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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Guided Ride #3 Tom van Doveren

March 7, 2018 / 0 comments

To gain more insights on teachers making mistakes I try to find teachers who are active in maker education. In Rotterdam, Tom is one of the makers of/in education. A few years back he started HET LAB, a social enterprise which helps kids to learn through making. Tom is one of the organizers of a…

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Iteration #6: Participants

February 23, 2018 / 0 comments

Today we had the opportunity to extract knowledge from an anthropologist. I used this opportunity to reflect on my probe I like to do with teachers. I printed out all pages from the probe to collect feedback from my peers and teachers (including an expert, this time an anthropologist) Downloads: Version 1.1 Version 2 I…

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New probe: teachers making mistakes v1

February 20, 2018 / 0 comments

I want to know what teachers see as mistakes and what they do with them. Therefore I design a new probe: redesigned from the one I did with makers. In earlier interventions I discovered that asking for mistakes is not opening up the conversation with teachers. (This is different than my experience with makers). In…

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