Universal Design for Learning- Learning Genie Unveils First AI Curriculum Agent at ASU-GSV - The Malaysian Reserve April 8, 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
- 2025 AMS OER and UDL Champions - UBC Faculty of Forestry April 4, 2025
- UConn Waterbury’s Neurovariability Initiative: Where Cognitive Strengths Fuel Learning for All - UConn Today April 2, 2025
- CAST Opens Nominations for 2nd Annual UDL Awards to Celebrate Inclusive Education Excellence - Newswire.com April 1, 2025
- Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning Book Group - KFOR.com March 31, 2025
- Universal Design for Learning - SUNY - The State University of New York March 27, 2025
- Education and AI
- Artificial Intelligence Science degree approved by State Board of Education - The Arbiter | Boise State April 9, 2025
- Anáhuac University, host of the National AI Forum 2025 organized by the SEP - Universidad Anáhuac April 7, 2025
- Think our education system is bad now? Wait ’til AI takes over. - The Hill April 5, 2025
- Student and faculty research team helps unlock the potential of AI in education - Willamette University April 3, 2025
- Peering into the Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Military Classroom - War on the Rocks April 3, 2025
- Anthropic Debuts Version of Claude AI Model for Higher Education - PYMNTS.com April 2, 2025
- Augmented intelligence in medicine - American Medical Association April 1, 2025
- AI in schools: What you need to know - GOV.UK blogs March 31, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- U.S. will monitor immigrants’ social media for ‘antisemitic activity’ - The Washington Post April 10, 2025
- Two Northeast Iowa school boards hold closed meeting after joint superintendent’s social media comments create uproar - KCRG April 10, 2025
- US says it will deny visas for antisemitic social media engagement - WKYC April 10, 2025
- West Warwick student accused of posting threats on social media removed from school - WJAR April 10, 2025
- Homeland Security Department to surveil social media accounts of immigrants, lawful residents for “antisemitic” activity - World Socialist Web Site April 10, 2025
- NE Iowa school boards hold meeting after joint superintendent’s social media comments create uproar - KCRG April 10, 2025
- T.J. Watt's cryptic Steelers post sends social media into frenzy: 'Doesn't look good' - AOL.com April 10, 2025
- US to screen social media of immigrants, rights advocates raise concerns - Reuters April 10, 2025
- Kwantlen
- 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 - Hope Standard April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - The Abbotsford News 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
- Lower Mainland university helping students find housing - The Williams Lake Tribune March 22, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU shining light on growing strawberries year-round in Canada - Education News Canada March 19, 2025
- How students and universities are dealing with a drastic reduction in international student permits - CBC March 19, 2025
Tag Archives: language
You complete the world.
It seems staggering that the brand new mayor of NYC, Eric Adams, could use the words “low skilled workers” to describe anyone who works in his city. I could walk for hours through Manhattan before seeing *anyone* whose work I … Continue reading
The root of beauty …
… is boldness, wrote Pasternak. “That is what’s brought us to one another.” Apropos: After Wolfgang Pauli had given a colloquium on some ideas related to particle physics, Pauli said to Neils Bohr: “You will probably think that what I … Continue reading
Abandoning One’s Mother Tongue
I had not thought this possible. A very poignant story via the great Language Log.
Real Words
One of the best pure writers I have ever seen was a psychology student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University named Emily (she gave me permission to use her first name). She could amalgamate and compress numerous, complex source articles into a … 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
Clichés Used in Journalism
The Washington Post compiles a helpful list; it’s up to 200. I am guilty of using the following in speaking (and the first one listed here in writing, too – alas): Any “not-un” formulation (as in “not unsurprising that you’d … Continue reading
No Word
A friend in the media emailed me this morning: “Everyone keeps talking about hostages having been taken in Paris. Doesn’t the word ‘hostage’ imply a demand on the part of the terrorists? They made no demands; they intended all along … Continue reading
Ricotta / Ree-goat
In Fairport, New York, where I grew up, there were lots of Italian American families, and I had many Italian American friends (still do). I married an Italian American from Liverpool, New York, and have a son from this marriage … Continue reading
“Epic translation success”
Read more at the always alert, amusing, and erudite Language Log.
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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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