As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Recording a process is not as easy as it may seem at first. Yes, making a series of videos about the things you are working on is not that difficult. But, it can be difficult to visually capture your emotions and learning moments on camera. You soon run into the problem of transforming these feelings into something concrete. At least, that is how I have experienced this before.
It got me thinking - The great ideas were not exactly pouring in yet - And boom, while I am sending a GIF in a group chat, it all comes together.
Many of us use GIFs and emojis in our conversations to add a little fun, but also to literally show our reactions to someone on the other side of the screen. Why not use the power of those GIFs for my video as well? Of course, my own footage of the process could not be left out. After all, your own input makes it something YOU.
I discovered the things that are available to us day in and day out offer much more than the reason they were originally created for.
Trust me when I say that ‘letting go’ and ‘not knowing how it all turns out’ is a real challenge for me. This hardly ever happens. As it turns out, scouring the internet for the perfect GIFs is quite enjoyable :). Exactly for this reason the making of the video did not feel like it was mandatory or a as a must at all. It actually gave me the space to let go and experiment to see what would happen.
Moral of the story: just try.
Did it turn out amazing?
>> Use it to your advantage.
Did it not turn out that awesome?
>> look at the pieces that could have potential because there is something useful within everything that you do.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
