Since this week I have a weekly column on BNR, called Unsolicited Advice (Ongevraagd Advies)! I do this column together with a number of others who do the column on other days. You can follow all Ongevraagd Advies via Spotify (in Dutch), I will add links to my column at the bottom. I’m going to […]
Tools for teaching versus tools for learning
This post has been in my drafts for over a year, and I keep revising it and pondering more about it, but I think the time to publish is now, since I have also been talking about this in talks. In fact, I now say that Hedy has three main points that differentiate it from […]
ChatGPT3 and programming education
Last summer I was in a panel about programming education, where my statement was: “The tyranny of autograders should be stopped” and as they say “be careful what you wish for” because with ChatGPT3 I might get my wish! And I wanted to write a blog post accompanying the panel forever, and now that people […]
Marathon food
[This is a post for April Cools, a supercool idea by Hillel Wayne to write a post about something that we normally don’t blog about.] When I started to train for my first marathon, I read a lot about shoes, heart rate, water intake, but not really a lot about… food. Doing half marathons, I […]
Code Reading Club
There is a lot to be said about learning to program, what languages to use, what didactics to use, to learn it in a university or in a boot camp, but one thing I think is similar in all those situations: a strong focus on creating code, very often ‘green-field’ code, starting from a specification […]
