Universal Design for Learning
- Combat ‘zombie scrolling’ with engaged social media learning - Times Higher Education July 8, 2025
- Penn State offers workshop series on creating inclusive learning environments - Penn State University July 7, 2025
- (PDF) A scoping review of pre-service teachers’ beliefs about implementing the universal design for learning framework - researchgate.net July 4, 2025
- A scoping review of pre-service teachers’ beliefs about implementing the universal design for learning framework - Nature July 1, 2025
- Five lessons for scaling targeted instruction from implementation research in Ghana - Unicef May 21, 2025
- 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
- The TLC program: enhancing teaching and empowering educators - UM Today News May 6, 2025
Education and AI
- Navigating the interplay between artificial intelligence, philosophy, education, and governance - Digital Watch Observatory July 8, 2025
- Broward schools is welcoming artificial intelligence into its classrooms next school year - WLRN July 8, 2025
- Transformations in academic work and faculty perceptions of artificial intelligence in higher education - Frontiers July 6, 2025
- AI in Daily Life: What’s Next for 2025 and Beyond? - Vocal July 6, 2025
- How GenAI Is Reshaping AI Course Content - Vocal July 3, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Education: Transforming Learning for the Next Generation - Vocal June 30, 2025
- UTEP Launches Master’s in Education with Artificial Intelligence Focus - The University of Texas at El Paso June 11, 2025
- Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education - GOV.UK June 10, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Over half of people who have acted on social media financial advice have lost money - Finextra Research July 9, 2025
- Chiefs’ comments about Joe Burrow catch fire on social media - Bengals Wire July 9, 2025
- M4Markets Supercharges Social Media With Real Time Trading Intel - MSN July 9, 2025
- Social media rollbacks have caused ‘explosion of hate,’ says antisemitism watchdog - The Hindu July 9, 2025
- To study in the U.S. under Trump, international students scrub their accounts - The Washington Post July 9, 2025
- SD lawmaker removes ‘white boy summer’ social media post after criticism - Black Hills Pioneer July 9, 2025
- Daily Herald opinion: Mixed-up messaging: Another politician, another social media gaffe - Daily Herald July 9, 2025
- Nucleus: Advisers don’t like finfluencers but need to use social media - Citywire July 9, 2025
Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New KPU partnership provides international students with extra support - Education News Canada July 9, 2025
- Researchers discover new drug-resistant parasitic worm in West Africa - Peace Arch News July 3, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New drug-resistant parasitic worm discovered in West Africa - Education News Canada July 3, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU journalism class partners with Black Press Media to investigate disaster preparedness in B.C. - Education News Canada June 26, 2025
- Drone show returns for Canada Day in Langley - Langley Advance Times June 24, 2025
- Langley-based university fasttracks learning for brewing, engineering programs - Aldergrove Star June 22, 2025
- KPU honours Deltan with 2025 Alumni Excellence Award - Delta Optimist June 18, 2025
- 'Role model' Surrey man with Plan Your Space earns KPU young alumni award - Peace Arch News June 18, 2025
Tag Archives: editing
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An example of editing.
Yelling at your editor
In earlier writing here on mentorship, I noted that you do not have to actually like your mentors to have a fruitful relationship with them. In one post, “Mentorship without Friendship,” I wrote: “A mentor sees in her or his … Continue reading
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Prime Yourself
There needs to be two of you: you and “you prime.” The latter is an heuristic entity brought into being by you for the purpose of protecting and orienting you. Your “you prime” makes the hard decisions – saying no to … 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
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:
Happy to help
Twice in the last week I have helped to prevent a calamity from befalling a colleague. One colleague was irritated and the other was infuriated to receive my editorial help, though they each requested it. Both will come out “smelling … Continue reading
Editors are there for you.
This note appears in Seymour Hersh’s Reporter: A Memoir. The last seven words are utterly splendid. Here is a congenial interview with Hersh by Christian Lorentzen.
Editing and Gender
The New York Times obituary of famed film editor Anne V. Coates is very charming. Ms. Coates vowed to find a way to make a career in cinema. She would need to overcome not only her family’s resistance but also … Continue reading
More on editing
In an early NoContest.CA post on editing, I described “the 9 C’s” I use when evaluating another writer’s work: completeness conciseness clarity convincingness currency correctness consistency congruency courtesy I added: Almost all writers need a second set of eyes to assess … Continue reading
Self-revision
It is hard to edit one’s own work into its final version; you always need a second pair of eyes. One can, though, review and recast one’s work using intelligent techniques. My former mentor NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen mentions two … Continue reading