A lifetime of change

5th May 2016Leave a comment

Anyone who started working in the 60’s and 70’s never thought that their lives would be impacted by technology in a never ending pace. Fax machines, personal computers, internet for all, the first mobile phones, mp3, widescreen color tv, flat screens, digital photography and video, car computers, GPS, YouTube, Yahoo, Google, and so on. I’m sure you can name a lot more fantastic innovations you encountered in your life and made a change. At first these innovations came gradually and the impact on the daily job wasn’t transforming the way whole companies were organized.

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Is the teacher still the killer app in the future of learning?

10th March 2016Leave a comment

A few decades from now how will teaching look like? How will schools be organized and what about learning materials? I strongly believe that if personalised learning is the future for K-12 schools publishers will go through an important transformation from one size fits all to offering solutions for teachers to tune the learning materials to the needs of their pupils. I wrote another article on that thought in this article Could this be the school of the future. Continue reading →

E-zine future of learning

8th September 2015Leave a comment

Since Monday, Jan. 26 2015 I’m writing an e-zine about the future of learning. It contains well chosen, relevant and exiting articles that will trigger you. At least, that’s what I hope. We’re living in exponential times.

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Could this be the school for your child’s future

26th June 20152 Comments

I’m not talking about this building. Schools as we know them today will be visible only on foto’s and video’s in a museum in this new era. That century old concept will cease to exist. No longer will kids get crammed together in the same room for most of the day, harnessed by creativity-less curricula.

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24th June 2014: the day I stopped handwriting

24th June 2015Leave a comment

I never thought that day would actually come. It all started a year ago with mixed feelings about the way I took written notes and converting them into reports, action points, next appointments, etc. on my laptop in my office. It was actually spending more time than needed.

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Bingel on Edsurge’s podcast (CA, USA)

5th June 20151 Comment

EdSurge was started in 2011 by Betsy Corcoran, Matt Bowman, Nick Punt and Agustin Vilaseca to connect the emerging community of edtech entrepreneurs and educators. They want to share detailed information about what new technologies could–and could not–do to support learning.

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10 tips you’ll never forget for successful exams

3rd June 20151 Comment

It’s that time of year again, exams are here. If that’s the case for you, let me give you 10 study tips you’ll never forget! Good luck.

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Learning Unintentionally vs. Stopping to Learn | Top Edu Depot

23rd May 20151 Comment

This is an interesting post by my Finnish friend Santtu.

One way to make a distinction between learning strategies is: 1) the learner is unaware of the topics she is learning; 2) underlining the topics, making sure that the learner knows what the learning goal at hand is.

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Don’t miss it

23rd May 2015Leave a comment

When it comes to the Future of Learning three basic cornerstones are the principles of making it happen.

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If learning is a journey, what could be the story

29th April 20152 Comments

Imagine that learning is no longer a burden but an interesting, challenging, fun trip on brain island and suppose you get control over your own learning.

Wouldn’t that be great? Wouldn’t that show respect for the learner?

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