Universal Design for Learning
- Edge Hill secures major research funding to explore world-class inclusive education project - Educate magazine April 29, 2025
- Universal Design For Learning Workshop - UNL | Events April 23, 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
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning for Children with ADHD - ResearchGate April 15, 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
Education and AI
- State pilot program exploring use of Artificial Intelligence in education - WTNH.com April 29, 2025
- Executive Order Issued Calling for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth - Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo April 28, 2025
- Workshop on Legal Aspects of the Use of Artificial Intelligence Held in Bishkek - UNESCO April 28, 2025
- AI in education: Balancing promises and pitfalls - AI News April 28, 2025
- Trump admin. seeks to improve American education through Artificial Intelligence - Christian Post April 25, 2025
- Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth (Trump EO Tracker) - JD Supra April 25, 2025
- Is Agentic AI Coming to K-12 Education? - Education Week April 25, 2025
- Trump Wants Teachers Trained How to Use AI. Will It Work? - Education Week April 24, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Attorney General Steve Marshall Sues Social Media Giant, TikTok, for Deceptive Claims about Youth Safety - WVAS April 30, 2025
- Social media brand safety in 2025: A new era in content moderation - eMarketer April 30, 2025
- Senator Lindsey Graham Sparks Backlash With Social Media Post About Trump Becoming Pope - ChurchLeaders April 30, 2025
- ‘Embarrassed’ Maple Leafs fan burns jersey, others roast team on social media after Game 5 loss - Yahoo News Canada April 30, 2025
- Dr. Mary Talley Bowden’s Social Media Activity Faces Review In Hearing - Dallas Express April 30, 2025
- As Seen On Social Media: Austin Butler’s perfect white shirt and City sneakers, London edition - Lainey Gossip April 30, 2025
- Utah Hockey Club's New Team Name Officially Leaked by Careless Social Media Manager - Yardbarker April 30, 2025
- Fyre Festival Designer Discusses Scammers on Social Media - EDMTunes April 30, 2025
Kwantlen
- 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 Canada April 17, 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
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - The Abbotsford News April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Aldergrove Star April 1, 2025
Tag Archives: for educators
Transformative learning and student autonomy
No Contest co-founder Tierney Wisniewski has written a beautifully conceived and composed Master’s Thesis. Here’s the abstract. [I’ve added some paragraphing for ease of online reading, because abstracts by requirement are very, very fat.] Self-determination theory (SDT) is a well-established theory … Continue reading
No plagiarism foul
A super-smart student in my Advanced Professional Communications class asked me whether using an app that generates a citation for you in proper APA, MLA, Chicago style was plagiarism. My first thought was “I doubt it,” but in my line … Continue reading
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The Bad Mess at Evergreen
The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has earned its renown as an experimental – indeed avant-garde – institution; its ‘progressive’ bona-fides have been warranted as well. Back in the day, I explored the possibility of taking a faculty position in … Continue reading
News Literacy 2017 – a guide
With several of his graduate students NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen has just published the second annual “What’s Changing in Journalism” guide, which “depicts trends that are influencing the business now, and are still new enough that even experienced journalists may not … Continue reading
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Come to Canada
In a tart post this morning Atrios notes that he would be shocked if foreign enrollment in [American] colleges and universities wasn’t down 10%+ next year (I completely made up that figure, of course, but you get the idea) even if … Continue reading
Where are the experts on *who we are*, in the social sciences, or in the arts, … anywhere?
Over at Research as a Second Language: Writing, Representation, and the Crisis of Social Science, Danish writer Thomas Basbøll does not view this question as an academic one. Neither would he give “both” as his answer. In his stirring dissection of the United … Continue reading
Elitism in the classroom
Professor Mayhew’s recent take on the topic: Teaching is transactional. The instructor is not feeding information to the students, teaching them that information, but interacting with them. A third element is the text in the class. The text is not … Continue reading
Hence, teaching manners matters
In a blog post this morning called “A Raging Snowflake,” my good friend Clarissa writes: Remember the Oppressed Tiffany, a very special snowflake whose “narrative was erased by the entire field of academia” when a hapless prof asked her to … Continue reading
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Brainstorming
Even when participants are not being paid by the hour, meetings are costly: Notwithstanding smart-phones, no one around the table is really doing something else, at least not with an undivided focus. A poorly planned or run meeting wastes everybody’s time, … Continue reading
First Draft News
FirstDraftNews.com is a beautiful and wide-ranging resource created for journalists “who source and report stories from social media.” What is the best way to search for eyewitness media when a story breaks? What are the most efficient and effective ways to … Continue reading