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
- 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
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Across Cultures: The Application of UDL in Kuwaiti Inclusive Classrooms - ResearchGate March 2, 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
- MLB suspends Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. one game for social media outburst after ejection - Fox News April 19, 2025
- Are Easter Baskets Getting Out of Hand? - The New York Times April 19, 2025
- Megyn Kelly says Barack Obama and Michelle married the wrong people. Brutal social media reminds her she' - Times of India April 19, 2025
- Kelly Clarkson's talk show absence 'explained' says fans with social media clue - The Mirror US April 19, 2025
- Todric McGee death: Missouri State football community mourns star safety on social media - Springfield News-Leader April 19, 2025
- Judge strikes down an Ohio law limiting kids' use of social media as unconstitutional - CBS News April 19, 2025
- Welcome to America! Now hand over your phone; CBP can legally search your phone without a warrant, yes, ev - The Economic Times April 19, 2025
- Framing the Feed: How Social Media Shapes the Way We See the World - LA Progressive April 19, 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
Tag Archives: for educators
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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The Bad Mess at Evergreen
The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has earned its renown as an experimental – indeed avant-garde – institution; its ‘progressive’ bona-fides have been warranted as well. Back in the day, I explored the possibility of taking a faculty position in … Continue reading
News Literacy 2017 – a guide
With several of his graduate students NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen has just published the second annual “What’s Changing in Journalism” guide, which “depicts trends that are influencing the business now, and are still new enough that even experienced journalists may not … Continue reading
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Come to Canada
In a tart post this morning Atrios notes that he would be shocked if foreign enrollment in [American] colleges and universities wasn’t down 10%+ next year (I completely made up that figure, of course, but you get the idea) even if … Continue reading
Where are the experts on *who we are*, in the social sciences, or in the arts, … anywhere?
Over at Research as a Second Language: Writing, Representation, and the Crisis of Social Science, Danish writer Thomas Basbøll does not view this question as an academic one. Neither would he give “both” as his answer. In his stirring dissection of the United … Continue reading
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
Hence, teaching manners matters
In a blog post this morning called “A Raging Snowflake,” my good friend Clarissa writes: Remember the Oppressed Tiffany, a very special snowflake whose “narrative was erased by the entire field of academia” when a hapless prof asked her to … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, courtesy, cross-posted from basil.CA, for educators, for students
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Brainstorming
Even when participants are not being paid by the hour, meetings are costly: Notwithstanding smart-phones, no one around the table is really doing something else, at least not with an undivided focus. A poorly planned or run meeting wastes everybody’s time, … Continue reading
First Draft News
FirstDraftNews.com is a beautiful and wide-ranging resource created for journalists “who source and report stories from social media.” What is the best way to search for eyewitness media when a story breaks? What are the most efficient and effective ways to … Continue reading