2017 was a special year for a lot of people. I know that there are lot of reasons to have mixed feelings. I do have to admit that for me it has been a year filled with incredible stuff. I want to summarize my year in a couple of tweets, but the best news I… Read More This was my 2017 in 4 tweets and a bit more
Wow, this is it: post 2000 on The Economy Of Meaning. This means: 188 Funny on Sundays, Over 400.000 views, A still growing amount of daily visitors, international translations of our work, and much, much more. What have been the most popular posts, you ask? So you want to compare educational systems from different countries? Where to… Read More Post 2000 on The Economy Of Meaning!
I have something to admit: I love being in America. I’ve been a couple of times in NY, I drove from Chicago to LA with my wife on our honeymoon with unforgettable detours via Memphis and Nashville. 2 years ago we drove on route 1 with our sons, 10 years after our honeymoon and I’m… Read More A personale note on the US today
The end of a year is always a great moment to look back at what were the most popular 2016-posts on this blog: Second funny on Sunday because too funny: a science paper written by Donald J Trump (no comment) Devil’s advocate. A plea against Prince Ea (Casper Hulshof) Gartner’s hype cycle for education 2016 Howard… Read More 2016 and The Economy Of Meaning
The past 2 years I’ve seen a steady rise of people using LinkedIn. I receive daily invites to connect and I also noticed that a lot of people visit this blog via this social media platform. In my experience LinkedIn is the more serious, older brother in the social media landscape. This is of course because the… Read More Just an idea for Microsoft: put a factcheck-button on LinkedIn
I returned from the fabulous ResearchED Scandinavia in Gothenburg. I landed in Zaventem, run for my car to see my loved ones asap. Today I see the images of the place were I come so very often. Scattered, ruined with lots of people in pain, many people killed. It’s a stupid thing to say, but… Read More 2 days ago… #Brussels
This is the keynote I gave at the Media & Learning conference, Brussels, March 11th, 2016. Parts were based on our book ‘Urban Myths about Learning and Education”, by myself, Paul Kirschner & Casper Hulshof
I’ve been blogging for quite a while in a sometimes very personal version of English. If I look at my visitor stats, a lot of people visit this blog from throughout the world. I’m living in Belgium and we have been receiving some bad press lately. Now, it’s not typical for someone coming from Belgium to… Read More A bit of a different post: let’s talk about Belgium for a minute
Yesterday I discovered this one-page summary of our book by Oliver Cavigliol and it looks great (note to myself, be careful with the Coca Cola…). This is a new updated version, including my 2 co-authors Paul & Casper. Some people noticed that the link to the Daniel Willingham-video doesn’t work, check here. If you like what you… Read More Our book “Urban myths about learning and education” summarized on one page
When Mark Knopfler wanted to refuel, tired from touring with Dire Straits after their very successful Brothers in Arms-album, he recorded an album with some old friends called “Missing… presumed having a good time”. Their band was called The Notting Hilbillies. Well, the past 2 years have been a great ride, blogging almost every single day… Read More Missing… presumed having a good time
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