Last Friday, I was mentioned in my speaker agency’s newsletter, Speakeracademy.com. Pedro de Bruyckere was recently invited to go to New York for Speakers Academy! He gave a lecture there, and the client was super enthusiastic: “We are a non-profit organization that has over 200 adult educators. Yearly we organize an event that brings these… Read More This comment made me feel both great and humble
One of the bigger challenges in education is upscaling. Something worked like a charm in a project, but when the project inspires other schools or even inspires new legislation, things often get much less spectacular. Maybe it was an example of the Hawthorne effect. Quite often, it was because the original participants in the project… Read More The most difficult question in education if something works: what is actually working?
How I’ve missed being with my friends in the States, it has been so long. Luckily I’ll be meeting a lot of those friends and hopefully make new ones at ResearchED Us 22 in Frederick, Maryland. There are still some tickets left… The program is full of relevant options, making it hard to pick a… Read More Next week I’ll be at ResearchED US 22! #rEDUS #researchFRED
It’s the last day of June. I still have a lot of work left to do, but it’s also getting high time to take a break. Therefore I won’t be posting anything on this blog until August. Have a great July and hope to see you all again. Btw, our new book will be published… Read More See you on the other side of summer!
The podcast version https://media.blubrry.com/homeroom_with_sal_khan/p/content.blubrry.com/homeroom_with_sal_khan/211111_Pedro_De_Bruyckere.mp3 The YouTube version:
It must have been 2012 when I first read Rousseau en ik (Rousseau and me) by Dutch philosopher Maarten Doorman. While it’s impossible to underestimate Jean Jacques Rousseau’s influence on our thinking about education and raising our children, I discovered that he was instead a jack of all trades but master of none. And then… Read More One of education’s fascinating dirty little secrets
For the past 3 years I have been of the CTTL Summer Academy, but sadly this year everything is canceled because of Corona. But wait, why not take everything online? Click here for more info.
This is the slidedeck I used in my keynote for the 24th E-learn conference 2019 in New Orleans, November 7th.