Universal Design for Learning- The International Studies Association: How to Get Involved and Maximize your Membership - UConn Events Calendar April 30, 2025
- Edge Hill secures major research funding to explore world-class inclusive education project - Educate magazine April 29, 2025
- Universal Design For Learning Workshop - UNL | Events April 23, 2025
- CoSN 2025: Universal Design for Learning Applies to Tech, Too - GovTech April 21, 2025
- The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning May Workshops - UM Today News April 16, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning for Children with ADHD - ResearchGate April 15, 2025
- Announcing the 2025 Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation Winners - University of South Carolina April 15, 2025
- Use AI and the metaverse to keep your students engaged online - Times Higher Education April 7, 2025
- Education and AI
- State pilot program exploring use of Artificial Intelligence in education - WTNH.com April 29, 2025
- Executive Order Issued Calling for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth - Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo April 28, 2025
- Workshop on Legal Aspects of the Use of Artificial Intelligence Held in Bishkek - UNESCO April 28, 2025
- AI in education: Balancing promises and pitfalls - AI News April 28, 2025
- Trump admin. seeks to improve American education through Artificial Intelligence - Christian Post April 25, 2025
- Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth (Trump EO Tracker) - JD Supra April 25, 2025
- Is Agentic AI Coming to K-12 Education? - Education Week April 25, 2025
- Trump Wants Teachers Trained How to Use AI. Will It Work? - Education Week April 24, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Rebels in Colombia are recruiting youth on social media. The UN wants TikTok and Facebook to do more - The Lawton Constitution May 1, 2025
- Social media reacts to Lakers getting eliminated: 'Anthony Edwards taking out legends one by one' - USA TODAY High School Sports May 1, 2025
- Social media reacts to Lakers getting eliminated: 'Anthony Edwards taking out legends one by one' - HoopsHype May 1, 2025
- Pete Davidson Criticizes Modern Dating Culture, Says Social Media Has Ruined Romance for Young People - gondwanauniversity.org May 1, 2025
- U. Illinois backtracks after investigating student for complaining about project partner on social media - The College Fix May 1, 2025
- Bill protecting NC children from social media can’t pass soon enough - Salisbury Post May 1, 2025
- Social Media Manager Tim Dodge bids farewell - northernstar.info May 1, 2025
- New supporters' social media policy discussed at Carlisle United meeting - Yahoo May 1, 2025
- Kwantlen
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY KPU festival celebrates South Asian arts and culture - Education News Canada April 24, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU's Wilson School of Design ranked among world's top design institutions - Education News Canada April 22, 2025
- B.C. post-secondary institutions deal with loss of revenue amid cuts to international student permits - Yahoo News UK April 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU launches new exchange program to welcome students from Tunisia - Education News Canada April 16, 2025
- Free talks, event at Richmond Seniors Expo this Wednesday - Richmond News April 7, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Hope Standard April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Aldergrove Star April 1, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
The Interruption
The renowned and divisive Hungarian-American physicist Edward Teller would tell this little story about an exchange he had with the great Niels Bohr: Some of us, including Bohr, were having a discussion about the spectrum and states of molecular oxygen. Bohr had some opinions, … Continue reading
The Hobo Ethical Code
This is beautiful. From Open Culture: 1. Decide your own life; don’t let another person run or rule you. 2. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times. 3. Don’t take … Continue reading
Where are the experts on *who we are*, in the social sciences, or in the arts, … anywhere?
Over at Research as a Second Language: Writing, Representation, and the Crisis of Social Science, Danish writer Thomas Basbøll does not view this question as an academic one. Neither would he give “both” as his answer. In his stirring dissection of the United … Continue reading
Elitism in the classroom
Professor Mayhew’s recent take on the topic: Teaching is transactional. The instructor is not feeding information to the students, teaching them that information, but interacting with them. A third element is the text in the class. The text is not … Continue reading
Hence, teaching manners matters
In a blog post this morning called “A Raging Snowflake,” my good friend Clarissa writes: Remember the Oppressed Tiffany, a very special snowflake whose “narrative was erased by the entire field of academia” when a hapless prof asked her to … Continue reading
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Battle
In the New York Times obituary section recently I came upon one for Jacob Neusner, a scholar (and polemicist) who published more than 900 books in his lifetime. I calculated – on the back of a napkin, as it were – … Continue reading
Real Words
One of the best pure writers I have ever seen was a psychology student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University named Emily (she gave me permission to use her first name). She could amalgamate and compress numerous, complex source articles into a … Continue reading
Good Motto
“I have never sacrificed an idea simply because it might go over the head of someone not yet ready to understand it.”
Satire and Critique
From the very smart libertarian blog “Hit and Run,” presented without comment, except to note that all’s well that ends well (if it does end well): Last Thursday an Ohio jury acquitted Anthony Novak, a 27-year-old man whom Parma police arrested … Continue reading
Brainstorming
Even when participants are not being paid by the hour, meetings are costly: Notwithstanding smart-phones, no one around the table is really doing something else, at least not with an undivided focus. A poorly planned or run meeting wastes everybody’s time, … Continue reading