Tag Archives: education

Jeroen Krouwels: “The educational system must keep up with time”

Stijnie Thuijs | 17 October 2011, 1:38 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

With a rich history in education and ICT as a teacher, involvement in a governmental educational ICT project ‘Teleleren’, the establishing of an ICT institute for business education, being manager at an educative publisher and a management trainer, Jeroen Krouwels is currently co-owner, executive Business Development and senior advisor at PAT Learning Solutions, based in Tilburg. It…

Book review:Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler

Mzia Kupunia | 20 September 2011, 1:02 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Marketing technologies pose great threat to the future generations – this is the main thesis of French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler’s book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. In a work published in English language in 2010, Stiegler begins with discussing the issue of lack of responsibility among the adults in the contemporary society. He reviews a then…

Getting data, sharing data and raising political awareness.

olga paraskevopoulou | 07 May 2011, 3:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

Using vision to amplify cognition. According to the Light Switch Theory, vision appeared on Earth around 543 million years ago and triggered the Cambrian explosion (evolution’s Big Bang). Before that none of the living entities could see and relied to other senses for their survival. The evolution of the eye changed life dynamics. When living organisms were able to

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What Data Visualization Can Learn from Game Design

Philip Man | 19 April 2011, 9:38 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

When reading articles and books on data visualization, the focus is often on ampiflying cognition by using external (visual) aids. In this blogpost I attempt to conduct a kind of meta-analysis on data visualization by looking beyond the content of the visualization and concentrating more on the intrinsic motivations of the user.

The Unbound Book Conference, May 19-21

Elias van Hees | 12 April 2011, 2:58 pm | tags: , , , ,

Reading and publishing in the digital age

The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, is rapidly growing outdated. The book is coming unbound in a double sense: both freed from the bindings of the printed volume, and from the limitations of conventional text. The entire concept of ‘bookness’ needs reinvention. Critical cultural forces must step in…

Digital Publishing in Education

Fei An Tjan | 21 October 2010, 4:30 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

In this new era of digital publishing, we should not only be concerned with the things we can can do in our leisure time, moreover, we should try to find the boundaries of what digital publishing can mean to our education system. At this point, the e-book is still causing me some stress but I can also see the great potential it has for mobile learning environments and efficiency. Though we should not forget the implications this can have on students and definitely don’t think too lightly about this.

If it Looks Like a Book, and Reads Like a Book, is it a Book?

Marte Lindstrom | 17 October 2010, 5:42 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The death of the book has been foreseen:  Several sources have predicted the demise of the book as we know it, like a modern Nostradamus. However, this is not the first time in history that we have heard this prediction. The introduction of the radio was also supposed to kill the book, as was the advent of …

E-readers and e-books for education

Anne Lukas | 16 October 2010, 4:29 pm | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Firstly, I need to say that I love to read and I love technology. So isn’t an e-reader the perfect combination of both? Isn’t it the perfect compromise between the small screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch and the chunky format of a regular book? In my opinion, yes! I believe that in the future the e-reader will be…

Microblogging = Micro-education?

Anne Lukas | 07 October 2010, 3:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Since the beginning of the Twitter hype, I was wondering what the value of Twitter is. Can we possibly learn anything from or through microblogging? Is it useful for companies to encourage lifelong learning? Or can schools and other institutions improve their education with microblogging? Until now I haven’t found an answer for these questions and until now I still…

Involve me, and I’ll understand: Classroom 2.0

Anouka Slemmer | 27 September 2010, 11:15 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Returning to the topic I wrote about two weeks ago, I’d like to have another look at the use of technology in education. It was easy to express my annoyances about the way platforms such as Blackboard are oftentimes used, but now for the more constructive part: what can we do about it? I’d like to broaden this subject to include not just electronic learning environments, but a wider range of digital social practices that could be used in educational settings, such as chat, wikis and blogs.