Universal Design for Learning- Building a Course from Scratch: When Time is Not on Your Side - Faculty Focus August 20, 2025
- Stop placing the onus on neurodivergent students to ‘fit in’ - Times Higher Education August 14, 2025
- Building self-competence in health education - University of Delaware August 12, 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
- (PDF) Accessible by Design: Applying UDL Principles in a First Year Undergraduate Course - researchgate.net August 6, 2025
- (PDF) Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education - researchgate.net August 6, 2025
- Teacher candidates’ abilities to develop universal design for learning and universal design for transition lesson plans - researchgate.net August 6, 2025
- Education and AI
- Integrating artificial intelligence into medical education: a narrative systematic review of current applications, challenges, and future directions - BMC Medical Education August 23, 2025
- College students, educators worldwide begin fall semester using Elon’s Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence - Elon University August 21, 2025
- The Future of AI: How AI Is Changing the World - Built In August 21, 2025
- The Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education - Vocal August 19, 2025
- The future of artificial intelligence in education - WBTV August 19, 2025
- An AI divide is growing in schools. This camp wants to level the playing field - NPR August 19, 2025
- 30 Artificial Intelligence Project Ideas in 2025 [Trending] - Simplilearn.com August 19, 2025
- Artificial intelligence goes to school - Asia News Network August 19, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- PINS vs META: Which Social Media Stock is a Smart Investment Now? - AInvest August 23, 2025
- Pakistani students in US face uncertainty as government reviews anti-American content on social media - The New Indian Express August 23, 2025
- Seymour: Social media glamorizes the roommate connection - The Rocky Mountain Collegian August 23, 2025
- Animals Blown Up With Fireworks In Pennsylvania, Videos Posted On Social Media: Police - AOL.com August 23, 2025
- There is a global trend of social media companies reducing their use of human fact-checkers and turning to AI instead. - IslanderNews.com August 23, 2025
- ‘Social media is a great platform, even a therapy sometimes’: Sunny Hinduja - sentinelassam.com August 23, 2025
- Dog play dates | Boy gets doggone surprise after mom posts his love for golden retrievers on social media post in North Carolina - ABC11 August 23, 2025
- Local barbershop goes viral on social media - SiouxlandProud August 23, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU Associate Dean creates free soccer program for refugee youth - Education News Canada August 13, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Prisoners can get free support through a student-operated helpline - Education News Canada August 12, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU board of governors appoints Erin Barnes as new chair - Education News Canada August 5, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU officially launches its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan - Education News Canada August 5, 2025
- Dive into music this summer: KPU offers camps for all ages - Surrey Now-Leader July 31, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - 'I was in disbelief': KPU instructor collaborates with Peter Gabriel on music video - Education News Canada July 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU named home of Canada's first genomics Technology Access Centre - Education News Canada July 10, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New KPU partnership provides international students with extra support - Education News Canada July 9, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
New at No Contest
We have added two news-feeds, for Artificial Intelligence and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), to go with our feeds on Social Media Policy and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and we’ve significantly expanded our resources list at the top of the page. … Continue reading
Phonics and the State of the Union
Our friend Jonathan Mayhew has been wondering whether the “balanced literacy” approach to teaching reading has neglected fundamental ways the brain apprehends and organizes sound itself, to the detriment of a generation or more of young would-be readers. Professors of … Continue reading
“Pre-Planned Feelings”
We have discussed our friend Clarissa‘s opinions on American academia and other topics in the past. She is an Hispanic Studies professor at a midwestern public university whose blog is always vividly written (and is contentious by design, I would … Continue reading
“Overlords at the Easel”
The brilliant, prolific, and combative political cartoonist Ted Rall has been spreading warnings about the ways AI can and will rob artists of rights to – and earnings from – their work. This week: As a cartoonist of the early … Continue reading
Merry Xmas!
From the great Bryan Garner: You can buy the new, 5th edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage here.
This can go a long way
This semester I asked a student of mine who’s in my university’s HR program whether human resources professionals needed to actually like people. (I wish I remember why I asked!) She told me nobody had ever asked her that question … Continue reading
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I will never get used to the term “anti-woke.”
Anniversary
This month we begin the eleventh year of No Contest Communications. Tierney set the tone and the theme with her inaugural posts. I especially like “On Being Forgiven.”
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Apropos The Georgia Straight
Dan Savage was not exaggerating the problems faced by alt-weeklies in recent years. From The Tyee last week: The crew at the Georgia Straight wrote until the bitter end, filing stories and chronicling Vancouver’s culture after the paycheques stopped flowing … Continue reading
Savage Love
The prose of Dan Savage is bold and crystal clear – and edifying to a profound degree. It always has been. I started reading his column in the San Francisco’s alt-weekly back in the early 90s and kept up that … Continue reading