On 8 October 2025 I was in Rotterdam with the team from Expertisecentrum ISK Dordrecht, at a study day held by the Taalunie. We weren't there by accident — we were looking for good solutions. For our students, for our teachers. So we listened. Took notes. Asked questions.
And somewhere in the middle of that day I heard a presentation I haven't been able to shake since.
Knowing good teaching activities was never the hard part. Using them every week, without spending the evening before preparing, is the hard part.
Jessica Vervoort and Els Lievens from Panorama Antwerp described how they had agreed, as a team, to use activating teaching activities structurally. A school in the heart of Antwerp where more than 70% of students speak a language other than Dutch at home.
They made every teacher a tear-off calendar of activities. At every team meeting they ran one of them — tied to whatever was going on in the school at that moment. Simply to make it familiar. They chose 21 activities and knew this might not be the work of a single year.
It might not be the work of a single year.
But it is a shared undertaking — and that is what makes the difference.
They gave me the calendar to take home. I went home. And I kept thinking — not about what they had done, but about what was still possible.
Six months, the same question
What if teachers had these activities not only on paper, but interactively — so you could simply project them on the screen, step by step, without having to work them out the evening before?
I believe the best ideas are actually very simple. And that they appear at the moment the world is ready for them. Digital technology now makes it possible to make teaching activities more accessible than ever — not to replace the teacher, but to take the barrier away.
The point is not to replace the teacher. It is to make sure a good structure does not fail on the effort it takes to prepare it.
That is what I am trying to build with LudensFlow.
What you'll find at LudensFlow
Every activity on the platform is interactive and ready to use — on the interactive whiteboard, step by step, with a timer that runs on its own.
Interactive and ready to use → open it on the whiteboard and start; every step is already on screen.
No student accounts → participants don't log in, don't need a phone or a tablet.
No long preparation → no evening spent designing slides or timing the steps.