The Dutch 11 "Jobs School" only use the IPad without books, paper textbooks in the near future or banned

Recently, the Netherlands People's Daily reported that, from August this year, 11 "Jobs schools" will choose to use the IPad to teach. This educational change has been widely supported by the Dutch Parliament. It is reported that the 11 schools will recruit 1000 or so 4-12-year-old students ...

They will only use the IPad to learn, there is no homework, schoolbags and books and other traditional teaching tools. The school will provide them with virtual teaching environment through the IPAD, students can decide their own learning content and learning time, teachers will give them some guidance.

The People's Daily survey shows that all parties except the Dutch new Liberal Party are full of anticipation. Members of the Liberal Party say that the world is changing rapidly and that education cannot be fixed. The Socialists said that rote learning was outdated and that the ipad was a better way to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. The school's founder said that from the birth of the IPad to the current three years, there has been a "baby revolution", because of its touch screen technology and easy to use characteristics, young children can also grow in the digital media environment. Jobs School teaches a 21st century-oriented skill that may not include writing on paper with a pen, but involves typing on a touchscreen with 10 fingers.

In his biography, Mr. Jobs talked about American education in a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. Jobs said the classroom was still taught by teachers on the podium, and jobs thought that textbooks should be interactive and provide specific content for each student. Mr Jobs wants textbooks to be part of the IPAD, which he believes will save educational spending.

Earlier this year, Apple launched a digital textbook proposal. The company, in collaboration with three textbook publishers, has launched a series of interactive electronic textbooks that can be used on the iPad. Apple is expanding the program to allow students in all grades to use electronic textbooks to achieve the ideal digital classroom from the hardware.

At present, at least 50 countries and regions, including the United States, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, have or are planning to promote electronic textbooks.

The San Jose Business School in Belgium suffered an "apple" storm last year when it announced that the school had been forced to promote the IPad teaching, starting on the first day of the new semester in September, without using paper textbooks and workbooks. After the students were strongly opposed to fruitless, some students had to choose to protest by transferring.

for private primary schools

In Switzerland's famous private elementary schools, more and more courses rely on tablets. Different people have different views on this. "The tablet is not just a simple book substitute, it also provides a holistic and interactive learning environment that helps teachers make better use of their resources," explains the Swiss education Group's academic chairman. ”

South Korea's Ministry of Education has invested 2 billion of billions of dollars in primary schools with tablet computers to replace all paper textbooks by 2015. In addition, the Korean government wants to build its own cloud system to create a database containing all the books of the digital primary school.

The Correze, Dep. De La Council buys the iPad for free to middle school students. The move sparked controversy during the presidential campaign and was evidence of a right-wing attack on Mr Hollande's mismanagement. In addition, Iser, Dep. De L' A class of primary school students to try I-pad classes in the first quarter of 2011, while Ange invested 650,000 euros in equipping primary schools with tablets.

Shanghai Jiading Experimental Primary School opened two "Apple classes", students can use the IPad class, answer questions, do exercises. However, the time spent on the IPad in one class will be controlled in about 20 minutes. Students should not use the IPad for more than one hours outside of class. And Beijing, Nanjing and other cities have some schools to carry out the IPad teaching pilot.

Richer Education resources

The electronic schoolbag, which is represented by the IPad, is not the electronic teaching material in the ordinary sense, it is the integration of the digital education resources. All learning materials are placed in the "cloud", as long as there is demand, students can download online anytime.

IPad class is a trend

All over the world for electronic schoolbags are actively studied and promoted, some developing countries such as Thailand, Argentina, the IPad sent to children to bring them into class. China's emphasis on education is very high, and Thailand and Argentina are also applicable in China.

Suitable for today's students

E-Learning is an interactive feature that is more suitable for today's students because electronic devices are part of everyday life.

Cause machine dependence.

Electronic Schoolbags as an electronic product, people on the High-tech production of dependence, the ability to abstract thinking greatly weakened, with electronic products, the children's basic formula is not back, the simple calculation is not done, the original use of human brain activities, now all by the machine replaced, this is not a good thing.

Reduce communication between people

The introduction of the IPad in addition to the convenience of teachers, promote exam-oriented education, reduce the exchange between students and teachers and students, I really can not think of any benefits. Moreover, the development of technology is becoming more and more fool, the IPad itself will not improve people's ability to use new technology products.

Erase the students ' imagination

Now some schools use information technology, "Browse" a lot of time, but "stay" time is not much. Knowing more about information technology and showing too much may obliterate students ' imagination. Not all courses, all classrooms need to "one-size-fits-all" Use of information technology, should have a choice.

The Silicon Valley elite who invented the IPad seems to be out of line with the general human mentality. According to the New York Times, ebay's chief technology officer has sent his children to a "low tech school," and other Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard have sent their children to the school.

The Los Latos School in California is not allowed to use computers, its teaching tools are pens, paper and knitting needles, and occasionally mud. The school doesn't even agree that students use computers at home. Waldorf schools believe that the problems in the industrialized society can not be solved purely on the material level, we should change our way of thinking and change education. A Google executive who sent his daughter to a Waldorf school said he was fundamentally opposed to the idea of needing technical help at the primary level, and that apps on the IPad could help children read or do arithmetic better than absurd.

Whether the iPad should be taught or not is a matter of opinion. However, it is the pros and cons of coexistence, how to avoid weaknesses is our focus to consider the problem.