Using his professional background in creative consulting and innovation, Leonard Sommer started the research project Classroom Thinktank to encourage and enable dialogue and resources to be shared between creative industries and education. Assuming the whole education system will need to make a radical transition in many countries worldwide, he asked more than 100 creatives and...
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MyMachine featured in Difference Making at the Heart of Learning
Difference Making at the Heart of Learning is the latest book by Tom Vander Ark and Emily Liebtag. This book features MyMachine and at the special Corwin launch event, Tom and Emily have highlighted MyMachine (as the only non-USA organisation). The book brings a sharp analysis on the role of education for the 21st century....
MyMachine book across bookshops in Belgium
Our book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide is now also on sale in bookshops across Belgium. Standaard Boekhandel is the biggest bookshop-company with 183 shops across the country. We are proud that this market-leader has shown interest in our book and has decided to distribute it though their shops in...
Our book now live in the Apple iBooks Store
What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide was launched a couple of weeks ago. Today we are proud to announce that the book is now being added to an additional platform: it is live in the Apple iBooks Store. Purchase your e-book copy in the Apple iBooks Store here: Apple iBooks Store. Click...
Viktor Javorek on his MyMachine experience
When we asked Viktor what he’d taken away from his participation in MyMachine Slovakia as a product design student at the Technical University of Kosice (Tuke), he said “there’s a lot to say about that: the anxiety of having to work for young children, the promise them that a solution will be found and the...
Harvard University on MyMachine
Amy Kamarainen, Christina Smiraglia and Edward P. Clapp, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University: “Students in MyMachine learn that they can contribute to society, rather than just be a consumer of society. But ultimately what strikes us most about MyMachine is its ability to cultivate wonder, joy and a sense of community accross school populations − and even...
Magali – alumna MyMachine – on her MyMachine experience
Magali Veramme, alumna MyMachine: “In retrospect, I now refer to my first job as MyMachine Extra-Large: I need to listen to a strict, very demanding customer and make it happen, despite budget limitations and deadlines. Yes, exactly like MyMachine!”. Read the full story in our brand new book: What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children...
Hank Nourse – The New York Academy Of Sciences – on MyMachine
Hank Nourse, Senior Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at The New York Academy of Sciences, member of IBE-UNESCO’s technical working group on Future Competencies and the Future of Curriculum: “By engaging children’s imaginations and encouraging all members of the education community to share in their innocence, curiosity, and capacity to dream, MyMachine has the...
3 years of hard work, 21 co-writers from 9 countries and a foreword by Sir Ken Robinson
MyMachine is all about a special collaboration between students of primary, higher and secondary education, creating the dream machines invented by the primary school students. So to be honest, we know a little something about creating special collaborations. But this one however was new to us. And what a marvel. We are really proud to present...