Today I keynoted the Dutch Moodlemoot (mootnl12). I talked about how current times force us to let go of curricula, why it is more important than anything else to teach students how to learn, what it means to work in a knowledge society (work becomes synonymous with learning) and what this might mean for a … Continue reading Werken = Leren & Leren ≠ Werken
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Withishness or How do you Predict the Quality of a Teacher?
For most of the years that I worked as a teacher at the Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer I was a part time coach for new teachers. The goal was to try and help them be a better educator in a new school. I always had the feeling that my input had very little effect: some teachers … Continue reading Withishness or How do you Predict the Quality of a Teacher?