Universal Design for Learning
- Centering the Learning & Well-Being of All Children - Learning for Justice September 2, 2025
- Chandler Unified teachers ‘take a walk’ to learn - chandlernews.com August 31, 2025
- Digital Accessibility by Design - NAESP August 25, 2025
- Building a Course from Scratch: When Time is Not on Your Side - Faculty Focus August 20, 2025
- Stop placing the onus on neurodivergent students to ‘fit in’ - Times Higher Education August 14, 2025
- Building self-competence in health education - University of Delaware August 12, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning: Meeting the Needs of All Students - researchgate.net August 7, 2025
- (PDF) Developing Teachers’ Competences for Designing Inclusive Learning Experiences - researchgate.net August 7, 2025
Education and AI
- California Education Department Launches AI Workgroup - GovTech September 2, 2025
- Virginia Colleges Take Varied Approach to AI Education - GovTech September 2, 2025
- Classroom learning looks different with artificial intelligence - KOIN.com September 1, 2025
- California Official Tony Thurmond to Convene ‘Artificial Intelligence in Education’ Workgroup - Moguldom August 30, 2025
- State superintendent to convene 'Artificial Intelligence in Education' workgroup - KSBW August 29, 2025
- Notre Dame Law School Becomes First Law School to Partner with Harvey AI to Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Legal Education - University of Notre Dame August 28, 2025
- Preston school board discusses artificial intelligence in education - WV News August 28, 2025
- Solving the soft skills crisis using artificial intelligence - Times Higher Education August 27, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Trump dismisses health rumours, calls reports on social media “Fake” - Daijiworld September 3, 2025
- Facebook vs Malaria: How social media campaigns can influence public health - The Times of India September 3, 2025
- GRPD investigates a home burglary as case gains social media attention - FOX 17 West Michigan News September 3, 2025
- Meet the Guy Who Trolled Bill Belichick - Time Magazine September 3, 2025
- Sansum Healthcare Employees Under Fire for Social Media Posts Allegedly Mocking Patients - Edhat September 3, 2025
- Trump dismisses social media rumors about his health as 'fake news' - Le Monde.fr September 3, 2025
- How TCU social media leaned into Bill Belichick hype: Memes, one-liners and plenty of receipts - The New York Times September 3, 2025
- 'Haven't seen, fake news': Trump responds to social media speculation on his health - Firstpost September 3, 2025
Kwantlen
- VIDEO: Ford fans at KPU in Langley today - Aldergrove Star September 1, 2025
- 'Wake-up call': Decline of international students forces layoffs, program suspensions at B.C. schools - Times Colonist September 1, 2025
- KPU set to lay off more staff as international student enrolment plummets - MSN August 31, 2025
- B.C. college layoffs put student success at risk, faculty warn | News - Daily Hive Vancouver August 29, 2025
- Donation big help to program - Langley Advance Times August 29, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - More layoffs at Kwantlen Polytechnic University as international enrollment plummets - Education News Canada August 29, 2025
- Mounting layoffs at B.C. schools creating 'biggest crisis in post-secondary ever,' faculty association says - CBC August 28, 2025
- 'Wake-up call': Decline of international students forces layoffs, program suspensions at B.C. schools - Vancouver Sun August 28, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Avoid unnecessary fates
Our website’s founding friend Chet Wisniewski has a new podcast: “Security. Take. Two. Real. Serious. Security.” Chet with his colleague Ben Verschaeren revisit notable IT security calamities with profound and lively stories – “once the truth is known, discovering lessons … Continue reading
Mind = Soul
Reading is a form of controlled hallucination. AI sidesteps one of the most wonderful miracles of the mind.
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Sure Why Not
God. The agency said that if a house of worship endorsed a candidate to its congregants, the I.R.S. would view that not as campaigning but as a private matter, like “a family discussion concerning candidates.” (The title is a fine … Continue reading
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Almost time to go
Kwantlen Polytechnic University has been at or near the centre of my life for more than two decades. We’ll keep the newsfeed here up into my retirement years, though.
Bryan Garner’s “Tip of the Day”
You really must subscribe. Today’s was delightfully humbling: racket; racquet. For the implement used in net games, racket is standard in American English and British English alike. The variant racquet appears in some proper names (e.g., the Palm Springs Racquet Club) seemingly because the “fancy” … Continue reading
Welcome them in.
In a piece for The Conversation Canada, my Kwantlen Polytechnic University colleague Jeffrey Meyers writes about Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder, two eminent American scholars who fled Yale University and the United States, taking positions at the University of Toronto, … Continue reading
Pope Francis
“When people ask for a blessing, an exhaustive moral analysis should not be placed as a precondition for conferring it. For those seeking a blessing should not be required to have prior moral perfection.” “A little bit of mercy makes the … Continue reading
Amtrak’s social-media marketing
My favourite way to travel is by train, so I follow all of Amtrak’s accounts. They are very witty: When Southwest Airlines announced they were charging for bags, Amtrak posted on X, “Guess we’re the only ones doing free baggage now.” … Continue reading
Fake friends
In his article “Enshittification, artificial intelligence, and the privatization of public education,” Dr. Chris Samuel warns that artificial intelligent’s infiltration into education (AIED) will likely mimic the same depressing “enshittification” users saw in platforms like Facebook, Google, and X/Twitter. First, … Continue reading
Happy Public Domain Day!
From The Public Domain Review: Another year dawns… and another bevy of works dust off their copyright and emerge fresh-faced, full of hope, into the elysian plains of the public domain! On this year’s Public Domain Day (which falls each January … Continue reading