Universal Design for Learning- Teacher Connect - News | University Communication | Nebraska August 27, 2024
- Remove barriers with digital accessibility - News | University Communication | Nebraska August 27, 2024
- Workshop focuses on how inclusive teaching improves learning by design - Penn State University August 13, 2024
- UDL-Con: International 2024: A Groundbreaking Success With UDL Guidelines 3.0 Launch - Newswire August 7, 2024
- Tackling Universal Design for Learning To Make Teaching Easier - Newsela July 10, 2024
- Tackling complex learning needs: Charles Sturt empowers teachers to remain in the classroom - CSU News July 8, 2024
- Universal Design for Learning: Why it’s so powerful - District Administration July 8, 2024
- A Guide for Creating an Empathetic Learning Environment - Faculty Focus July 8, 2024
- Education and AI
- Honoring the winning students in the Gulf Hackathon to employ artificial intelligence in education - ANI News September 12, 2024
- Honoring the winning students in the Gulf Hackathon to employ artificial intelligence in education - ThePrint September 12, 2024
- Conectado Partners with Hollister High School to Launch Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Education - Business Wire September 11, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence — Good or Bad for Education? - National Review September 11, 2024
- Should students ignore artificial intelligence as it shapes the future of global education? - The Financial Express September 11, 2024
- Artificial intelligence: Benefits of AI outweigh the risks in education, report finds - The Australian Financial Review September 10, 2024
- What you need to know about UNESCO's new AI competency frameworks for students and teachers - UNESCO September 5, 2024
- How Artificial Intelligence can help kids learn this school year - KING5.com September 5, 2024
- Social Media Policy
- Attorneys general push for warning labels on social media apps - WMUR Manchester September 13, 2024
- Trump’s $2B decision: Former president vows to hold onto social media venture stock - POLITICO September 13, 2024
- Social Media Post Sheet - Horseracing Wrongs September 13, 2024
- Trump says he is not selling his shares of media company - Yahoo Finance September 13, 2024
- Lake View student arrested for social media post showing him with gun on campus - MyFoxZone.com KIDY September 13, 2024
- Additional law enforcement at Escambia County schools following social media threat - WEAR September 13, 2024
- Using Social Media For Good Or At Least Fun - Emptywheel September 13, 2024
- Trump media stock ‘DJT’ soars as he says he won’t sell when lockup period ends - MarketWatch September 13, 2024
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Firefighters host cocktail social to raise funds for students who have overcome adversity - Education News Canada September 12, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU researchers uncover clues to problem plaguing horses - Education News Canada September 5, 2024
- Canada's 1st university degree in traditional Chinese medicine is coming, but some are wary - CBC.ca September 2, 2024
- VIDEO: Car club marks 40th anniversary in Langley - Aldergrove Star September 2, 2024
- Pedestrian struck, critically injured in Langley, B.C. - CTV News Vancouver August 30, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University conducts its own review of controversial payments - Peace Arch News August 23, 2024
- Langley university nursing field school took students to Guatemala - Aldergrove Star August 20, 2024
- VIDEO:Motors & music car show helps families of fallen officers - Aldergrove Star August 17, 2024
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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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Looking for new colleagues
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a vibrant and splendid place to work. My own department – Applied Communications (in the Melville School of Business) – is looking for two new instructors. We’re a good crowd. Apply here.
Silly professor
It is puzzling, perhaps, when the paper of record publishes a piece arguing that it’s a waste of money and time providing and receiving education in schools.
Stanford University’s “Writing Matters”
My former haunt, Stanford University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful “Writing Matters” series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing “writing’s connection with academic … Continue reading
Not included.
Sometimes you have to read a story two or three times to make sure you’re reading it right. As in: A PhD candidate is hoping the University of Alberta changes its practice on publishing theses after hers was rejected for spelling her [Urdu] … Continue reading
More on rigour
Over at the Teaching and Learning Commons, my colleague Jennifer Hardwick places the concept of rigour in the context of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) : The Oxford English Dictionary defines “rigour” as “the fact of being careful and paying great … Continue reading
Pedagogy
Rigour seems to mean two different practices: The thoroughgoing-ness of the curriculum (here rigour is expected of the professor in terms preparation *and delivery*) and the exactingness of assessment (where the onus is on the student, at the mercy of … Continue reading
Get smart
To welcome humbling moments is part of good mental hygiene. There is, at any rate, no way around these experiences when you teach social and digital media to university students. On that note: Here is another amazing Overdrive Interactive graphic; … Continue reading
The Melville School of Business
My academic neighbourhood at Kwantlen Polytechnic University has a new name, after philanthropists George and Sylvia Melville gifted $8 million to the school. I am so pleased, particularly with the initiatives this gift will fund. George Melville, cofounder of Boston … Continue reading