Few Dutch schools will only use iPad for teaching
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
In August in the Netherlands opened 11 so-called "schools of Steve Jobs," which will take about a thousand students. The peculiarity of these educational institutions is that the entire educational process will take place without the use of conventional notebooks, textbooks, blackboards. Instead, students and teachers will only use Apple tablet.
Spiegel magazine wrote that this unique concept also implies the rejection of a strict schedule, the normal classes, parties and many other usual school life attributes. Instead, children aged 4 to 12 years who live in the Dutch city of Breda and will use the iPad to access educational materials of their choice and will carry out educational tasks individually.
Teachers remain, but their role has changed: instead of sharing knowledge, they will be performing "educational coaches", ie, They will be taught to learn. Since the whole process will take place in a digital form, students will be able to perform tasks when and where they want, both in the classroom and beyond.
«IPad to help teachers and parents to be constantly aware of what their children are, what they are learning and how well they are given this or that object," - writes Spiegel. "If the mathematical application does not fit or do not like the student, the teacher simply offers him more. The stock of educational apps in the Apple simply inexhaustible online store. "
"Schools Steve Jobs" will use the iPad for in-depth study of three skills: arithmetic, reading texts and understanding. iPad will not be used in educational disciplines related to physical activity games: physical education, drawing and designing.
Similar initiatives "digitization" of education developed in many countries. In California, just 2 weeks ago, the Council of district schools of Los Angeles made a $ 30 million contract with Apple to supply their students iPads preloaded with educational applications. In Russia in 2011 a lot of attention of the Russian press got an e-book Plastic Logic 100, which is at the state level has been declared an official school e-future textbook.