald November 1, 2024
- Dreamery Speaker Series: Sessions focus on inclusive learning and accessibility - Penn State University October 31, 2024
- Professional learning spotlight: OCDE to offer training on Universal Design for Learning - OCDE Newsroom September 26, 2024
- Education and AI
- Artificial intelligence at Tulane will transform research, education - Tulane Hullabaloo November 21, 2024
- University Launches Master’s Degree for AI in Education - Education Week November 19, 2024
- Exploring generative AI through the lens of science fiction: A framework for educational dialogue - eSchool News November 19, 2024
- Adjusting accelerators with help from machine learning - Phys.org November 18, 2024
- Developing a Canadian artificial intelligence medical curriculum using a Delphi study - Nature.com November 18, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence in Education Market Report - GlobeNewswire November 18, 2024
- Using artificial intelligence in education: decision tree learning results in secondary school students based on cold and hot executive functions - Nature.com November 18, 2024
- Application of Artificial Intelligence to Education in Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka Guardian November 18, 2024
- Social Media Policy
- Australia plans social media ban for under 16s - Financial Times November 21, 2024
- Social Media detoxing (from a former iPad kid) - The Flor-Ala November 21, 2024
- Social media influencer faces murder charges after crash leaves 83-year-old woman dead - WKRC TV Cincinnati November 21, 2024
- Franklin High School partners with TikTok to encourage healthy social media boundaries - KOIN.com November 21, 2024
- Live news: Bitcoin extends rise as chipmakers muted after Nvidia results - Financial Times November 21, 2024
- LeBron James says he is taking break from social media over ‘negative takes’ - Sportstar November 21, 2024
- LeBron James Steps Away from Social Media - Devdiscourse November 21, 2024
- LeBron James says he’s taking a social media break over ‘negative takes’ - The Guardian November 21, 2024
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen University student newspaper threatened with shutdown - MSN November 20, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 2024
- KPU graduate showcases collection at Vancouver Fashion Week - Richmond News November 17, 2024
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Researchers explore memory failure across the lifespan - Education News Canada November 13, 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
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU community honoured with King Charles III Coronation Medal - Education News Canada October 17, 2024
- 'Security threat' near KPU's Langley campus - Langley Advance Times October 15, 2024
Tag Archives: academic writing
Autofilling the Data Gaps
My macroeconomics professor at The University at Buffalo told our class, at semester’s end, that people in his profession “had a lot to be humble about.” I loved that line and have used it hundreds of times since, to describe … Continue reading
Ethan Mollick on Using Artificial Intelligence in Student Writing
I have added Ethan Mollick’s substack blog, “One Useful Thing,” to our Resources list (above). A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Mollick writes that he’s “trying to understand what our new AI-haunted era means for … Continue reading
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“Pre-Planned Feelings”
We have discussed our friend Clarissa‘s opinions on American academia and other topics in the past. She is an Hispanic Studies professor at a midwestern public university whose blog is always vividly written (and is contentious by design, I would … 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
Not included.
Sometimes you have to read a story two or three times to make sure you’re reading it right. As in: A PhD candidate is hoping the University of Alberta changes its practice on publishing theses after hers was rejected for spelling her [Urdu] … 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
J. Hillis Miller
Professor Miller was a genial man whose ardent advocacy of the “deconstruction” movement in literary and cultural criticism was notable for his uncommonly graceful prose style. His early book “Poets of Reality” was a revelation to me my first year … Continue reading
Free at Last
United States copyright law was changed repeatedly in the last century to grant copyright extensions to entire classes of works of literature and entertainment. This meant that such work could not be referenced at length in works of scholarship without … Continue reading
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10% and “the crisis in knowledge”
Writes Jonathan Mayhew: Knowledge is under attack from several fronts at once. In science itself, it is due to corporate corruption and the inherent bias toward interesting but possibly false results. There was that paper about how most scientific findings are false. … Continue reading
Good scholarly habits
My dear friend Tierney Wisniewski, this website’s cofounder and coeditor, has started up a new blog devoted to her scholarly work and how she gets it done. I love her inaugural piece, “Good Scholarly Habits.” Tierney writes with great clarity and … Continue reading