Universal Design for Learning- Penn State offers workshop series on creating inclusive learning environments - Penn State University July 7, 2025
- A scoping review of pre-service teachers’ beliefs about implementing the universal design for learning framework - Nature July 1, 2025
- Five lessons for scaling targeted instruction from implementation research in Ghana - Unicef May 21, 2025
- Florence Roche Elementary School Incorporates Universal Design for Learning, Reflects Local Landscape - School Construction News May 8, 2025
- Make Design and Technology Choices Serve All Students - EdTech Magazine May 6, 2025
- The TLC program: enhancing teaching and empowering educators - UM Today News May 6, 2025
- TILT Summer Conference to focus on engaging students through Universal Design for Learning - Colorado State University April 29, 2025
- New from ACRL - “Instructional Design for Teaching Information Literacy Online: A Student-Centered Approach” - American Library Association April 15, 2025
- Education and AI
- AI Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied - The Fulcrum July 18, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence - vocal.media July 18, 2025
- Majority of States Issue AI Guidelines for Schools - Governing July 17, 2025
- Local educator gives tips on using AI ethically this school year - WDAM-TV July 17, 2025
- Towards responsible artificial intelligence in education: a systematic review on identifying and mitigating ethical risks - Nature July 16, 2025
- When the Stakes are High, Do Machine Learning Models Make Fair Decisions? - UC San Diego Today July 16, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking in Higher Education: Fostering a Transformative Learning Experience for Students - Faculty Focus July 14, 2025
- Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education - The New York Times July 9, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Social Media MDL Judge Could Bifurcate Bellwether Trials - Law360 July 18, 2025
- Cheating CEO’s wife takes action after ‘kiss-cam’ bust - The Nightly July 18, 2025
- Are the "Sheldons" to blame for The Late Show's cancellation as Jimmy Kimmel seems to think? - Lainey Gossip July 18, 2025
- Thrifty Ice Cream teases new beginning with mystery social media post - KTLA July 18, 2025
- Grammy Winner Adele’s Rise to Fame Started on a Social Media Platform Most People Forgot About - Collider July 18, 2025
- InvestigateTV+ Weekend: Spotting the fakes in this social media scam - KWQC July 18, 2025
- Garrett Nussmeier’s Sister Drops Heartfelt Reaction on Will Campbell’s Social Media Post - Athlon Sports July 18, 2025
- Megan Byron, Andy Byron's Wife, Is Scrubbing Her Social Media - Men's Journal July 18, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - 'I was in disbelief': KPU instructor collaborates with Peter Gabriel on music video - Education News Canada July 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU named home of Canada's first genomics Technology Access Centre - Education News Canada July 10, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New KPU partnership provides international students with extra support - Education News Canada July 9, 2025
- Researchers discover new drug-resistant parasitic worm in West Africa - Peace Arch News July 3, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU journalism class partners with Black Press Media to investigate disaster preparedness in B.C. - Education News Canada June 26, 2025
- Drone show returns for Canada Day in Langley - Langley Advance Times June 24, 2025
- North Delta resident honoured with KPU alumni award - Surrey Now-Leader June 20, 2025
- 'Role model' Surrey man with Plan Your Space earns KPU young alumni award - Surrey Now-Leader June 18, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
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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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
Pernicious Balance
Scholarly journals hide everything from people who can’t afford to read them. Large language models steal everything from people who can’t afford to lose anything.
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