Dreamschool
About project Dreamschool

Talking education in 2020 at HAN future lunch

In recent months, HAN University of Applied Sciences worked hard on the draft text of the ‘HAN Strategic Plan 2012-2016′. In the week from 6 to 9 February, students and staff participate in a future lunch. At lunch there are a number of inspiring and stimulating readmore

LED there be light

Yes, Stad&Esch will be moving to a brand new location in two years. But that’s no reason not to be proud of the movement that is taking place to become one as a group of people, the four locations before moving there in two years. So we decided to make the most advanced, yet acceptable readmore

Little green & blue & purple & pink & orange & yellow & beige & grey & red Stad & Esch bags

For the open day, we created these cool fashionable put cotton bags. To carry as a tote or over your shoulder. It will also carry a 15″ laptop. In our aim to create something that lasts, we designed it to be distinct, not as another logo carrier. We thought it would be cool to connect readmore

An update on Project Dreamschool at LIFT12

It makes me happy to share that I will be speaking at LIFT12 in Geneva. I will do an update on what has happened since my talk there last year. LIFT is a truly great event loaded with high quality inspiration, if you have readmore

John Moravec visits Stad&Esch

Working for Stad & Esch, making it the best school for the Netherlands, and maybe even the world, continues to be the best possible fun. On April 29, 2010, we had our first meeting gathering a group of people to help Stad & Esch with this goal. That meeting gave birth to Project Dreamschool. We readmore

Als je niet weet dat een bepaald beroep bestaat, hoe weet je dan hoe je ’t kunt worden?

Als je niet weet dat een bepaald beroep bestaat, hoe weet je dan hoe je ’t kunt worden? Of wat je nodig hebt om het worden?

Daarom interviewen we mensen met allerlei verschillende banen. Misschien helpen hun verhalen jou om te kiezen en om te praten readmore

Speaking at Trendsfactory

Looking forward to be speaking at Trendsfactory in January. I will be sharing things we’ve learned from working with and for schools, and how you can apply them in other territories. Will be fun!

Start conversations

Sometimes learning occasions are so close by you don’t even see them. I sit in trains a lot. Because I live far away from where the questions I work on are asked. And I like trains, have been writing and telling about that frequently. I like readmore

Get rid of business cards

The good thing of a business card is it gives you all practical information from a person who you just met, related to his job. Handy and concise. What you learn about that person is largely depending on the talent of that company to find a readmore

Flexwork

Flexwork is a new idea on how to work together. Not flex working as in knowmadding around, but a way of using people for what they can do best in their talent. Imagine you get an assignment. That assignment has a bundle of restrictions — a fixed readmore

Pay it forward

Maybe you remember the movie about a small boy who start a movement to do good by something he calls pay it forward. In the movie, the young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother’s alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies readmore

Internshops

Theory is good, but not when you can put it into practice years later and find out that your knowledge is not knowledgy but knowlagged. An more agile approach to learning helps in better understanding what is being learned. Agile is a term introduced in 2001 and is now mostly used in software development. Like readmore

Do Disclose Agreement®

All crucial innovation projects are stealth: they are there, but you don’t see them. However, they will affect you when they’re done. Most of these trajectories are carefully protected behind agreements, the so called ‘Non Disclosure Agreements’ where all parties involved solemnly swear not to share anything involved with the project. And that way, a readmore

VAS — Value added to Schools

Already described earlier as Value Added to Society, but rewritten because of TEDxDelft.

We all want to help, but ‘how’ is mostly an issue. That’s why we like to introduce:

VAS, Value Added to Schools

VAT (Value Added Tax) we all know: it helps the great community you are part of with everything we need in order readmore

TEDxDelft

Yesterday I had the opportunity to do a talk at TEDxDelft, a first in Delft, at the TU Delft. It was a highly electric day, from orbiting weather balloons to astronauts to brilliant books, from fast cars to a high tech opera preview. In my 12 minutes (+8 seconds, oops) I shared 9 readmore

Mexico, unexpecting the unexpected

Already a couple of days ago, but it feels like yesterday. And it was only a week, but felt like a month. My trip to Mexico was quite intense. A week, but with tons of things to visit, people to meet and places to talk. I readmore

Talking Dreamschool at Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de Mexico

Today I had my final talk at Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, also known as Ibero, kindly hosted by Social Media Club Mexico. Even more great people and nice food. Thanks for having me!

Zona Maco Art Fair 2011, keep on dreaming

Zona Maco Art Fair 2011, is the most important art fair of Mexico. The Urban Genome Project is an archive of interviews designed by the publisher Joseph Grima, the artist Pedro Reyes and creative collective Pase Usted. To date this file has gathered more than 500 interviews with mayors, architects, activists and various readmore

Making the future happen today at Telmex initiatives, for free!

Today I had the opportunity to visit the initiatives Carlos Slim Foundation is undertaking. Carlos Slim is one of the world’s most important philanthropists and most people have never heard about his humanitarian activities. He owns stock in more than 200 companies that employ more than 200,000 people in Latin America and beyond. readmore

Informal talk and visit to Instituto Docet

This morning Eva took me to Instituto Docet, a paradise for kids from 1 to 3 years old in Monterrey. What an amazing place to be. Kids learning by playing, growing plants, playing music, listening to music, covering all senses. The team is truly passionate about what they are doing there since only readmore

Informal talk at Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey

Pablo Collada, director and founder of Camino Ciudadano — a company dedicated to establish links between Civil Society Organizations, Private Sector and young people, in order to generate new responsible citizens, and I had the privilege to do an informal talk at Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey. And met again a bunch of great people. readmore

Visiting CEDIM, Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseno de Monterrey

Just returned from a visit to CEDIM, an applied design school in Monterrey. And I can only say that I was truly amazed. Housed in a brand new contemporary building in the valley, you will find a great active atmosphere. You could feel the activity happening, even though it was quite a quiet readmore

Frontpage news!

Great to wake up in the morning and at breakfast find out that you’re on the cover of a newspaper… Actually, Eva siad: “Hey, did you know you are on the cover of the newspaper?” Uhm, no. So she walked away and got one. Totally awesome! Although I feel that obviously the kids of Campamento readmore

Marcel Kampman en @SMCMXEducación en la Ibero

Ya que estamos en los aniversarios, nuestro grupo educativo cumple su primer año y lo vamos a festejar con una sesión educativa de lujo: Marcel Kampman (@happykamping) quien es líder del proyecto Dream School que está haciendo grandes aportaciones al sistema educativo Holandés y nos hablará readmore