schools without books ? Xinhua News Agency only ipad data plan
ipad replace paper books from the
Express hearing, according to the Netherlands the “People’s Daily” reported that the school will be held in August this year’s 11 “Jobs Schools” has been widely supported by the Dutch parliament. 11 schools recruit about 1000 students aged 4-12. These students will not have this job, school bags and books, but everyone has an iPad. The school will provide a virtual learning environment through the iPad, students have the right to learn the content and timing of the decision, the teacher only provide some guidance.
21st century skills
“Volkskrant” the survey shows, in addition to the Dutch neo-liberal political parties outside the party all looking forward to the move. Liberal MP said that the world is undergoing rapid changes, education is not static, you should take full advantage of high-tech. Socialist Party members said that rote learning is outdated, use the iPad better individualized. The school’s founder, said the birth to the present from the iPad three years, has undergone a “baby revolution”, because of its touch screen technology and easy to use features, the child can also be in the digital media environment to grow. Jobs school is taught skills for the 21st century, which may not include a pen writing on paper, but includes ten fingers typing on the touch screen.
textbooks should be interactive
mentioned in the biography of Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs and U.S. President Barack Obama in a meeting talking about the American education. Jobs said the United States is still the classroom teacher on the podium using paper textbooks taught Jobs that textbooks should be filled with interactive, every student can provide specialized content. IPad Steve Jobs wants to become a part of the textbook, he is convinced that this will save expenditure on education.
Earlier this year, Apple launched a digital textbook proposal. Company with three textbook publishers to launch a series can be used on the iPad interactive electronic textbooks. Apple is working to expand the program so that all students in grades can use electronic textbooks, from hardware to achieve Jobs ideal digital classroom.
many places in the “test”
present, including the United States, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, etc., at least 50 countries and regions have or are planning to promote e-books.
? Belgium: The mandatory use of iPad
Belgium San Jose Business School last year suffered a “Apple” storm, the school announced that from September the first day of the new semester, the school teaching force to promote iPad, no longer use paper textbooks and exercise books. Students strongly opposed to no avail, some students have chosen to transfer a protest.
? Switzerland: private primary essential
prestigious private school in Switzerland, more and more courses depends on Tablet PC. In this regard, different people have different views. Swiss Education Group Academic Chair explained that: “The Tablet PC is not just a simple alternative to books, it also provides a full range of interactive learning environment to help teachers better use of resources individualized.”
? South Korea: the year after replacing paper textbooks
Korean Ministry of Education has invested $ 2 billion for primary schools with a Tablet PC, the purpose is to replace all of the 2015 paper textbooks. In addition, the Korean government also hopes to build their own cloud elementary school system in order to establish all the books containing the digitized primary database.
France: The pilot phase of constant controversy
Corrèze council buy iPad free of charge to middle school students. The move during the presidential campaign caused a controversy, has become rightist attacks Hollande evidence of mismanagement. In addition, Isère is also the first quarter of 2011 to a class of pupils trial i-Pad classes; while the city of Angers in the tablet with respect to the primary investment of 65 million euros.
China: Part of the city began a pilot
Shanghai Jiading District Experimental Primary School opened two “Apple classes,” students can use the iPad class, answering questions, doing exercises. However, one lesson time will be controlled with the iPad in about 20 minutes. Students use the iPad curricular and extracurricular time can not exceed one hour. And Beijing, Nanjing and other cities, there are some schools teaching iPad pilot.
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YES
educational resources are more abundant
to iPad, learning machine, represented eBook package is not an ordinary sense of the electronic educational materials, which is the integration of digital educational resources. All learning materials are placed in the “cloud”, as long as there is demand, students can download online.
iPad class is the trend
book package for the world are actively studying and advancing, some developing countries such as Thailand, Argentina, the iPad hands so that they sent to the children into the classroom lessons. China’s emphasis on education is very high, Thailand and Argentina also applies to the way in China.
suitable for today’s students
iPad interactive e-learning features, more suitable for today’s students, because for them, the electronic device is a part of everyday life.
NO
causing the machine addiction
eBook package as an electronic product, people on the high-tech produce dependence, abstract thinking ability greatly weakened, with the electronics, the children do not back up the basic formula, a simple calculation is not done, original human brain activities carried out, and now all been replaced by machines, this is not a good thing.
reduce human exchanges between
In addition to facilitating the introduction of iPad
teacher, fueling oriented education and reduce student exchanges between teachers and students and between the outside, I really can not think of any good. Moreover, the technology is now becoming more and more a fool, through the iPad itself does not improve people’s ability to use new technology products.
denied student imagination
now some schools use of information technology, “browse” a lot of time, but “stay” time limited. Greater understanding of information technology, show too much, it may obliterate the imagination of students. Not all courses, all classes need “across the board” with information technology, should have a choice.
? Observation
Why do the children of Silicon Valley iPad class?
invention iPad Silicon Valley elite and the general idea seems inconsistent. According to “The New York Times” reports, eBay’s chief technology officer of his children to a “low-tech school” to learn, other Silicon Valley giants such as Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard employees have also send their children to this school.
Waldorf School in Los Altos, Calif., allowed to use the computer, it is a teaching tool pen, paper and knitting needles, and occasionally there is mud. This school does not even agree with the students use computers at home. Waldorf believes that industrialized societies problems we can not simply be addressed on a physical level, should change our way of thinking, changes to the educational start. A daughter into the Waldorf’s Google executives said that he fundamentally opposed to the need for technical assistance at the primary stage of the concept, i-Pad applications on can better help your child to read or do arithmetic argument is preposterous. (Integrated Commerce Department Website)
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