Category: 2018 TEDxTalk: Dutch DNA-Based Education

Damiaan Denys

Anxious to learn  Damiaan Denys, philosopher, professor and psychiatrist at the Brainwash Academy, treats people with anxiety disorders. He will explain the relation between learning, dopamine and fear. We’re anxious to learn, but that is a good thing. He states that we cannot learn without anxiety and if you like learning you learn something you…
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Cees van Lotringen

Back to the future: the Dutch DNA Cees van Lotringen is a writer, journalist and entrepreneur. For writing his latest book ‘Tot hier en nu verder’ he studied Dutch history and discovered three differentiating qualities that make the Dutch, Dutch. Dutch people are pragmatic, entrepreneurial and liberal-minded. His ideas are fundamental when talking about Dutch…
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David Giron

Codam Amsterdam: ‘Codam, a new way of learning’ David Giron, director at Codam College, talks about the unique way of education at Codam. Codam’s learning system is the opposite to traditional education: you won’t listen to teachers and take notes but you will learn through doing and solving hard problems in a peer-to-peer environment where…
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Peter Merry

– Forged from the Future: the Ubiquity Experiment Peter Merry is co-founder Ubiquity University, a social learning and innovation platform forged from the future. He talks about the Ubiquity Experiment and how this helps the next generation to be future proof. Basics of the Ubiquity Experiment are a combination of 3 elements: (1) explore with academic…
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Rutger Verhoeff

– There is no *I* in Bildung Rutger Verhoeff, designer at Bildung Academy, highlights the importance of confusion and to trust the process. De Bildung Academie is a bottom-up initiative in Amsterdam run by a team of highly driven and enthusiastic students, young alumni, and professors. The initiative originated from the desire to fully develop oneself…
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