Universal Design for Learning
- 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
- The TLC program: enhancing teaching and empowering educators - UM Today News May 6, 2025
- TILT Summer Conference to focus on engaging students through Universal Design for Learning - Colorado State University April 29, 2025
- CoSN 2025: Universal Design for Learning Applies to Tech, Too - GovTech April 21, 2025
Education and AI
- Meeder Advisory Services Launches Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education Program for Financial Advisors - PR Newswire July 10, 2025
- Saudi Arabia to introduce AI education at all grade levels starting this year - Arab News July 10, 2025
- Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education - The New York Times July 9, 2025
- Microsoft, OpenAI Partner With AFT to Train Teachers on AI - Education Week July 8, 2025
- Multi-stakeholder perspective on responsible artificial intelligence and acceptability in education - Nature July 8, 2025
- Artificial intelligence in STEM education: a transdisciplinary framework for engagement and innovation - Frontiers July 8, 2025
- Transformations in academic work and faculty perceptions of artificial intelligence in higher education - Frontiers July 6, 2025
- Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. - Truthout July 5, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Daisy Shah: Social Media Not Kind, Follow What Heart Says Instead Of Trends - Exclusive - Times Now July 13, 2025
- Surrey mayor pleads with social-media platforms to ban criminal content - Yahoo July 13, 2025
- Sacramento's historic Jim Denny's diner finds new home shortly after announcing closure - CBS News July 13, 2025
- Are you fluent in ‘Algospeak’? Social media has spawned its own vocabulary and syntax, and a new book argues that we should all pay attention - The Boston Globe July 13, 2025
- After firing at Kap's Cafe in Canada, Kapil Sharma breaks silence with his social media post - The Economic Times July 13, 2025
- Why I’m Not on Social Media—and Why I Don’t Miss It - Daily Kos July 13, 2025
- Teen ‘takeover’ trend hits Brentwood: 5 arrested at 300-person social media gathering - San Francisco Chronicle July 13, 2025
- Social Media Buzz: Notre Dame Adds Another Star to Its Secondary - Sports Illustrated July 13, 2025
Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU named home of Canada's first genomics Technology Access Centre - Education News Canada July 10, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New KPU partnership provides international students with extra support - Education News Canada July 9, 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
- North Delta resident honoured with KPU alumni award - Surrey Now-Leader June 20, 2025
- 'Role model' Surrey man with Plan Your Space earns KPU young alumni award - Surrey Now-Leader June 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - New Indigenous artworks to be unveiled at KPU convocation ceremonies - Education News Canada June 10, 2025
Tag Archives: Mentorship
Yelling at your editor
In earlier writing here on mentorship, I noted that you do not have to actually like your mentors to have a fruitful relationship with them. In one post, “Mentorship without Friendship,” I wrote: “A mentor sees in her or his … Continue reading
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“The Professional Culture of the Press”
NYU Journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen* writes that “Not in personal but in public life, 2019 has been the most bleak and depressing year I have lived through of my 63. A few tiny green shoots in a … Continue reading
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
A Generation of Mentors
It’s hard for me to re-read KPMG‘s October report “BC Junior Mining at a Crossroads,” commissioned by the BC Securities Commission, without feeling not just loss but what will be lost. The report’s findings echo the lamentations of my friends … Continue reading
A couple of final notes on mentoring
My posts below summarize and respond to the superb presentation given by Erin Dick at the International Association of Business Communicators World Conference in Manhattan last month. To be honest, I had intended on *missing* this presentation, believing there was little for me … Continue reading
Mentorship without Friendship
The relationship between a mentor and a mentee need not be a friendly one. During the discussion portion of Erin Dick’s IABC presentation on mentorship, I stood up and briefly described my own experience being mentored, as a writer and … Continue reading
5 Myths about Mentorship
In her IABC presentation Erin Dyck described four myths regarding mentorship: Mentorship is top-down. One’s placement in an organizational hierarchy does not, in fact, determine the kind of wisdom and experience one can give another colleague. Mentors should be from … Continue reading
Notes on Mentorship, I
Erin Dick gave a superb talk, and then led an illuminating discussion, on the topic of “mentorship” today, the last day of the IABC’s world conference. Inspired by the speaker and my discussion attendees, I will be posting on this topic … Continue reading