This was day 1 of the SURF 2024 education days
On 12 and 13 November, the leading education and ICT event will take place at Amare in The Hague: the SURF Education Days. Npuls will also be there again. We will take you through a brief report of the first day.
What are we training for?
After a dance performance by students from the Royal Conservatoire, Jan Bransen (Radboud University) and Anne Marie van Rooijen (MBO Utrecht) debated the question: “What are we educating for?”. Education is about more than preparing for work; it is about wonder and discovering who you are. Teachers play a key role in this. Technology in education also raises questions: is it an enrichment or an extra burden? And how do you inspire wonder in students? We continued the day with these philosophical questions.
Launch of GO OPEN
During the first day of the SURF Education Days, we also launched the GO OPEN awareness campaign. Students deserve a choice in learning materials. This is one of the statements of the national GO OPEN awareness campaign. We want to start a movement to make education professionals in secondary vocational education, higher professional education and university education aware of the existence of open educational resources. We help institutions and ambassadors to put open learning materials firmly on the map.
One of the sessions in the spotlight
Various methods of future thinking were applied in the Campus of the Future project. Barend Last took us through these during his session. Design Thinking offers tools such as the “STEEP analysis” and the “Double Diamond” model, and the “Futures Wheel” gives you insight into the driving forces at work, the trends that cause them and how this leads to consequences. By setting aside intuition and applying future tests, you avoid tunnel vision and evaluate ideas critically. In this way, future thinking helps us to look ahead in a structured and creative way, enabling us to make well-considered decisions for a better future.