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
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Retirement
Reposted from basil.CA: 2025 Next year, at summer’s end, I will be retiring from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. I will remain open to other contract opportunities elsewhere after that, but this will be it for me as a full-time prof. The … Continue reading
Feedback
When interviewing candidates for teaching positions at my university, I often ask them how they provide and receive feedback in the workplace, to get a quick, vivid picture of their character and initiative. When you give clear and useful feedback … Continue reading
Counter
I have had truly unpleasant interactions with people I’ve known for years – including with those in academia – during these Olympics. Their loathsome disdain for transgenderism made them attack a non-transgendered woman, a boxer from Algeria, in giddy displays … Continue reading
ChatGPT and email
As a university prof, I both teach and, to some extent, accommodate AI platforms in the classroom. This has been a daunting, trying, and humbling experience that requires continual adjustment and correction. But there is no way around it. The … Continue reading
The work international students must do in B.C.
Several years ago my late Kwantlen colleague Arley McNeney organized a class project in which her students presented research on the challenges international students at our school face. I was embarrassed when I read their report; I had been so … Continue reading
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An artist’s hand
I suppose we could file this post under “learning” and “technology” – themes from our website’s subtitle. In this case the technology (the “application of conceptual knowledge for achieving practical goals”) is a carefully placed and pressing hand. The learning … Continue reading
Yelling at your editor
In earlier writing here on mentorship, I noted that you do not have to actually like your mentors to have a fruitful relationship with them. In one post, “Mentorship without Friendship,” I wrote: “A mentor sees in her or his … Continue reading
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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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Job-seekers need their “weaker ties”
This is a really interesting study that fortifies an important intuition: A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date on the impact of digital job sites on the labor market … Continue reading