I’m back from a busy week in the Netherlands. First on the agenda was Education Futures NL, an Education 3.0-focused workshop collaboration between Education Futures and Helikon (Fons van den Berg). In addition to our collaboration, the workshop was supplemented with contributions from Cristóbal Cobo and the Knowmads. Meeting space for the event was [...]
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Education Futures in the Netherlands
Wanted: 30 Knowmads
Remember Knowmads in Society 3.0? Something amazing is brewing in Europe. And, they’re looking for thirty candidates from around the world.
Knowmads is a new school for the world of tomorrow, starting in January 2010 in The Netherlands. After two years of learning with and from KaosPilots (International School for New Business Design and Social Innovation) [...]
November agenda: Boundless conversations
The month of November promises to be a remarkable series of boundless conversations on the intersections of creativity, technology and innovation in education.
First and foremost, I owe many thanks to Fons van der Berg for organizing Education Futures NL at the Creative Learning Lab in Amsterdam, November 2. The event will feature talks by me [...]
Farewell to the Average American
Looking at demographic trends across the United States, Advertising Age came to a conclusion that will be stunning for most people:
“The concept of an ‘average American’ is gone, probably forever,” demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. “The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society [...]
Education Futures NL coming November 2
Practical. Inspirational. Interactive.
November 2, 2009
10:00 – 18:00
Creative Learning Lab
Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam
Mark your calendars! On November 2, Education Futures NL, a workshop on designing education in the era of change, will kick off. Co-organized with Fons van den Berg (www.helikon.nl) and in cooperation with the Creative Learning Lab, we will bring Netherlands-area education [...]
Knowmads in the Netherlands
Education Futures introduced the knowmads concept last November. And, now we just learned that a major Dutch school of youth entrepreneurship, KaosPilots Netherlands, has decided to rebrand themselves as “Knowmads” (soon to be located online at knowmads.nl?).
From i-genius:
KaosPilots Netherlands in Rotterdam is shutting its doors and the team is reopening under a new guise (rumour [...]
Hallo Tegenlicht kijkers!
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Education Futures is receiving a lot of visitors from the Netherlands – supposedly viewers of tonight’s Tegenlicht episode. I enjoyed the interview, and hope that you’ll find the program engaging. I’d like to hear what you think! Also, if you’d like to learn more about the topics I discussed, [...]
Knowmads in Society 3.0
Remember nomads?
In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location. Industrialization forced the settlement of many nomadic peoples…
…but, something new is emerging in the 21st century: Knowmads.
A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative, imaginative, and [...]
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