Universal Design for Learning- Florence Roche Elementary School Incorporates Universal Design for Learning, Reflects Local Landscape - School Construction News May 8, 2025
- The TLC program: enhancing teaching and empowering educators - UM Today News May 6, 2025
- TILT Summer Conference to focus on engaging students through Universal Design for Learning - Colorado State University April 29, 2025
- (PDF) Applying UDL to Blended Learning: A Case Study of The Latin American Literature Course - ResearchGate April 28, 2025
- 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
- Announcing the 2025 Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation Winners - University of South Carolina April 15, 2025
- New from ACRL - “Instructional Design for Teaching Information Literacy Online: A Student-Centered Approach” - American Library Association April 15, 2025
- Education and AI
- Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching - Nature May 11, 2025
- The AI Revolution in Education: Transforming Learning Through Innovation - Analytics Insight May 9, 2025
- Top 24 Applications of AI: Transforming Industries Today - Simplilearn.com May 9, 2025
- The use of deep learning and artificial intelligence-based digital technologies in art education - Nature May 6, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Higher Education: What You Need to Know - World Bank May 5, 2025
- 10 Best AI Tools for Education (May 2025) - Unite.AI May 1, 2025
- President Trump Issues Executive Order to Support AI Education and Workforce Development - NatLawReview.com May 1, 2025
- Executive Order Issued Calling for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth - Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo April 29, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- SDSU student government Associated Students faces backlash for denying a social media post mentioning Gaza’s genocide - The Daily Aztec May 12, 2025
- St. Lawrence County school officials warn of dangerous ‘Chromebook Challenge’ social media trend - North Country Now May 12, 2025
- France, Greece, Spain and Ireland to push for EU-wide social media age verification - eKathimerini.com May 12, 2025
- Wayne County hiring specialist to monitor its teens on social media to prevent violence - Detroit Free Press May 12, 2025
- AI model analyzes social media posts to detect signs of depression - Tech Xplore May 12, 2025
- Sex Offender Accused of Failing to Report Social Media Accounts During Compliance Check - NEA Report May 12, 2025
- Houston police investigating threats against Astros' Lance McCullers Jr. - Houston Chronicle May 12, 2025
- Inside Kind’s ‘wink-and-nod approach’ to unveiling its refreshed logo on social media - PR Week May 12, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - 'Humbled and honoured': Lee Beavington wins B.C. teaching award - Education News Canada May 8, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - From B.C. to Britain: KPU fashion grads gain direct access to UK degree - Education News Canada May 7, 2025
- Kwantlen Farmers’ Market opens for the Summer - bcitnews.com May 6, 2025
- Yale scholars’ move to Canada can prompt us to reflect on the rule of law - The Conversation May 4, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU opens doors to 'plant some seeds' and inspire Indigenous youth - Education News Canada May 2, 2025
- VIDEO: KPU annual garden sale extended - Langley Advance Times May 1, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU researchers develop test to help protect salmon against disease - Education News Canada May 1, 2025
- B.C. post-secondary institutions deal with loss of revenue amid cuts to international student permits - Yahoo News Canada April 17, 2025
Tag Archives: academic writing
Peers
Clarissa has a couple of words: In a way, the censorship in US academia is worse than the Soviet kind. The Soviet censors were mostly dumb, uneducated people, and it wasn’t all that hard to pull wool over their eyes … Continue reading
Transformative learning and student autonomy
No Contest co-founder Tierney Wisniewski has written a beautifully conceived and composed Master’s Thesis. Here’s the abstract. [I’ve added some paragraphing for ease of online reading, because abstracts by requirement are very, very fat.] Self-determination theory (SDT) is a well-established theory … Continue reading
No plagiarism foul
A super-smart student in my Advanced Professional Communications class asked me whether using an app that generates a citation for you in proper APA, MLA, Chicago style was plagiarism. My first thought was “I doubt it,” but in my line … Continue reading
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Writing in the Sciences
“The more that you take care with your writing, the more you might explore uncertainties in your thinking,” suggests Stanford University Environmental Earth System Science Professor Julie Kennedy in this excellent Writing Matters video. Kennedy helpfully stresses the primacy of … Continue reading
The ‘Fuzzy Logic’ Man
“He always took criticism as a compliment,” said Stuart Russell, a Berkeley professor who worked next door to Mr. Zadeh for many years. “It meant that people were considering what he had to say.”
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
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
More on Clichés …
From professor Jonathan Mayhew: One of Orwell’s sillier pieces of writing advice is “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.” Orwell advises “scrapping of every word or idiom which … Continue reading
On Poetry
My friend Jonathan Mayhew has been on a tear of late, publishing a series of manifestos on poetry in his wonderful blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks. Some snippets (but read the whole thing): Manifesto (1) Nobody knows what poetry is for. … Continue reading
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Free textbooks and other resources for students and educators
Students who suffer under the burden of high tuition and large student loans need all the financial help the world can provide them. For my upper-level communications classes the last couple of years I have been using an excellent online … Continue reading
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