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
- Is There a Healthy Middle Ground on AI in Schools? Try Skeptical Optimism - Education Week September 8, 2025
- Pharmacy Students’ Perceptions and Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Oman: A Cross-Sectional Survey - Cureus September 7, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Schools? - tovima.com September 7, 2025
- AI and machine learning for engineering design - MIT News September 7, 2025
- Artificial intelligence, rising tuition discussed by educational leaders at UMD - Northern News Now September 6, 2025
- Melania Trump Issues an AI Challenge for Students. Will It Help Build AI Literacy? - Education Week September 5, 2025
- Duke University pilot project examining pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in college - WRAL.com September 5, 2025
- Be Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI - The Guardian September 5, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- M&S on why its ‘vast’ social media structure drives virality - Marketing Week September 8, 2025
- Illinois Social Media Reacts as the Illini Enter AP Poll Top 10 for First Time Since 2001 - Sports Illustrated September 8, 2025
- Nepal bans 26 social media sites including X, WhatsApp and YouTube - The Guardian September 8, 2025
- DOJ civil rights chief calls for cases on social media amid exodus of staff - The Washington Post September 8, 2025
- Stay safe on social media: What not to post online - ECR September 8, 2025
- Social Media Channels Launched for ENHYPEN’s First Cinematic Adventure Game - Businesskorea September 8, 2025
- Weighted vests are trending on social media. Can it really help with bone density and weight loss? - Yahoo News Canada September 8, 2025
- Do the viral weighted vests actually work? - Euronews.com September 8, 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
- KPU set to lay off more staff as international student enrolment plummets - MSN August 31, 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
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Apropos The Georgia Straight
Dan Savage was not exaggerating the problems faced by alt-weeklies in recent years. From The Tyee last week: The crew at the Georgia Straight wrote until the bitter end, filing stories and chronicling Vancouver’s culture after the paycheques stopped flowing … Continue reading
Savage Love
The prose of Dan Savage is bold and crystal clear – and edifying to a profound degree. It always has been. I started reading his column in the San Francisco’s alt-weekly back in the early 90s and kept up that … Continue reading
If you hadn’t noticed …
Here we go again. — Liberals loathe the political Right’s hypocrisy and unfairness. Conservatives loathe the Left’s immorality and delicacy. The groups’ estimations of their own qualities, though, are less precise. The question of “hypocrisy” is particularly interesting. La Rochefoucauld … Continue reading
Looking for new colleagues
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a vibrant and splendid place to work. My own department – Applied Communications (in the Melville School of Business) – is looking for two new instructors. We’re a good crowd. Apply here.
Job-seekers need their “weaker ties”
This is a really interesting study that fortifies an important intuition: A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date on the impact of digital job sites on the labor market … Continue reading
How to write a lede
From the Irish Times: Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to … Continue reading
Silly professor
It is puzzling, perhaps, when the paper of record publishes a piece arguing that it’s a waste of money and time providing and receiving education in schools.
Hootsuite blog
Hootsuite, Vancouver’s vaunted social media management company, has helpfully updated the design of its already excellent blog. There are fewer listicles and more how-to cheat sheets (a favourite genre of mine, as my students know). A couple of days ago … Continue reading
The scale of a work
Our friend Jonathan Mayhew, on finding the right size (for a book): I like saying that [my upcoming book on Lorca and music] is a medium sized book on a vast subject. So it is with scholarship. You are rarely … Continue reading
Talisman
The Paper Hound is “a new, used, and rare book store” on Pender Street in downtown Vancouver. “We don’t specialize in one particular kind of book, but we favour the classic, curious, odd, beautiful, visually arresting, scholarly, bizarre, and whimsical.” … Continue reading