Universal Design for Learning- Edge Hill secures major funding to explore world class inclusive education project - InYourArea May 2, 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
- How to integrate essential Universal Design for Learning principles - TrainingZone April 1, 2025
- Education and AI
- How to navigate the future of AI in education and education in AI - EY May 2, 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
- State pilot program exploring use of Artificial Intelligence in education - WTNH.com April 29, 2025
- Executive Order Issued Calling for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth - Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo April 28, 2025
- Workshop on Legal Aspects of the Use of Artificial Intelligence Held in Bishkek - UNESCO April 28, 2025
- AI in education: Balancing promises and pitfalls - AI News April 28, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Utah Hockey Club officials quiet on Mammoth nickname after social media leak - USA Today May 2, 2025
- Timothee Chalamet Is Not on Kylie Jenner’s Social Media for a Reason, ‘Insider’ Says - Reality Tea May 2, 2025
- Social media must use age verification to protect kids from porn starting July - The Christian Institute May 2, 2025
- Chinese economy and the power of social media on fruit sales - FreshFruitPortal.com May 2, 2025
- ‘72-hour rule’: Debt investors take fright at Donald Trump’s social media deluge - The Economic Times May 2, 2025
- Schools, Mental Health Professionals Call For More Parent Involvement with Social Media - Grady Newsource May 2, 2025
- Is Social Media Distorting Our Faces? Surge In Snapchat Dysmorphia Raises Red Flags For Doctors - Times Now May 2, 2025
- Travis Kelce’s likely social media move for Taylor Swift causes panic and raises eyebrows about his ties - Times of India May 2, 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
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
How to write
I love my old friend Jonathan Mayhew’s prose. His blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks (Scholarly Writing and How to Get it Done), is often very charming (and it is always illuminating). Read this bit on the use of “scare quotes.” The … Continue reading
Feedback loops
The original focus of University of Washington’s Professor Kate Starbird’s research was Crisis Informatics, “the study of how information-communication technologies are used during crisis events, including natural disasters (like earthquakes and hurricanes) and man-made disasters (such as shooting events and … Continue reading
Our Work Is Everywhere
Portland, Oregon artist Syan Rose’s book ‘Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance,’ is breath-taking and profound. I went through it slowly over the course of three days, letting these voices and insights try … Continue reading
I wish I had written this.
Back in the day a journalist for the Norfolk Pilot newspaper got his copy back from his editor with this note: “Sorry it’s so short but a certain amount of muck, spleen, libel, hogwash, garbage, neologism, prurience, presumption, assumption, half-assumption, … Continue reading
design + ways
My Kwantlen colleague Arley Cruther‘s essay “An Incomplete History of My Teaching Body” is breathtaking, beautiful and profound. Just published in a collection called “Voices of Practice: Narrative Scholarship from the Margin,” Arley’s piece starts this way: My summer pandemic … Continue reading
It will be so good to get back in the classroom.
I will not be able to hide my tears.
When in doubt …
… draw a distinction, says Jay Rosen.
J. Hillis Miller
Professor Miller was a genial man whose ardent advocacy of the “deconstruction” movement in literary and cultural criticism was notable for his uncommonly graceful prose style. His early book “Poets of Reality” was a revelation to me my first year … Continue reading
You got to dance with who brung you
A year or two ago a colleague who teaches business classes at my university suggested allowing students – whose term projects focused on opportunities in nations where English was not the predominant tongue – prepare their final reports/portfolios/presentations in Cantonese, … Continue reading
The mess of thinking
Inaccurate interpretations of a particular data-point can nonetheless provide metaphors that describe a lot.