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
- 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
- Sabrena Deal shapes inclusive learning and design at Grady - Grady College September 25, 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: 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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