Universal Design for Learning
- Teacher Connect - News | University Communication | Nebraska August 27, 2024
- Remove barriers with digital accessibility - News | University Communication | Nebraska August 27, 2024
- Workshop focuses on how inclusive teaching improves learning by design - Penn State University August 13, 2024
- UDL-Con: International 2024: A Groundbreaking Success With UDL Guidelines 3.0 Launch - Newswire August 7, 2024
- Tackling Universal Design for Learning To Make Teaching Easier - Newsela July 10, 2024
- Tackling complex learning needs: Charles Sturt empowers teachers to remain in the classroom - CSU News July 8, 2024
- Universal Design for Learning: Why it’s so powerful - District Administration July 8, 2024
- A Guide for Creating an Empathetic Learning Environment - Faculty Focus July 8, 2024
Education and AI
- Honoring the winning students in the Gulf Hackathon to employ artificial intelligence in education - ANI News September 12, 2024
- Honoring the winning students in the Gulf Hackathon to employ artificial intelligence in education - ThePrint September 12, 2024
- Conectado Partners with Hollister High School to Launch Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Education - Business Wire September 11, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence — Good or Bad for Education? - National Review September 11, 2024
- Should students ignore artificial intelligence as it shapes the future of global education? - The Financial Express September 11, 2024
- Artificial intelligence: Benefits of AI outweigh the risks in education, report finds - The Australian Financial Review September 10, 2024
- What you need to know about UNESCO's new AI competency frameworks for students and teachers - UNESCO September 5, 2024
- How Artificial Intelligence can help kids learn this school year - KING5.com September 5, 2024
Social Media Policy
- Attorneys general push for warning labels on social media apps - WMUR Manchester September 13, 2024
- Trump’s $2B decision: Former president vows to hold onto social media venture stock - POLITICO September 13, 2024
- Social Media Post Sheet - Horseracing Wrongs September 13, 2024
- Trump says he is not selling his shares of media company - Yahoo Finance September 13, 2024
- Lake View student arrested for social media post showing him with gun on campus - MyFoxZone.com KIDY September 13, 2024
- Additional law enforcement at Escambia County schools following social media threat - WEAR September 13, 2024
- Using Social Media For Good Or At Least Fun - Emptywheel September 13, 2024
- Trump media stock ‘DJT’ soars as he says he won’t sell when lockup period ends - MarketWatch September 13, 2024
Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Firefighters host cocktail social to raise funds for students who have overcome adversity - Education News Canada September 12, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU researchers uncover clues to problem plaguing horses - Education News Canada September 5, 2024
- Canada's 1st university degree in traditional Chinese medicine is coming, but some are wary - CBC.ca September 2, 2024
- VIDEO: Car club marks 40th anniversary in Langley - Aldergrove Star September 2, 2024
- Pedestrian struck, critically injured in Langley, B.C. - CTV News Vancouver August 30, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University conducts its own review of controversial payments - Peace Arch News August 23, 2024
- Langley university nursing field school took students to Guatemala - Aldergrove Star August 20, 2024
- VIDEO:Motors & music car show helps families of fallen officers - Aldergrove Star August 17, 2024
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
Raw Milk
Let’s not. The marvellous Talia Lavin discusses “the collapse of consensus reality.” I love how Lavin lets loose her scorn. Increased raw milk consumption has already led to a rise in foodborne illness—including stillbirths, miscarriages and deaths, albeit in very … Continue reading
“Storying Universal Design for Learning”
My Kwantlen Polytechnic University colleague Seanna Takacs, PhD, has coauthored “Storying Universal Design for Learning” (with coauathors Lilach Marom, Alex Vanderveen, and the late Arley Cruthers Mcneney). It is a terrific book that “compiles post-secondary student voices on accessible teaching … Continue reading
Preparing ourselves for November
Dr. Kate Starbird and her colleagues at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) have launched a Substack newsletter devoted to tracking rumours and misinformation concerning the upcoming United States Presidential election. This newsletter is part of the … Continue reading
“If you have any tips and tricks for evading censors, please contact us.”
This sentiment, published in The Economist by Gabriel Crossley, has made my Sunday. Crossley notes that in China VPNs (“software which makes it appear as if a computer or mobile phone is located in another country”) have been “getting slower” … Continue reading
Counter
I have had truly unpleasant interactions with people I’ve known for years – including with those in academia – during these Olympics. Their loathsome disdain for transgenderism made them attack a non-transgendered woman, a boxer from Algeria, in giddy displays … Continue reading
The speaking body
There has always been an oral-communication component in my upper-level business communications classes. I used to justify this to my students this way: In my own professional life, no matter how beautifully clear and researched the documents my clients pay … Continue reading
“Time is of the essence.”
This story is from the online news publication “Jolt: The Journal of Olympia, Lacey, and Tumwater” [in Washington State]: Starting Monday, June 17, Intercity Transit will cease posting rider alerts on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). This decision comes in response … Continue reading
ChatGPT and email
As a university prof, I both teach and, to some extent, accommodate AI platforms in the classroom. This has been a daunting, trying, and humbling experience that requires continual adjustment and correction. But there is no way around it. The … Continue reading