We started Simulise with the idea of developing a digital platform where children, students and adults can build a portfolio that belongs to them. A portfolio that supports your lifelong development. Learning and developing you do throughout your life and...
More and more schools are finding it important for students and pupils to develop skills in addition to knowledge. But how do you implement skills education within your existing teaching? The following 6 tips will help you get started.’ TIP...
Working with a portfolio increases students’ self-confidence. Why? You can read about that in this blog. 1. After all, a portfolio is about what a student can already do In regular testing, the emphasis is on what a student cannot...
I was recently attending a general parents’ evening on study choices for my son who is taking final exams next year. Several studies passed in review. During the break, I caught a conversation from other parents. One mother said her...
Maaike Rodenboog is curriculum developer at SLO. Her research interests include measuring and tracking 21st-century skills in rubrics. How do you create a rubric when there is no existing one? When do you deploy a rubric? And how do you...
Hans van Vlaanderen visits educational institutions throughout the country every day to demonstrate the online portfolio Simulise. But why is yet another tool in education so desperately needed? An interview about the education, skills and job market of the future....
Skills are more important than knowledge. That’s a pretty bold statement. In recent years, developments have been rapid in the field of ICT and knowledge has quickly become obsolete. Knowledge has also never been so massively and easily available. For...
In recent months, I’ve been talking to a lot of people about the learning portfolio. People from education, business students and apprentices. What is interesting to note is that everyone has a different view of portfolio. Fortunately, portfolio is no...
In 1999, I began working at the predecessor of Kennisnet to roll out the Internet in education. All elementary, secondary and vocational schools received an Internet connection, the start of the learning landscape. Of course, that gave digital learning a...
