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
- Microsoft, OpenAI Partner With AFT to Train Teachers on AI - Education Week July 8, 2025
- Navigating the interplay between artificial intelligence, philosophy, education, and governance - Digital Watch Observatory July 8, 2025
- 'AI can be used for good': Broward public schools are set to 'embrace' artificial intelligence - WLRN July 8, 2025
- Transformations in academic work and faculty perceptions of artificial intelligence in higher education - Frontiers 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
- Artificial Intelligence in Education: Risks, Opportunities and What’s Next - The 74 June 11, 2025
- AI in schools and colleges: what you need to know - GOV.UK blogs June 10, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Wildlife in the times of social media - The Indian Express July 9, 2025
- “Very Very Good Decision by the Government”: NGO Suspensions Spark Growing Online Support in Burkina Faso - Tracking Aid Narratives on Social Media: Recent Observations from the Sahel (09 July 2025) - ReliefWeb July 9, 2025
- To study in the U.S. under Trump, international students scrub their accounts - The Washington Post July 9, 2025
- Are we all just working for Zuckerberg? - The Independent July 9, 2025
- Social Media Shopping: Overcoming the Trust Gap - Retail TouchPoints July 9, 2025
- Trump’s social media company strikes deal with friendly news outlet - The Washington Post July 9, 2025
- Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds - Phys.org July 9, 2025
- Live updates: Trump hosting African leaders at White House to explore commercial opportunities - The Washington Post 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
- 'Role model' Surrey man with Plan Your Space earns KPU young alumni award - Peace Arch News June 18, 2025
- KPU honours Deltan with 2025 Alumni Excellence Award - Delta Optimist June 18, 2025
Tag Archives: editing
Tracking Online News
My new favourite website is NewsDiffs.org, which tracks and archives changes made to online news articles over time. Currently it follows nytimes.com, cnn.com, politico.com, washingtonpost.com, and bbc.co.uk; no Canadian publications yet, alas. Click on the image to see how a … Continue reading
Writing and editing for the computer screen
Lawyer and language genius Bryan Garner over at LawProse.org spells out, in typically lucid fashion, how to compose documents when you know they will be read on a computer screen rather than on paper. 1.Summarize. It’s important to learn the … Continue reading
Foreign loanwords in transition: What should they look like?
You might be surprised how often this comes up for professional writers and editors. Bryan Garner, the ace lawyer & editor & language authority, explains: The more arcane or technical a loanword, the more likely it is to retain a … Continue reading
Needing Readers
In my classes, as well as in my career as a “communications guy,” I stress the requirement that all written pieces be read by one or several people prior to submission or publication. My friend, the scholar Jonathan Mayhew, has … Continue reading
Revision : Heterovision
I tell students and clients they shouldn’t take feedback on their work as personal critiques. “You are not the words on the paper on which your reports are printed.” This seems like a straight-forward point, but even seasoned editors tend to forget … Continue reading
“The Canadian Style”
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is the nation’s official publisher and our largest translation organization. It also publishes a wonderful online style guide and a collection of writing and editing tools that will handily assist students and teachers, authors … Continue reading
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Editing
You cannot edit yourself any more than you can tickle yourself, and for the same reasons, Diane Middlebrook once told me. Better writers understand this. *** Here are the 9 C’s I use as an editor of other writers’ work: 1. … Continue reading