Universal Design for Learning- 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) 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
- Trump prioritising end to Ukraine war over Russia LNG sanctions, US energy secretary says - Reuters September 10, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence for K-12 teachers: IIT-Madras expands SWAYAM AI courses for educators - The Indian Express September 10, 2025
- Empowering Minds: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Education Curricula - Business Standard September 10, 2025
- U.S. Secretary of Education highlights AI in classrooms during visit to Austin private school - KVUE September 9, 2025
- Alpha School showcases expedited student learning through artificial intelligence alongside state, federal leaders - Community Impact September 9, 2025
- 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 - Yahoo News Canada September 9, 2025
- UNESCO convenes global leaders at Digital Learning Week 2025 to shape - UNESCO September 9, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Independence Twp. Board of Trustees takes no action on social media policy - Clarkston News September 10, 2025
- Three finfluencers charged in relation to social media posts - FT Adviser September 10, 2025
- RUSD Board member Bellagio faces DPI complaint over disparaging social media comments - Racine County Eye September 10, 2025
- Nepal is the 8th country in 2025 to issue a social media ban – provoking an over 8,000% spike in VPN sign-ups - TechRadar September 10, 2025
- Chris Janson Warns of the Dangers of Social Media - DRGNews September 10, 2025
- Everyone’s on Social Media, but Teens Are the Most Active—That’s Not Good - Movieguide September 10, 2025
- What Authoritarians May Learn About Censorship From Nepal’s Protests - Time Magazine September 10, 2025
- "No Tax On Tips" Includes Digital Creators, Too - The Hollywood Reporter September 10, 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 - Daily Hive Vancouver 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
- KPU set to lay off more staff as international student enrolment plunges - Yahoo News Canada August 28, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Better research posters
I often give up in frustration when faced with “research posters,” especially as I get older and my eyesight declines. They are hard to read – too much text, not enough appropriate visual organization telling my eyes where to look. … Continue reading
Enders
There are two claims your antagonist will typically corroborate right away: “You’re being defensive!” “You always need to have the last word!” A friend in network news told me that the proper response to the first claim is “You’re changing … Continue reading
Olympia, Washington downtown community a few summers ago. (Un-fiddled-with photo.)
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To judge others
I teach my students that, by and large, the purpose of social and workplace communications is to “foster and maintain relationships” (and “to not screw up”). A few years back blogger @rsocialskills noted that this rule does *not* carry the day … Continue reading
Hunger in the classroom
When I used to teach writing in Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Special Education Teacher Assistant (SETA) program*, on our first day of classes I would tell my students that I possessed nearly none of their ability to infer the emotional or … Continue reading
The Arch Obit
Obituaries must be charming. When a writer conveys the deceased subject’s wicked faults yet still elicits empathy from the reader, the reader has been charmed into a kind of forgiveness for the dead. When the writer seeks to elicit no … Continue reading
Community College
I teach at a regional, commuter university, near Vancouver, BC: It has superb programs in traditional academic disciplines as well as in the trades. It enrols both the unusual and the usual suspects as students. Teaching them is a challenge … Continue reading
Keep your promises, keep your confidences, and keep your appointments.
The prefix para means “beside” or “beyond.” Paralinguistic or paraverbal communication usually refers to *how* one’s words are conveyed: through tone, body language, speaking speed, or even through one’s wardrobe. In both workplace and social environments, though, beside and beyond … Continue reading
Media theorist Jay Rosen’s forlorn list
A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2019. Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. 1. Absent some kind of creative intervention, 2020 campaign coverage looks like it will be the same as it ever was. Who’s … Continue reading