Universal Design for Learning- SFIT awards: Oyewole challenges educators to reimagine classrooms for every learner - Vanguard News September 8, 2025
- UCD Launches World-First Guidelines for Universal Design for Learning in Nursing Practice Placements - University College Dublin September 3, 2025
- Centering the Learning & Well-Being of All Children - Learning for Justice September 2, 2025
- Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Supports Inclusive Education - Learning for Justice September 2, 2025
- Stop placing the onus on neurodivergent students to ‘fit in’ - Times Higher Education August 14, 2025
- Building self-competence in health education | UDaily - University of Delaware August 12, 2025
- (PDF) The Use of UDL in an Inclusive Classroom: A Review Based Study - researchgate.net August 8, 2025
- (PDF) Developing Teachers’ Competences for Designing Inclusive Learning Experiences - researchgate.net August 7, 2025
- Education and AI
- Artificial intellegence on London Morning: The changing landscape of AI in education - CBC September 9, 2025
- Artificial intelligence and education with Mark Daley on London Morning - CBC September 9, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence for K-12 teachers: IIT Madras expands SWAYAM AI courses for educators - The Indian Express September 9, 2025
- MU Offers AI Endorsement for Educators - Millersville University September 8, 2025
- AI and education: Protecting the rights of learners - UNESCO September 8, 2025
- How Ohio universities are embracing artificial intelligence - Ohio Capital Journal September 8, 2025
- Is There a Healthy Middle Ground on AI in Schools? Try Skeptical Optimism - Education Week September 8, 2025
- On GPS: Is AI a threat to education? - CNN September 7, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Sam Altman Says Social Media Feels Fake But Who’s Really Posting? - autogpt.net September 9, 2025
- Nepal’s prime minister resigns after deadly protests over social media ban - The Washington Post September 9, 2025
- Why Gen Z in Nepal is dying over a state social media ban - The Week September 9, 2025
- IRS warns taxpayers: Social media advice can lead to costly penalties - The Tax Adviser September 9, 2025
- Unrest in Nepal Causes Riots and Social Media Bans - Green Matters September 9, 2025
- Over 1/3 of Indianapolis youth murders since 2018 involved social media - WTHR September 9, 2025
- Who uses artificial intelligence on social media and how? This is what Metricool reveals - Revista Merca2.0 September 9, 2025
- Nepal’s prime minister resigns as protests against the government and corruption rage on - AP News September 9, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU officially launches its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan - Education News Canada September 3, 2025
- 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
- B.C. college layoffs put student success at risk, faculty warn | News - dailyhive.com August 29, 2025
- Letters to The Sun: Slashing our college and universities cannot come at a worse time - Vancouver Sun 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
Author Archives: Robert Basil
I wish I had written this.
Back in the day a journalist for the Norfolk Pilot newspaper got his copy back from his editor with this note: “Sorry it’s so short but a certain amount of muck, spleen, libel, hogwash, garbage, neologism, prurience, presumption, assumption, half-assumption, … Continue reading
design + ways
My Kwantlen colleague Arley Cruther‘s essay “An Incomplete History of My Teaching Body” is breathtaking, beautiful and profound. Just published in a collection called “Voices of Practice: Narrative Scholarship from the Margin,” Arley’s piece starts this way: My summer pandemic … Continue reading
It will be so good to get back in the classroom.
I will not be able to hide my tears.
When in doubt …
… draw a distinction, says Jay Rosen.
J. Hillis Miller
Professor Miller was a genial man whose ardent advocacy of the “deconstruction” movement in literary and cultural criticism was notable for his uncommonly graceful prose style. His early book “Poets of Reality” was a revelation to me my first year … Continue reading
You got to dance with who brung you
A year or two ago a colleague who teaches business classes at my university suggested allowing students – whose term projects focused on opportunities in nations where English was not the predominant tongue – prepare their final reports/portfolios/presentations in Cantonese, … Continue reading
The mess of thinking
Inaccurate interpretations of a particular data-point can nonetheless provide metaphors that describe a lot.
Picturing the news
Peter Maass of The Intercept asks a really good question: “Why have Americans seen relatively little imagery of people suffering from Covid-19? While there is a long-running debate over the influence of disturbing images of death and dying — whether … Continue reading
Being on paper
One of my favourite publishing ventures is the “Certain Days: The Freedom for Political Prisoners” calendars, “a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, with two political prisoners being held in maximum-security … Continue reading
Detail
I seem to have come to the point where I no longer recall the exact word but I do recall exactly why only that exact word will do.