Universal Design for Learning- A scoping review of pre-service teachers’ beliefs about implementing the universal design for learning framework - Nature July 1, 2025
- Penn State offers workshop series on creating inclusive learning environments - Penn State Altoona July 1, 2025
- CAST Brings UDL Leaders in Inclusive Education to Washington, DC for UDL-Con: International 2025 - Newswire :) Press Release Distribution May 12, 2025
- 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
- Make Design and Technology Choices Serve All Students - EdTech Magazine May 6, 2025
- TILT Summer Conference to focus on engaging students through Universal Design for Learning - Colorado State University April 29, 2025
- CoSN 2025: Universal Design for Learning Applies to Tech, Too - GovTech April 21, 2025
- Education and AI
- Schools turn to handwritten exams as AI cheating surges - Fox News July 4, 2025
- How GenAI Is Reshaping AI Course Content - Vocal July 3, 2025
- How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the World Forever - Vocal June 30, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Education: Transforming Learning for the Next Generation - Vocal June 30, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence: The new infrastructure for college education - Eagle-Tribune June 30, 2025
- It’s true that my fellow students are embracing AI – but this is what the critics aren’t seeing - The Guardian June 29, 2025
- ‘The biggest risk is doing nothing’: insights from early adopters of artificial intelligence in schools and further education colleges - GOV.UK June 27, 2025
- There’s no simple solution to universities’ AI worries | Letters - The Guardian June 23, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Man abducted, assaulted after being lured via social media - Times of India July 5, 2025
- Elon Musk and Trump’s Feud Has Escalated to Vague Deportation Threats - Inc.com July 5, 2025
- ‘Paper Moon’ Star, 61, Looks ‘Beautiful’ in Rare Unfiltered Social Media Share: ‘Glad To Be Alive’ - parade.com July 5, 2025
- Steph Curry’s Subtle Social Media Comment Has Fans Buzzing About LeBron James Trade Rumors - Yahoo Sports July 5, 2025
- This Broadway singer was interrupted mid-performance by her young daughter: Her reaction has touched social me - Diario AS July 5, 2025
- Joao Fonseca sends message to fans on social media after bowing out of Wimbledon in the fourth round - The Tennis Gazette July 5, 2025
- North Texas girls among missing Camp Mystic attendees after deadly Central Texas floods - CBS News July 5, 2025
- Lexie Hull’s Mom Responds to Social Media Post About Her Daughter - Yahoo Sports July 5, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Researchers discover new drug-resistant parasitic worm in West Africa - Peace Arch News July 3, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New drug-resistant parasitic worm discovered in West Africa - Education News Canada July 3, 2025
- Drone show returns for Canada Day in Langley - Langley Advance Times June 24, 2025
- Langley-based university fasttracks learning for brewing, engineering programs - Aldergrove Star June 22, 2025
- 'Role model' Surrey man with Plan Your Space earns KPU young alumni award - Peace Arch News June 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU honours Hong Yan Melody Pan with 2025 Alumni Excellence Award - Education News Canada June 16, 2025
- Visual artist Brandon Gabriel designs paddles to represent five KPU campuses - Pancouver June 10, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New Indigenous artworks to be unveiled at KPU convocation ceremonies - Education News Canada June 10, 2025
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“Prompt Engineering”
Even before my friend Chet fully explained to me what this term meant, I was on board with it. From Forbes the other day: The democratization of Artificial Intelligence and, specifically, the generative models boom seems to have changed everything. … Continue reading
“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
Merry Xmas!
From the great Bryan Garner: You can buy the new, 5th edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage here.
This can go a long way
This semester I asked a student of mine who’s in my university’s HR program whether human resources professionals needed to actually like people. (I wish I remember why I asked!) She told me nobody had ever asked her that question … Continue reading
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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.
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.
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
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
More on rigour
Over at the Teaching and Learning Commons, my colleague Jennifer Hardwick places the concept of rigour in the context of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) : The Oxford English Dictionary defines “rigour” as “the fact of being careful and paying great … Continue reading
Pedagogy
Rigour seems to mean two different practices: The thoroughgoing-ness of the curriculum (here rigour is expected of the professor in terms preparation *and delivery*) and the exactingness of assessment (where the onus is on the student, at the mercy of … Continue reading