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
- Teacher candidates’ abilities to develop universal design for learning and universal design for transition lesson plans - researchgate.net August 6, 2025
- (PDF) Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education - researchgate.net August 6, 2025
- Education and AI
- College students, educators worldwide begin fall semester using Elon’s Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence - Elon University August 21, 2025
- Joint Comment on the Secretary’s Supplemental Priority on Artificial Intelligence in Education - EdTrust 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
- Gavin Newsom isn't the Democrat we want. But he's the one we need against Trump. | Opinion - USA Today August 22, 2025
- U.S. Embassy in Venezuela Mocks Bounties for Regime Leaders On Social Media Post - Latin Times August 22, 2025
- Social Media Analytic Tools - Trend Hunter August 22, 2025
- Newsom vs. Trump: The social media showdown Democrats need - The Contrarian August 22, 2025
- Want the 'old internet' back? Nostalgia is fueling a new wave of apps - Business Insider August 22, 2025
- DEQ officials say Horizon 30 has ceased unpermitted mining, despite social media uproar - WLOS August 22, 2025
- DEQ officials say Horizon 30 has ceased unpermitted mining, despite social media uproar - WLOS August 22, 2025
- Memphis social media influencer dies at 28 - FOX13 Memphis August 22, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New partnership expands housing options for KPU students - Education News Canada August 21, 2025
- 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
Tag Archives: language
You complete the world.
It seems staggering that the brand new mayor of NYC, Eric Adams, could use the words “low skilled workers” to describe anyone who works in his city. I could walk for hours through Manhattan before seeing *anyone* whose work I … Continue reading
The root of beauty …
… is boldness, wrote Pasternak. “That is what’s brought us to one another.” Apropos: After Wolfgang Pauli had given a colloquium on some ideas related to particle physics, Pauli said to Neils Bohr: “You will probably think that what I … Continue reading
Abandoning One’s Mother Tongue
I had not thought this possible. A very poignant story via the great Language Log.
Real Words
One of the best pure writers I have ever seen was a psychology student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University named Emily (she gave me permission to use her first name). She could amalgamate and compress numerous, complex source articles into a … Continue reading
More on Clichés …
From professor Jonathan Mayhew: One of Orwell’s sillier pieces of writing advice is “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.” Orwell advises “scrapping of every word or idiom which … Continue reading
Clichés Used in Journalism
The Washington Post compiles a helpful list; it’s up to 200. I am guilty of using the following in speaking (and the first one listed here in writing, too – alas): Any “not-un” formulation (as in “not unsurprising that you’d … Continue reading
No Word
A friend in the media emailed me this morning: “Everyone keeps talking about hostages having been taken in Paris. Doesn’t the word ‘hostage’ imply a demand on the part of the terrorists? They made no demands; they intended all along … Continue reading
Ricotta / Ree-goat
In Fairport, New York, where I grew up, there were lots of Italian American families, and I had many Italian American friends (still do). I married an Italian American from Liverpool, New York, and have a son from this marriage … Continue reading
“Epic translation success”
Read more at the always alert, amusing, and erudite Language Log.
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On Poetry
My friend Jonathan Mayhew has been on a tear of late, publishing a series of manifestos on poetry in his wonderful blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks. Some snippets (but read the whole thing): Manifesto (1) Nobody knows what poetry is for. … Continue reading
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