PRESS

2023

School News - Article
Surviving and thriving with ChatGPT
"Because everything’s going to change so rapidly, children need to be highly adaptable"

School News - Article
Learning leaps with loose parts
"When children are in a self directed, creative and open-ended environment, quite simply they learn more deeply"

Education Review - Article
Giving students the critical skills needed to thrive in an AI world
"If artificial intelligence has now got the power to replace many repetitive and even highly complex tasks, how does that change what we teach our students now?"

2022

Education Matters - Article
The secret to student success: collaboration
"With students finally able to physically collaborate and work together again, Nüdel Kart offers the perfect environment to bring back hands-on, open ended STEM based learning with a strong focus on those hard-to-teach curriculum capabilities, like social skills and critical and creative thinking."

Sunday Herald Sun - Article
Educators are starting to take play seriously
"We're starting to understand that play is learning"

Education Matters - Article
Future-proofing our children by teaching skills critical for success
“Creativity flourishes in a more flexible environment”

People who Play - Podcast
Ep 22. The Magic of Loose Parts Play

Loose Parts Nature Play - Podcast
Creativity, Playground Ideas and Nüdel Kart

2021

TV Segment - Appearance for Playground Ideas
Channel 7 | The House of Wellness with hosts Jo Stanley & Luke Darcy
Season 5 - Episode 11 | February 2021

TV Segment - Appearance for Nüdel Kart
Channel 7 | The House of Wellness with hosts Jo Stanley & Luke Darcy
Season 5 - Episode 18 | March 2021

Radio show - Appearance
Pulse FM, Geelong with Mitchell Dye 13th September 2021

Radio show - Appearance
ABC Goulburn Murray with Sandra Moon 14th September 2021

Radio show - Appearance
ABC Sunshine Coast with Jessica Lamb 13th September 2021

Radio show - Appearance
ABC National Radio, Life Matters with Hilary Harper and Michael Mackenzie 10th September 2021

Radio show - Appearance
ABC Radio with Mile Van Acker 5th September 2021

Radio show - Appearance
ABC Radio Digital with Eddie Perfect 4th September 2021

Radio show - Appearance
ABC Radio Overnights with Trevor Chappell 31st August 2021

Radio show - Appearance
Southern FM, Best Medicine with Gaytana 31st August 2021

Radio show - Appearance
Radio Canberra with Georgia Stynes 30th August 2021

Radio show - Appearance
Radio Brisbane with Katherine Feeney 27th August 2021

Radio show - Appearance
Casey FM with Henry Grossek 26th August 2021

2019

The video above features the Nüdel Kart prototype.

Innovation Lab 2019
San Diego Airport
Nüdel Kart was given the opportunity to interact with airport stakeholders to develop and test the Nüdel Kart idea with more than 25 million passengers at the third busiest single-runway airport in the world trial as part of the San Diego Airport Innovation Lab.

This is perfect! My kid will play here, and then sleep on the plane.”
– Mom w/ kid age 3

I’ll just wait and board last, I want her to have more play time!”
– Mom w/ kid age 3

2015

TedTalk
Ending poverty using plastic cups and wooden spoons
Self-described maker, hacker and designer Marcus Veerman is CEO and Founder of Playgroundideas.org, an organisation that supports communities around the world to build playgrounds from local tools, materials, and skills. With a background in primary education, outdoor leadership, and design-build learning, he founded Playground Ideas after spearheading the construction of 40 bespoke playgrounds along the Thai/Burma border. Marcus responded to a wave of interest in international playground building by creating an open source platform to share best practices.

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