Dreamschool
About project Dreamschool

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

Dreamschool in Mexico

LIFT was awesome. Led to a load of new contacts, quite impressive. Just after my talk, I had the mic removed and because the next speaker was already up, I found a place on the stairs, not wanting to interfere the audience too much. readmore

Yoomee joins Dreamschool

One of the highlights of LIFT was looking at particles at the HLC in Geneva. And doing that together with Andy Mayer, who what I learned while having a fun conversation in the bus, was the founder of Yoomee. So, what is Yoomee?

They’re different readmore

dodisclose.org, identity

Identity for the dodisclose.org project, an initiative to open up information.

The Dream Gap

How do you know that you don’t like the taste of oranges if you never tried one? Or if you didn’t even know that oranges existed?

When you enter the world, you have a theoretical full potential to learn anything. In the Netherlands the first 22 years of your life are devoted to learning. The first readmore

Value Added to Society

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

VAS, Value Added to Society

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

LIFT’11 talk now as fancy two-screen video

LIFT made all the talks available as fancy two-screen presentations. So now you can decide to watch only the videos, or watch the slides of both at once. Nice.

LIFT’11

Just returned from a mind blowing edition of LIFT in Geneva. It was a privilege to have been invited as a speaker to share the Project Dreamschool story there. And because of that, I met amazing people. If you have never been to LIFT, you should go the next edition. I shared the readmore

TEDxYouth Dreamschool workshop

TEDxYouth was te gek! Geweldig om zoveel jonge gedreven mensen tegen te komen. Bij de Project Dreamschool workshop waren 17 van hen van de partij, met als missie bij te dragen aan het vormen van beter onderwijs door te werken aan statements voor de minister van Onderwijs. Deze zijn allemaal op camera vastgelegd en worden readmore

TEDxYouth Workshop

Ideas Worth Doing zijn er om uitgevoerd te worden! En dus ga je bij TEDxYouth zelf aan de slag. Wat vind jij nou belangrijk om te leren? Hoe ziet volgens jou de ideale school er uit? (nee, altijd vrij is geen optie) Maar stel readmore

Sharing the Project Dreamschool story at LIFT11

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at LIFT11 in Geneva.

At LIFT11 I will share my story about Project Dreamschool that has a simple goal:)
Create the circumstances and situations where is the room and support where young people can develop themselves in readmore

We’re local, we zijn lokaal!

We’re extremely proud and happy of the reach we have with Project Dreamschool, the project went instant international since its conception, but even more seeing that it now also comes close. The project started from a knowledge sharing session to help create the best possible framework to build the new campus in Meppel upon, in readmore

Visual summary from Project Dreamschool at PICNIC10

Project Dreamschool at PICNIC’10 was incredibly fruitful. Instead of a written summary of the event, which is quite a challenge, we have a full visual summary. Everything that has been talked about, thought of, etc. has been captured in these fabulous visuals by visual philosopher and story sketcher Dennis Luijer and readmore

Project Dreamschool at PICNIC10

In one day at PICNIC ’10, we have developed creative and renewed solutions to realize a dream school. Visual thinkers joined the conversations and continuously sketched the solutions. With 150 people, coming from a global network of pioneering thinkers, visionaries and innovators, we made it happen. Thank you for joining us and PICNIC!

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Dreamschool.org & Droomschool.org

Just live, the temporary website for Project Dreamschool and the Dutch version as well. A simple website, where visitors are invited to share what their dream school is. Meanwhile we’re building the actual website.

Created together with readmore

Project Droomschool in Bright

In Bright #35 een groot artikel gewijd aan Project Droomschool:

De beste school voor Nederland en misschien wel voor de wereld; dat is de ambitieuze inzet van Project Droomschool. In Meppel verrijst een compleet nieuwe school waar een nieuwe visie op onderwijs wordt gerealiseerd. ‘De tijd van de eenheidsworst is voorbij.’

De mooiste ontmoetingen vinden readmore

Brainstorming with Knowmads and guests for Project Dream School

Today we had a great session at Knowmads to lead to a subject they will be working on as an assignment. The new Dream School Foundation board was there (Roel, Ellen and myself), together with special guests Jorn Bartlema, Thieu Besselink and Itay Talgam. It was a true roller coaster ride readmore

Just arrived! The Project Dream School Cahier Journals

These beautiful Project Dream School cahier journals, designed in collaboration with Martine Eyzenga, just came in! Made from paper waste and recycled paper. Kindly supported by Zwaan Printmedia and Antalis. Available for free (bundle of three, 80 pages each, each cahier with its own colored staples) for those who participate in readmore

Project Dream School Cahier Journals

Currently in production, these beautiful Project Dream School cahier journals, designed in collaboration with Martine Eyzenga, why is currently developing the identity for the project. The cahier journals will have plenty of space to write your dreams and do’s in to help realize better learning environments. The contents will be created from paper waste from readmore

Project Dream School gathering Schiphol

Today we had the privilege to have the second gathering for Project Dream School at the VIP Centre at Schiphol Airport with again a great group of people. Since the first meeting a lot has happened. A meeting to help Peter with his dream turned into a project with a lot readmore

Kick-off video impression

Now live, a 18 minute impression of the Project Dream School kick-off. Featuring Sir Ken Robinson, John Moravec and Jeff Jarvis. Created by Albert Brunsting. Thanks Albert!