The book has been a success already in Dutch with almost 1800 copies sold in 5 weeks time. For who can’t read Dutch, the English version will be published in March by Sage Publishing. Some people were lucky enough to read the book already, and had this to say about it: If you’re seeking to… Read More This is the cover of my new book: The Ingredients for Great Teaching
When I started working on my PhD 2 elements were key: education and popular culture, more specific pop music. After a while I had to make a tough decision and had to focus on authenticity in education. But that didn’t mean that I forgot about that other element. Yes, I’m still a musician, but also… Read More A totally different aspect of my scientific interests in a new book chapter: talking about New Beat
This is the presentation I gave at the National ResearchED conference, September 9 2017. The presentation is in part based on our book Urban Myths about Learning and Education and in part based on the recent article I co-wrote with Paul Kirschner published in Teaching and Teacher Education (yes the one that was mentioned in Nature).
Lately I’ve seen how mythbusting can be used as a tool to push your own opinion. I don’t like this, so let’s call it a myth. As co-author of a book in which Paul, Casper and myself try to debunk edumyths, I want to explain how we tried not to make this mistake. First of… Read More A short piece on mythbusting and possible misuse
Urban Myths has been bringing us around the globe (both in Europe and the States). Next summer the Chinese version will be published, but February 4 the Swedish version will be released. And… this is the cover and a bit of info in Swedish.
It has been a blast, and it was truly an honor to be part of this great conference. For the people looking for my slides, here they are:
I just received this infographic by the nice people of – ehm – Nice Media based on our book Urban Myths about Learning & Education, you can find & download the poster here.
Finally we can make it public that Paul (Kirschner), Casper (Hulshof) and I have great news about our book “Urban myths about learning and education”. Today – March 16th – an article in American Educator based on one of the sections of our book, namely the section on ICT-myths is online. Go to http://www.aft.org/ae/spring2016/debruyckere-kirschner-and-hulshof American Educator… Read More “Urban myths about learning & education” is conquering the world, read free chapter of our book in American Educator
This is the keynote that I gave in London November 11th, 2015 for ELN. I like to thank David Didau for the 2 slides on spaced repetition.