Universal Design for Learning
- Teachers as Universal Learning Architects: Revolutionizing Education Through Heart-Centered Design - Rising Kashmir February 9, 2025
- SDCOE to Host Universal Design for Learning Design Jam to Make Learning Accessible for All - San Diego County Office of Education February 1, 2025
- SDCOE to Host Universal Design for Learning Design Jam to Make Learning Accessible for All - San Diego County Office of Education January 30, 2025
- Discover new teaching and learning journeys in 2025 - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Digital technologies asenablers ofuniversal design forlearning: - ResearchGate December 22, 2024
- (PDF) Investigating the Impact of Universal Design for Learning: Empowering Students with Disabilities in Higher Education - ResearchGate November 24, 2024
Education and AI
- Beleaguered Cal State University’s $17 million artificial intelligence initiative defended, attacked - The Mercury News February 9, 2025
- Augmented intelligence in medicine - American Medical Association February 7, 2025
- UNESCO Engaged Higher Education Institutions across Pakistan to Discuss Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Future - UNESCO February 7, 2025
- Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts - The Washington Post February 7, 2025
- Youth voices shape dialogue and discourse on AI and Education and learning practices in Southern Africa - UNESCO February 6, 2025
- What Is Artificial Intelligence with Examples & Uses - Simplilearn February 6, 2025
- Enshittification, artificial intelligence, and the privatization in public education - Policy Alternatives February 5, 2025
- STSD to hear cost breakdown, address artificial intelligence in education - The Wellsboro Gazette February 5, 2025
Social Media Policy
- What to Know About the Karla Sofía Gascón and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Controversies - The New York Times February 10, 2025
- Philadelphia Eagles drop Super Bowl parade hint with deleted social media post after beating the Chiefs - Daily Mail February 10, 2025
- 30-year-old takes on loneliness crisis with a social networking app that's already raised $646,000 - CNBC February 10, 2025
- When is the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl parade 2025? Team drops hint on social media - 6ABC Philadelphia February 10, 2025
- Controversial Norwin director faces censure vote again over graphic social media language - TribLIVE.com February 10, 2025
- Eagles fan Jill Biden beams with her grandkids in victorious social media post - NewsBreak February 10, 2025
- Social media reacts to Cooper DeJean’s pick-six in Super Bowl - Hawk Central February 10, 2025
- Big things are happening to social media star Anna Frey on and off the tennis court - FOX 13 News Utah February 10, 2025
Kwantlen
- Self-service braille printer opens to the public at Kwantlen’s Surrey campus - CBC.ca February 7, 2025
- Self-service braille printer open to the public at Kwantlen’s Surrey campus - MSN February 6, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU introduces self-serve braille printer for university and community use - Education News Canada February 6, 2025
- Self-service braille printer open to the public at Kwantlen’s Surrey campus - CBC.ca February 6, 2025
- Anyone can use KPU Surrey's new braille printer for a fee - Surrey Now Leader February 5, 2025
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Researchers link colonial activity to emergence of Ebola - Education News Canada February 5, 2025
- B.C. researchers aim to make the perfect T-shirt — from lumber - Business in Vancouver January 9, 2025
- Local business partnering with KPU to do several research projects in Cloverdale - Surrey Now Leader December 13, 2024
Author Archives: Robert Basil
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
“AI-powered bias meter”
Watching owners of once-great American newspapers destroy their own property has been truly shocking to me.
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
Prime marketing space!
“The Inukshuk is my friend.” The Invictus Games are coming to Vancouver and Whistler in February. It will be the first time winter sports events will be featured “in addition to the core Invictus Games sports of indoor rowing, sitting … Continue reading
Election Day in B.C.
And it’s an “atmospheric river” event in Vancouver. Timing!
Is Kwantlen Student Association trying to kill student newspaper?
Seems bad. I trust these machinations, no matter who is behind them, will not be successful. My life is already too full of dismay (thank you very much). The editor of The Runner, the student newspaper, is interviewed here. Many … Continue reading
Raw Milk
Let’s not. The marvellous Talia Lavin discusses “the collapse of consensus reality.” I love how Lavin lets loose her scorn. Increased raw milk consumption has already led to a rise in foodborne illness—including stillbirths, miscarriages and deaths, albeit in very … Continue reading