Universal Design for Learning- Edge Hill secures major funding to explore world class inclusive education project - InYourArea May 2, 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
- 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
- Education and AI
- St. Paul Education developing guiding principles with use of AI in classrooms - LakelandToday.ca May 2, 2025
- AI Isn’t the Answer To Our Education Crisis — It’s a Distraction - Crunchbase News May 2, 2025
- How to navigate the future of AI in education and education in AI - EY May 2, 2025
- President Trump Issues Executive Order to Support AI Education and Workforce Development - NatLawReview.com May 1, 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
- State pilot program exploring use of Artificial Intelligence in education - WTNH.com April 29, 2025
- Validation of a teaching model instrument for university education in Ecuador through an artificial intelligence algorithm - Frontiers April 29, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Donald Trump portrays himself on social media as the possible new Pope: "This would be my number one choice" - Marca.com May 3, 2025
- Trump's social media post targeting Harvard's tax-exempt status could create problems for the IRS - NBC News May 3, 2025
- Parties remain apart on social media rules for elections - The Japan Times May 3, 2025
- Backstage Update On Jeff Cobb Following His “Retirement” Post On Social Media - PWMania May 3, 2025
- 'Walking past my dog' challenge: Owners test pups' recognition skills, with mixed results - USA Today May 3, 2025
- Trump’s Truth Social posts make no sense – what do they say about his mentality? - The Guardian May 3, 2025
- Japan Parties Apart on Social Media Regulations over Elections - nippon.com May 3, 2025
- Trusted Indian Social Media Marketing Services at MSP Panel - The Tribune May 3, 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
Business Communications course ‘in a box’ – terrific resource
My colleagues at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been really rising to the occasion during the pandemic, in all ways. I’m especially impressed, as an editor, by how prolific and intelligent their publishing ventures have been. Here’s another super-helpful one. My … Continue reading
Flagging the #tags
It’s not just the photos available for viewing and sale by the Magnum Agency but how they are tagged: Magnum Photos, one of the world’s most celebrated photographic agencies, is to re-examine the content of its archive of more than … Continue reading
RIP Geoff Nunberg
I aspired to rise to the level of acumen, clarity, and courtesy of this marvelous linguist, knowing of course that I could never get close. Listen to some of Nunberg’s commentaries for NPR’s “Fresh Air” program. — 22 August: The … Continue reading
Editing for a civil society
Friend of No Contest Communications Chet Wisniewsiki, a principal research scientist at Sophos, woke me up with this short thread earlier this week:
On collaboration
Richard Rogers upon meeting Lorenz Hart for the first time: “I left Hart’s house having acquired in one afternoon a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritation.” Their song “My Funny Valentine” is something of a … Continue reading
The root of beauty …
… is boldness, wrote Pasternak. “That is what’s brought us to one another.” Apropos: After Wolfgang Pauli had given a colloquium on some ideas related to particle physics, Pauli said to Neils Bohr: “You will probably think that what I … Continue reading
“Business Writing for Everyone”
My summer 2020 first-year students will be getting their textbook for free – Business Writing for Everyone, put together by my colleague Arley Cruther’s. It’s a wonderful resource that will make my teaching better without a doubt. Arley’s “Adaptation Statement” … Continue reading
Journalism needs a better metaphor
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen writes that “exposure” is a “metaphor that increasingly misleads. I refer to the image of ‘exposure’ as a description of what the press does, should do, or isn’t doing well enough. To expose wrongdoing, incompetence, … Continue reading
A tonic
This is from a marvellous interview with Fran Lebowitz that’s in the New Yorker: I want to switch topics and ask you a bit about Toni Morrison. Everyone felt the loss of her, but largely as a literary icon or … Continue reading