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
- GASTECH Trump prioritising end to Ukraine war over Russia LNG sanctions, US energy secretary says - Reuters September 10, 2025
- Upstart school network focuses on using artificial intelligence - NewsNation 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
- Social Media Policy
- Dallas Stars forward announces engagement on social media - WFAA September 10, 2025
- Robinhood unveils plans for social media platform - Citywire September 10, 2025
- Manufacturers Won’t Go Taylor-Travis Viral, But Here’s How They Can Win On Social Media - Forbes September 10, 2025
- Juvenile accused of sending social media threat at Hickory Christian Academy: Police - Queen City News September 10, 2025
- In social media post, Trump delights in Missouri redistricting - FOX 2 September 10, 2025
- Butler County man sentenced for sexually exploiting toddler on social media - WKRC September 10, 2025
- 3 fired FBI officials sue Patel, saying he bowed to Trump administration's 'campaign of retribution' - WCVB September 10, 2025
- Chambersburg man charged with witness intimidation after social media posts - Tri-State Alert 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
- Mounting layoffs at B.C. schools creating 'biggest crisis in post-secondary ever,' faculty association says - CBC August 28, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Stopping the page from being blank …
In the mid-1990s, shortly after I moved to Vancouver, I got a job doing Investor Relations for a public company drafting news releases, presentations, brochures, and the like. I would put drafts of these items together and present them to … Continue reading
Catastrophe
I have always considered being a bit of a catastrophist an important part of my mental hygiene. This started in my undergraduate days when I took a lot of classes in probability and statistics. The most important word in the … Continue reading
Pretentiousness done right
God bless Janet Malcolm. What books are on your nightstand? I take it you mean the imaginary Doric column that supports a teetering pile of current and old books that the interviewee wants to bring to the reader’s attention. My … Continue reading
Naked Security
The “Naked Security” blogs published by Sophos remind me how vigilant online publishers – and all organizations, really – have to be to protect their content, their data, even their names. Indeed, the word “vigilance” needs to at the top … Continue reading
Free at Last
United States copyright law was changed repeatedly in the last century to grant copyright extensions to entire classes of works of literature and entertainment. This meant that such work could not be referenced at length in works of scholarship without … Continue reading
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The Cannabis Curriculum
From my visionary university.
“The Personal Essay”
From the wonderful Atrios: Generally, when any part of education rewards students for being confessional, you are going to attract/reward students who are comfortable with the genre of personal confession. It’s a weird thing to ask of students, and a weird … Continue reading
10% and “the crisis in knowledge”
Writes Jonathan Mayhew: Knowledge is under attack from several fronts at once. In science itself, it is due to corporate corruption and the inherent bias toward interesting but possibly false results. There was that paper about how most scientific findings are false. … Continue reading
“Pedagogy of Delinquency”
From my friend Clarissa: There are several foundational principles to the pedagogy of delinquency. Respect. These are kids who value respect like nothing else in the world because it’s so rare in their world. Respect yourself, respect them, and accept … Continue reading