Universal Design for Learning- CAST Brings UDL Leaders in Inclusive Education to Washington, DC for UDL-Con: International 2025 - Newswire :) Press Release Distribution May 12, 2025
- Florence Roche Elementary School Incorporates Universal Design for Learning, Reflects Local Landscape - School Construction News May 8, 2025
- Make Design and Technology Choices Serve All Students - EdTech Magazine May 6, 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
- New from ACRL - “Instructional Design for Teaching Information Literacy Online: A Student-Centered Approach” - American Library Association April 15, 2025
- Six Faculty Members Receive 2025 Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation - University of South Carolina April 15, 2025
- Education and AI
- From supercomputers to surgical tools: Florida's colleges embrace AI to meet demand - The Business Journals June 20, 2025
- How artificial intelligence is transforming education in 2025 - London Daily News June 19, 2025
- Local nonprofit brings artificial intelligence education to elementary students - WTOL June 18, 2025
- AI classrooms: The future of education - telefonica.com June 18, 2025
- The best-case scenario for AI in schools - BBC June 17, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Education: Risks, Opportunities and What’s Next - Yahoo June 11, 2025
- AI in schools and colleges: what you need to know - GOV.UK blogs June 10, 2025
- What Can Higher Education Gain from Artificial Intelligence? - Public Policy Institute of California June 10, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- President Lee to post social media messages in both Korean, foreign languages to 'show respect' - The Korea Herald June 21, 2025
- Cops move court to unmask social media trolls targeting Telangana CM: Only 7 of 17 offensive posts taken - Times of India June 21, 2025
- 'Death threats to your family, to yourself' - Coco Gauff urges social media platforms to tackle online abuse after receiving horrific messages - Yardbarker June 21, 2025
- Nearly half of UK investors turn to social media for financial information - Financial Times June 21, 2025
- Student visa applicants urged to review social media posts, make accounts public - Yale Daily News June 21, 2025
- Trump administration to international student visa applicants: Switch your social media profiles to ‘public’ - Yahoo June 21, 2025
- Texas Longhorns Official Visit Weekend: Social Media Reaction from Austin - On3.com June 21, 2025
- Bill Belichick causes a stir on social media after being spotted sweating at the airport - MARCA June 21, 2025
- Kwantlen
- North Delta resident honoured with KPU alumni award - Surrey Now-Leader June 20, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU launches fast-track brewing and engineering programs - Education News Canada June 20, 2025
- 'Role model' Surrey man with Plan Your Space earns KPU young alumni award - Surrey Now-Leader June 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Indigenous lawyer honoured with Distinguished Alumni Award from KPU - Education News Canada June 12, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - '30-under-30' innovator to receive Outstanding Young Alumni Award - Education News Canada June 12, 2025
- Visual artist Brandon Gabriel designs paddles to represent five KPU campuses - Pancouver June 10, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New Indigenous artworks to be unveiled at KPU convocation ceremonies - Education News Canada June 10, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Dr. Bruce Choy appointed next KPU President and Vice-Chancellor - Education News Canada June 6, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Joan Didion
Farewell, nonpareil, with some tears. Your clarity shocked, delighted, and taught me.
More on rigour
Over at the Teaching and Learning Commons, my colleague Jennifer Hardwick places the concept of rigour in the context of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) : The Oxford English Dictionary defines “rigour” as “the fact of being careful and paying great … Continue reading
Heroines Revisited
I saw the first photographs from Lincoln Clarkes’ monumental series “Heroines” the day after his initial exhibition closed. That was the day I met Lincoln as well. The curator at Vancouver’s Helen Pitt Gallery hadn’t taken the show down yet, … Continue reading
Retraction Watch
A student recently alerted me to this splendid website and resource. It’s endlessly useful and interesting – a gift to researchers of all stripes, including students, teachers, scientists, and journalists. Some praise: “The seamier side of academia, lying, cheating and … Continue reading
Pedagogy
Rigour seems to mean two different practices: The thoroughgoing-ness of the curriculum (here rigour is expected of the professor in terms preparation *and delivery*) and the exactingness of assessment (where the onus is on the student, at the mercy of … Continue reading
Bryan Garner
I’ve put Bryan Garner’s website on our list of essential resources. Garner is a stratospherically erudite lexicographer, writer, and lawyer – and teacher.
Get smart
To welcome humbling moments is part of good mental hygiene. There is, at any rate, no way around these experiences when you teach social and digital media to university students. On that note: Here is another amazing Overdrive Interactive graphic; … Continue reading
The Melville School of Business
My academic neighbourhood at Kwantlen Polytechnic University has a new name, after philanthropists George and Sylvia Melville gifted $8 million to the school. I am so pleased, particularly with the initiatives this gift will fund. George Melville, cofounder of Boston … Continue reading
Smart luck
Teena Seelig, a professor in management science and engineering at Stanford, has been studying “luck” for two decades, according to Diana Aguilera’s article in Stanford Magazine. The professor provides some superb, lucid recommendations. My favourite: Show Appreciation. “When someone does … Continue reading
Gratitude
I have been enjoying getting to know the work of translator/poet/essayist Michael Hoffman. Without an active sense of mischief, he says, translators can easily become bitter people. “Nobody sees what you are doing, and the minute you do something, people … Continue reading