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) Developing Teachers’ Competences for Designing Inclusive Learning Experiences - researchgate.net August 7, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning: Meeting the Needs of All Students - researchgate.net August 7, 2025
- Education and AI
- Giving Day 2025: Supporting research that could revolutionize the future of medicine - University of Saskatchewan September 8, 2025
- MU Offers AI Endorsement for Educators - Millersville University September 8, 2025
- Is There a Healthy Middle Ground on AI in Schools? Try Skeptical Optimism - Education Week September 8, 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
- Melania Trump hosts White House Task Force on Al Education - NBC News September 4, 2025
- Bentley Systems, Incorporated Signs Pledge to Support Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth - MarketScreener September 4, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Julio Rodriguez Issues Strong Message In Latest Social Media Post - Sports Illustrated September 8, 2025
- IRS says social media claims cost taxpayers $162 million - The San Joaquin Valley Sun September 8, 2025
- Aptos High says ‘offensive’ social media post violates values; review underway | HIgh school football - Santa Cruz Sentinel September 8, 2025
- At least 19 killed, hundreds injured in protests after Nepal social media ban - The Washington Post September 8, 2025
- Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’ - TechCrunch September 8, 2025
- Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’ - Yahoo Finance September 8, 2025
- Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS social media reactions spark debate on its mysterious nature. Here's all glaring details - The Economic Times September 8, 2025
- Nepal blocks social media sites - Developing Telecoms 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
Good timing
University of Washington professor Kate Starbird and several of her colleagues just published “Repeat Spreaders & Election Delegitimization,” featuring an analysis of their 2020 Election Misinformation dataset, “including 307 false, misleading, exaggerated and/or unsubstantiated claims that sowed doubt in [the … Continue reading
Stanford University’s “Writing Matters”
My former haunt, Stanford University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful “Writing Matters” series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing “writing’s connection with academic … Continue reading
What could go wrong?
No Contest friend Chester Wisniewski provides the clearest précis I’ve read regarding the extravagant promises made on behalf of “decentralized blockchains,” in The Gospel of Crypto: A Solution in Search of a Problem. It’s concise, illuminating, and persuasive.
Prime Yourself
There needs to be two of you: you and “you prime.” The latter is an heuristic entity brought into being by you for the purpose of protecting and orienting you. Your “you prime” makes the hard decisions – saying no to … Continue reading
I’m keeping in abeyance any decision I might make on maintaining my presence on Twitter. I’ve been tweeting away since 2008, though I have never been especially prolific. (That said, this platform completely redefined “prolific”!) The place had a few … Continue reading
Better
When I finally consented, two decades ago, to using the necessary phrase “passive aggressive,” I felt awful, and beaten, like I had fallen off the wagon. But I am clean again! A dear friend employed the phrase defensive envenomater this … Continue reading
Not included.
Sometimes you have to read a story two or three times to make sure you’re reading it right. As in: A PhD candidate is hoping the University of Alberta changes its practice on publishing theses after hers was rejected for spelling her [Urdu] … Continue reading
Information warfare
Chester Wisniewski, longtime friend of this blog and principal research scientist at Sophos, has been studying Russian cyber aggression for a very long time. In a new piece he describes the kind of threats we can expect from Russia as … Continue reading
The other Spotify scandal
Esteemed recording engineer Steve Albini explains in a recent twitter thread that there’s “an important thread of continuity over time about the exploitation of bands by record labels that deserves a closer look, re the current Spotify debate.” It is … Continue reading
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