Universal Design for Learning- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Day–April 11 - Virginia Tech March 13, 2025
- Universal Design for Learning - Trinity College March 4, 2025
- Designed in Michigan: Reawaken creativity at the Franciscan Life Processing Center - Rapid Growth February 27, 2025
- Universal design seeks to eliminate hurdles for all learners - Norfolk Daily News February 14, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Across Cultures: The Application of UDL in Kuwaiti Inclusive Classrooms - ResearchGate January 30, 2025
- SDCOE to Host Universal Design for Learning Design Jam to Make Learning Accessible for All - San Diego County Office of Education January 30, 2025
- Discover new teaching and learning journeys in 2025 - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Education and AI
- Artificial Intelligence in Education: Promise or Peril? - The Nation March 16, 2025
- AI Can Help Educators Avoid the Mistakes of the Past or Repeat Them - T.H.E. Journal March 13, 2025
- What Trump's Department of Education dismantle means for the future of AI in schools - CNBC March 13, 2025
- The Involvement of Artificial Intelligence in Education: How Smart Technology is Innovation Learning - Analytics Insight March 13, 2025
- International Forum of the Year of Digital Citizenship 2025 - UNESCO March 12, 2025
- China to Mandate AI Education in Schools, Starting with Elementary - Tempo.co English March 12, 2025
- Parents Need to Pay Attention to Artificial Intelligence, Too - Word In Black March 11, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Education Market is Forecasted to Reach US$ 20.88 Billion in 2029, Says Stratview Research - openPR March 11, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- LinkedIn Shares Insights into AI Adoption Among B2B Marketers - Social Media Today March 16, 2025
- James Spann claps back at social media ‘troll’ who downplayed Alabama storm’s impact - AL.com March 16, 2025
- Florida basketball are SEC champions! Social media reactions, postgame celebration after Tennessee win - Gainesville Sun March 16, 2025
- Social Media reacts to Oklahoma Sooners' sweep of Arkansas Razorbacks - Sooners Wire March 16, 2025
- Trump Wins Golf Tournament At Trump International Golf Club, Social Media Reacts: 'Cheating?' - Times Now March 16, 2025
- Russellville student in custody after making school threat online - WBKO March 16, 2025
- The LA-area wildfires in their rearview, LA Marathon runners get a boost from a social media maven - Los Angeles Daily News March 16, 2025
- JPMorgan Chase To Crack Down On Zelle Social Media Scams - CNET March 16, 2025
- Kwantlen
- B.C.’s Kwantlen university lays off 70 faculty due to $49 million revenue loss - CityNews Vancouver March 15, 2025
- KPU lays off 70 staff, citing drop in international student numbers - Surrey Now Leader March 14, 2025
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Kwantlen lays off 70 faculty members - Education News Canada March 14, 2025
- Kwantlen to lay off dozens of staff due to fewer foreign students - Vancouver Sun March 14, 2025
- Kwantlen to lay off dozens of staff due to fewer foreign students - MSN March 14, 2025
- B.C.'s Kwantlen university to lay off 70 faculty due to $49 million revenue loss - Rocky Mountain Outlook - Bow Valley News March 14, 2025
- B.C.‘s Kwantlen university to lay off 70 faculty due to $49 million revenue loss - St. Catharines Standard March 14, 2025
- BC university to lay off dozens of faculty members - Daily Hive March 13, 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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