Creating learning environments for growing minds.
Nasewise is a (currently inactive) private project initiated by my sister (2016) aiming to bring mastery and critical thinking into the world. Inspired by science, but most of all children, we want to leverage creativity to make learning organic and help people dealing with their obstacles with regards to educational systems. More to come soon. Stay tuned!
“It is common practice and a widespread belief that kindergarten is the place for creativity and physical activity while this inevitable changes with school entry. School is often pictured as the place for hard work, boredom, and frustration. Some pedagogical approaches put forward that children are not ready to learn in terms of literacy until the age of seven years. Creativity and literacy are often treated as inconsistent concepts and, thus, often separated. Adopting this position will not lead to a profound revolution in the educational system. We need to stop treating creativity, physical activity, and literacy as different entities independent from each other. We don’t have to teach creativity, it is given to every individual. So let’s invert the view and see creativity as something we need to preserve rather than to teach and let us use creativity to teach and learn. If we want creative innovators it is not enough to think differently, we also have to have the courage to act differently. If we want to change education, we have to change the assessment of performance first. We believe that mastery is more important than memorization.“
Anja Belgardt, 25. September 2016
Our intentions:
Learning is a
basic need.
Grasp learning as a basic need and develop a positive attitude towards learning through creativity, critical thinking as well as teaching manners and values
Foster and support individuals.
Break the Dunning-Kruger-culture, provide methods and concepts to make individualised learning and self-education cool.
Gain back time for things that matter.
Help people to develop efficient learning strategies and tools to reduce stress, raise efficiency, gain time for things that matter, enable parents to help their kids and ultimately get back precious life time.
My part - visualize ideas!
As a part of my graphic design exam (2016), I needed to create a rough visual concept for a non-existent / fantasy service including a logo, basic color schemes, vision as well as examples of potential touchpoints with the customer. As this appeared to be in the same time period as we initiated Nasewise, I decided to take this opportunity to develop a concept for this project.
What we’ve learned:
It’s never a bad idea to start somewhere. It won’t be perfect or beautiful. But you will learn where you have knowledge gaps, where things don’t function or where you have to communicate better in order to get to the same understanding of your business.
Nobody burns out from something that is fun! This was a side-project to a full-time job/studies and therefore required a lot of discipline to get content out or concepts ready. However, all the hours put into it didn't feel like a burden. It gave energy into the system instead of pulling it out. It made me realize how important it is to select projects that align with one's personal values. Since that, I’m choosing my jobs and projects in a different way.
It’s good to give it some time as well as the distance to estimate the pros and cons more realistically and from a more experienced perspective.
