Universal Design for Learning- Edge Hill secures major funding to explore world class inclusive education project - InYourArea May 2, 2025
- TILT Summer Conference to focus on engaging students through Universal Design for Learning - Colorado State University April 29, 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
- 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
- 2025 AMS OER and UDL Champions - UBC Faculty of Forestry April 3, 2025
- UConn Waterbury’s Neurovariability Initiative: Where Cognitive Strengths Fuel Learning for All - UConn Today April 2, 2025
- Education and AI
- St. Paul Education developing guiding principles with use of AI in classrooms - LakelandToday.ca May 2, 2025
- AI Isn’t the Answer To Our Education Crisis — It’s a Distraction - Crunchbase News May 2, 2025
- President Trump Issues Executive Order to Support AI Education and Workforce Development - NatLawReview.com May 1, 2025
- Nevada education officials outline vision for ethical use of artificial intelligence in schools - Las Vegas Sun May 1, 2025
- Conversations with AI: Education - AI News May 1, 2025
- Is AI Changing the Way We Learn? How Artificial Intelligence is Entering the Classroom - Schooldays.ie May 1, 2025
- As Wisconsin teachers grapple with artificial intelligence, Trump order calls for AI to be taught in schools - WPR April 29, 2025
- Validation of a teaching model instrument for university education in Ecuador through an artificial intelligence algorithm - Frontiers April 29, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Jalen Brunson's Amazing High School Duel With Jayson Tatum Turns Heads on Social Media - Athlon Sports May 3, 2025
- Trump posts AI photo evokes backlash praise on social media - The Sunday Guardian Live May 3, 2025
- Colorado basketball great Josh Scott comes out in social media post - The Ralphie Report May 3, 2025
- Lewis Pullman Might Not Have Social Media, But Seeing His Top Gun: Maverick Co-Star Danny Ramirez Using His Accounts To Constantly Hype Him Up Might Be Better - Cinemablend May 3, 2025
- Nearly 60% of Japanese believe election social media needs regulation - Japan Today May 3, 2025
- Ryan Reynolds dodges questions amid social media fallout with Travis Kelce - Marca.com May 3, 2025
- Maine teacher takes to social media writing 'Trump and his cronies need to die' - KEYE May 3, 2025
- How Jon Gruden became a new Blues social media sensation and made his mark at Game 6 - FOX 2 May 3, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU opens doors to 'plant some seeds' and inspire Indigenous youth - Education News Canada May 2, 2025
- VIDEO: KPU annual garden sale extended - Aldergrove Star May 1, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU researchers develop test to help protect salmon against disease - Education News Canada May 1, 2025
- 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
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Writing Matters
I had the honour of teaching students (as well as mentoring new instructors) in Stanford University’s Writing and Rhetoric program back in the day. Students from every corner of the university – from biology and engineering to sociology and English … Continue reading
Sharing Lingo
Via Bryan Garner’s amazing Law Prose Blog: “There once was a time when everyday folk spoke one language, and learned men wrote another. It was called the Dark Ages.” Samuel T. Williamson, “How to Write Like a Social Scientist,” in … Continue reading
Codeacademy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf5-G2hrb8c#t=64 Kwantlen Polytechnic University Marketing student explains why students should learn code in his post “The ‘C’ Word, and Why You Need to Add It to Your Vocabulary.” “Social collaboration through learning is an incredible motivator” to understand and write … Continue reading
“Happy”
Social Media at its most buoyant.
Social Media Landscape 2014
Our friends at CMO.com have released their Social Media Landscape 2014 table, helpfully colour-coded.
A Defense of Kristin Stewart …
… and of the poem she recently published, surrounded by snark, in Marie Claire magazine. The poem is called “My Heart is a Wiffle Ball / Freedom Pole.” Writes poet and UCLA professor Brian Kim Stefans: This [post] is partly to address … Continue reading
Bryan Garner’s LawProse.org
Bryan Garner is a lawyer whose range of work on the topics of writing and rhetoric is humbling – to me as it should be to you, too. His blog is a gas. Here he is, just the other day, … Continue reading
Teaching on the Cheap
This figure is staggering: Adjunct professors and other “contingent employees” make up 70% of the faculty in American universities. These people have no hope for tenure at their schools. Writes James Hoff in The Guardian, “All but the most elite … Continue reading
“Ladies Learning Code”
A brilliant former student of mine highly recommends this organization, “a women-run not-for-profit working to empower and inspire more women and girls to become passionate builders – not just consumers – of the web and technology.” Ladies Learning Code is … Continue reading
Goosebumps
This new ad, titled “Missing Work,” was created by Bell Canada for its “Let’s Talk Mental Health” initiative. It captures a moment – a short routine, really – very common among the chronically depressed. It is staggeringly understated and beautiful. … Continue reading