AI and Education
- Educators Trained to Harness Artificial Intelligence by Comenius Institute - elblog.pl April 19, 2024
- Faculty, students torn on the value of artificial intelligence in education - Purdue Northwest Pioneer April 19, 2024
- The power of AI in education - Public Sector Executive April 19, 2024
- USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA announce breakthrough in aerospace machine learning - Edwards Air Force Base April 17, 2024
- Why Teaching Students How to Use Artificial Intelligence Could Make Them Employable Adults - EdTech Magazine: Focus on K-12 April 16, 2024
- 3 Questions: Enhancing last-mile logistics with machine learning - MIT News April 16, 2024
- SDSU hosts summit on artificial intelligence in education - San Diego State University April 16, 2024
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education - elblog.pl April 16, 2024
- Top AI Interview Questions and Answers for 2024: Get Insights! - Simplilearn April 15, 2024
- What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? - Investopedia April 9, 2024
- UMD Launches Institute Focused on Ethical AI Development - Maryland Today April 9, 2024
- Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year's STAAR tests - The Texas Tribune April 9, 2024
Social Media Policy
- What happens when we train our AI on social media? - Fast Company April 19, 2024
- How Meg Stalter Went From Social Media to a Leading TV Role - The New York Times April 19, 2024
- Cult of Columbine: Why young followers glorify the school shooters - USA TODAY April 19, 2024
- The Social Media Expo: Where Connections Are Made - The Cougar's Byte April 19, 2024
- 12 jurors seated in Trump hush money trial as more alternates sought - The Washington Post April 19, 2024
- Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks due to dangerous defect exposed on social media - TheStreet April 19, 2024
- Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks due to dangerous defect exposed on social media - Gwinnettdailypost.com April 19, 2024
- In case you missed it: This week's Top 5 stories on social media - Mayo Clinic April 19, 2024
- Porn and social media are killing childhood - UnHerd April 19, 2024
- TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age - The Conversation April 19, 2024
- VIDEO: Social media increases endometriosis awareness, knowledge - Healio April 19, 2024
- Anime's Outsized Impact on Social Media, Quantified - Anime Trending News April 19, 2024
Universal Design for Learning
- Studio G Architects, Leftfield Project Management and Gilbane continue work on Groton school - New England Real Estate Journal Online April 19, 2024
- PIECE Spring Speaker Series – School of Education - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee March 25, 2024
- Teaching and Learning (TLC) Program workshops are available to all instructors - UM Today March 21, 2024
- USAID Morocco Bridge to Middle School Activity (Bridge) - FHI 360 March 20, 2024
- Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Supports Inclusive Education - Tolerance.org March 11, 2024
- Home Universal Design for Learning in Academic Libraries: Theory into Practice - American Library Association March 8, 2024
- Empowering Learning for All: The Role of Accessibility in Lifelong Learning - ATD March 5, 2024
- Western profs use Universal Design for Learning principles to make classes more accessible - The Gazette • Western University's Newspaper March 5, 2024
- Best practices in online course design for college students - Inside Higher Ed February 27, 2024
- Opportunity to apply for CUNY Open Education Publishing Institute | Center for Teaching & Learning - Boston University February 26, 2024
- Including Diverse Role Models in STEM Curricula | Center for Teaching & Learning - Boston University February 10, 2024
- Why Diversity at Conferences Matters | Center for Teaching & Learning - Boston University February 10, 2024
Kwantlen
- Update: KPU lockdown ends - Langley Advance Times April 16, 2024
- KPU greenhouses locked down, Langley police search for suspect - Peace Arch News April 16, 2024
- Food Truck Wars returns to Langley for 3rd year - Langley Advance Times April 10, 2024
- A Semester Exchange Program at KPU Canada Fall Semester 2024 with UMAP Scholarship - ITS Global Engagement - Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) April 7, 2024
- KPU festival celebrates South Asian community - Peace Arch News April 6, 2024
- KPU scientist honoured for fisheries research - Williams Lake Tribune April 3, 2024
- KPU set to host second annual Wake Up! Festival - The Georgia Straight March 1, 2024
- Solo guitarist Trace Bundy coming to KPU's Langley campus - Langley Advance Times February 27, 2024
- Start a Career in VFX, Gaming, or Animation at KPU - The Georgia Straight February 22, 2024
- KPU receives funding to support internationally educated nurses - Peace Arch News February 22, 2024
- KPU students release Czech-style dark lager - Langley Advance Times February 21, 2024
- KPU connects criminology students and inmates to break stigma surrounding those incarcerated - CityNews Vancouver February 12, 2024
- KPU connects students and prisoners to break stigma - CityNews Vancouver February 11, 2024
- Students go inside prison in 'eye-opening' B.C. university course - Williams Lake Tribune February 10, 2024
- Socially responsible, ready to inspire - Surrey Now Leader February 4, 2024
Tag Archives: academic writing
Peers
Clarissa has a couple of words: In a way, the censorship in US academia is worse than the Soviet kind. The Soviet censors were mostly dumb, uneducated people, and it wasn’t all that hard to pull wool over their eyes … Continue reading
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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Writing in the Sciences
“The more that you take care with your writing, the more you might explore uncertainties in your thinking,” suggests Stanford University Environmental Earth System Science Professor Julie Kennedy in this excellent Writing Matters video. Kennedy helpfully stresses the primacy of … Continue reading
The ‘Fuzzy Logic’ Man
“He always took criticism as a compliment,” said Stuart Russell, a Berkeley professor who worked next door to Mr. Zadeh for many years. “It meant that people were considering what he had to say.”
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
Battle
In the New York Times obituary section recently I came upon one for Jacob Neusner, a scholar (and polemicist) who published more than 900 books in his lifetime. I calculated – on the back of a napkin, as it were – … 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
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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Free textbooks and other resources for students and educators
Students who suffer under the burden of high tuition and large student loans need all the financial help the world can provide them. For my upper-level communications classes the last couple of years I have been using an excellent online … Continue reading
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