Mission Education | my mission to change education (from the inside)

Demo on Fablearn Europe Conference

June 19, 2018 / 0 comments

I am honored that I could be a part of the third Fablearn Europe conference. FABLEARN EUROPE DIGITAL FABRICATION FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION design – build – make – learn www.fablearn.eu June 18 2018 NTNU, Trondheim, Norway [Download my paper here] I was part of the Demo & Poster session of the conference. But because…

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The tree of mistakes

June 19, 2018 / 0 comments

Yesterday, at the Fablearn Conference in Trondheim, I got in touch Johannes Fibiger (not the Nobel prize winner..) from Denmark. He introduced me to Fablab Silkeborg were they have a physical failure tree. All mistakes are shown here to help others learn from these mistakes. It is like an expo for failures. How great! It illustrates the role of…

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Learning through learning: Making a shutter with reused wood

June 12, 2018 / 0 comments

To gain more insights on learning I decided to learn some new things myself, as a form of action research. I defined two new tasks: working with wood and working with metal. (I choose very physical challenges to stay close to my case in maker education) I noted all my mistakes along the way and…

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The forced learning through mistakes: writing an abstract for the RTD conference

June 10, 2018 / 0 comments

My research is getting more and more merged with my activities as professional. And that is lovely. But it is also bringing me new (and sometimes ugly) tasks. In my inbox, I received the call for proposals for the Research through design conference 2019. And yes, that would be a great place to share my findings….

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English (international) probe

May 18, 2018 / 0 comments

Created for the Fablearn conference where I will try to find 16 people to join the probe all over Europe. (18th June, Trondheim. Demo stand)

Demo accepted on Fablearn 2018

April 23, 2018 / 0 comments

Hooray! I am getting the opportunity to share my work with peers at the Fablearn conference 2018 in Trondheim. Titled: “Hey teachers, find your inner designer – stimulating reflection with a cultural probe approach” When the proceedings are online I can share my contribution on this platform as well. To be continued! Posters and Demos

Core Source #2: Teaching as a Design Science

April 5, 2018 / 0 comments

My statement on Laurillard, D. (2012). Teaching as a Design Science (3rd Revised ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the London Knowledge Lab, describes several pedagogical patterns for learning what makes it possible to teach in a world of diverse learners and messy realities. Her work is creating…

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Landscape of Education Session #2

March 29, 2018 / 0 comments

At the Maakplaats conference, I was invited to host two workshop sessions. This gave me the opportunity to create the landscape of education not only with teachers but also with designers, makers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. [results are still under construction]

Guided ride #4 Arjan van der Meij

March 27, 2018 / 0 comments

Hotshot in the world of MakerEducation is Arjan van der Meij, although he does not prefer this introduction. Arjan is one of the first teachers who started with MakerEducation in the Netherlands. He is now already 15 years (!) active with making in all sorts of ways in education. Thanks to the test week at…

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Landscape of Education Session #1

March 14, 2018 / 0 comments

Last week I organised the first group intervention on my trail ‘Landscape of Education’. I planned for 8 teachers to join the session, eventually 21 teachers joined. That made me change the (game)plan into a big group session. Instead of room for discussion and questions, there was more one-on-one time between participants, but less interaction…

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