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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

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

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

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

Stad&Esch acceleration session Symbolism

The ambitions for Stad & Esch are high. The mission is to prepare pupils optimally for the challenges the 21st century offers them, knowing that this century is already well on its way, and successful people require more than just a diploma. This will be a future in which technological, social and demographic developments will 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

John Moravec on education for Stad&Esch

John Moravec joint me at TEDxDelft as a guest since he was in the Netherlands. And that was nice, had some great talks about a lot and we shared a lot of insights. Inbetween the inspiring talks we did a small interview, readmore

Stad&Esch acceleration session Education

The ambitions for Stad & Esch are high. The mission is to prepare pupils optimally for the challenges the 21st century offers them, knowing that this century is already well on its way, and successful people require more than just a diploma. This will be a future in which technological, social and demographic developments will readmore

Stad&Esch acceleration session Culture

The ambitions for Stad & Esch are high. The mission is to prepare pupils optimally for the challenges the 21st century offers them, knowing that this century is already well on its way, and successful people require more than just a diploma. This will be a future in which technological, social and demographic developments will 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

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

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

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.