Mistakes in Education | Mission Education

Telling the (innovative) story with an overhead projector

February 19, 2018 / 0 comments

To set my storyline right, I tried drawing while talking to others about my research. I am not that amazing painter that amazes people with my sketches, but I discovered it worked very well. My drawing is like ‘on the back of a napkin’ as described by Dan Roam. And he was right: “There is…

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Core source #1: The Promise of the Maker Movement for Education

February 8, 2018 / 0 comments

My statement on Martin, L. (2015). The Promise of the Maker Movement for Education. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER), 5(1). https://doi.org/10.7771/2157-9288.1099 In the article “the promise of the Maker Movement for Education” author Lee Martin describes the opportunities of the Maker Movement for Education. According to the author Lee Martin, who is an associate…

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Expert Guided Ride #1

February 7, 2018 / 0 comments

Today I interviewed educational expert (/scientist) Jozefien Bos, core teacher educational science & research at the Rotterdam University of applied sciences. To get a better grip on the field of education I needed an expert who is familiar with working with teachers in secondary education. For this interview / conversation I developed a new method…

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Let’s FIX education

January 19, 2018 / 0 comments

Summary of my research (view presentation under this post) Context of education Society nowadays is changing rapidly. With the possibility to connect, learn, play and work worldwide the game of live is changed. Surprisingly, our education (the place where we get ready to enter society) is not changing in the same pace. Policy makers are…

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Workplan

December 18, 2017 / 0 comments

After my last post I conducted several discussions with peers, research professors and coaches on my workplan. I created a handout with my plans for the coming six months. I am hoping to contribute to several congresses and workshops next to these activities and interventions. I plan on doing the following interventions: Cultural Probe…

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Let’s get back on track!

November 20, 2017 / 0 comments

After a short period of time (pregnancy relief) I am restarting my research on education. Now as mother of two kids. During my relief I found some time to read about learning and watch some documentaires about this topic. There is a lot to be said. In this post I summarize some insights during this…

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Hidden Design

August 28, 2017 / 0 comments

This week we, as master students, followed an Hidden Design course at Afdeling Buitengewone Zaken. We learned to design a setting in which we are hidden as designer-researcher, but out in the open as human being in what kind necessary. In order to be able to design for a constantly changing society, we are in…

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Poster Essay & Conversation piece

August 21, 2017 / 0 comments

It is possible to carry and give birth to a child in 9 months. Delivering a poster and conversation piece about my research had some simularities with this proces. The past 9 months I have been working on my research on making in education, my mission to fix education from the inside. I have combined…

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Poster Essay proces

August 7, 2017 / 0 comments

My pregnancy relieve is coming in fast. Only 3 weeks left to finish my poster essay for the research day in september. With the sun in my back I am working on this assignment for 3 days a week (2 – 4 hours per day) in a period of 6 weeks. So far it got…

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Roll of mappings, semester 1

July 17, 2017 / 0 comments

During the first semester of my research I kept a diary of findings on a roll of paper. Next to my book of notes which is full of notes, drawings and questions this roll was a way for me to keep track of my ‘red line’. This roll wasn’t ment for sharing but after six…

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