Core Source #2: Teaching as a Design Science

April 5, 2018 / 0 comments

My statement onĀ 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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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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The hidden freedom to change

June 12, 2017 / 0 comments

The more experts I meet in education the clearer it get’s that there is freedom to change education, but teachers are shouting that there is a lack of freedom. What is happening with that freedom? I wrote a short ‘story’ to summarize my thoughts on this.. The hidden freedom to change   Policy makers are…

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Superbook for Superteachers?!

April 13, 2017 / 0 comments

This book is on my shelf since Dutch Design Week 2014. But when moving some books, this one popped out yesterday. Wouldn’t this be a great form to inspire others on a specific topic. I can imagine this working for education (teachers and students) as well. Hoe to design that amazing learning environment? It is…

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First try: SketchNote of Infographic Conference

March 6, 2017 / 0 comments

At friday march 3rd we, as students from the Master Design, visited the Infograpic Conference in Zeist. For every keynote and presentation we created sketchnotes, a way to collect your insights by creating little drawings instead of writing it all in text. I hereby present one of my sketchnotes on which I eleborated a little…

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Social Design

February 22, 2017 / 0 comments

As designer we are asked to shine (our) light upon the discussion about social design. In my practice as entrepreneur I use design daily to solve a various set of problems, also social issues. In 2015, for example, I participated inĀ a project for the municipality of Bussum. In this project Bussum transformed the social domain…

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