The Learning Lab

23/08/2015

Dear all, if you have the chance, please shre and vote for our school proposal so we might be able to build an actual Circular School in Amsterdam!!! This is such a unique opportunity. And if you want to join, let me know.

De Circulaire School wordt ontwikkeld midden in en samen met de circulaire wijk Buiksloterham. Ze komt voort uit het verlangen om de volledige potentie van leerlingen en onszelf te ontwikkelen en om een verschil te maken vanuit het besef dat we ook toekomstige generaties de kans willen geven goed vo…

26/03/2013

I love how our students started Lab 3. In a self-organised gala, on a self shot and directed film they ask each other about learning, teaching and contributing.

16/03/2013

http://www.knowmadsociety.com

Our book came out on learning in the Knowmad Society

29/05/2012

A great new project!

The Economy School offers a spectacular crash course "emerging economy" around the wicked questions of the energy sector. An action research for the foundational principles of a new economy, its wicked questions, the forms and models that may give an alternative, and the path of transition to these ...

18/05/2012

True! anythng else?

Be aware of the insidious and unspoken lessons you learned as a child. To thrive in the world outside the classroom, you’re going to have to unlearn them. Dangerous things you were taught in school: 1. The people in charge have all the answers. That’s why they are so wealthy and happy and [...]

23/12/2011

http://www.thelearninglab.nl/

Thieu Besselink: I believe that with the end of systemic security in our society you cannot understand the increasingly complex world unless you participate it its creation. The same is true for our individual lives.

23/12/2011

Generation Q event of Lab 4 at the occupied shell laboratoria

Eindpresentaties in een donker kraakpand zonder stroom. De studenten van The Learning Lab organiseerden in het oude Shell laboratorium een avond om te laten ...

23/12/2011

Lab 4 closed this week. It was a great adventure!

29/06/2011

One of the speakers, Michael Burke, Head of the Academic Core Department at RA, stressed that universities had to catch up in terms of focusing on quality teaching versus research. Currently, "teaching is extraordinarily undervalued, while research is overvalued". Universities would often push their

12/03/2011

Directed by Jochem Smit & Victor van Doorn In 2010, a group of twenty Honors students enrolled in a course at the University of Amsterdam, with the vague description ‘The Learning Lab’. Though also providing for them a vast array of inspirational speakers,...

12/03/2011