Learning without textbook but with an iPad, an interactive whiteboard instead of old-fashioned chalkboard and lessons via Youtube. Education is becoming digital.
The choice was difficult last year: keep Elyne of 11 and Axel from 8 to their regular school in Monnickendam? Or stop into The Wonder, the new innovative school in their hometown, where instruction is given on the iPad? ,, Every child is different, "dubde mother Sybrich Willemsma. ,, You have to press different buttons to get the most out of it."
So they left the choice to her children. Elyne already was in group 7 and wanted to finish the primary school there. Axel was excited about the new school and have moved on. ,, The old school was more calm and rhythm. But that was more one size fits all. "Axel was there not stimulated enough, Willemsma. ,, Took Now he gets creative education focused on his learning needs."
iPadonderwijs
This new teaching method has worked well for him. According Willemsma is the progress of Axel by iPadonderwijs more visible and more measurable. ,, He does everything in his own pace, but I - like his teachers -. See if he takes certain levels "She saw that Axel past school year has already done more than the curriculum for one year ,, there is none. limit on these programs. If he wants to learn, which is normal.
Education, which for many years did nothing with the raging digitalization is still searching for a good way to use the new technological possibilities in the classroom. Commissioned by Secretary Sander Dekker thinks Platform Onderwijs2032 about the future of education.
2032
Next month, the platform with the main thrust of his advice to the Secretary of State. For what must children who are out of school in 2032, can? Axel teaches programming example, something he may have much in the future. Willemsma: ,, Sometimes I think: I had Elyne also awarded ".
In 2013 iPadschool first opened its doors. Steve Jobs, the school was named after the founder of Apple and creator of the iPad. The initiative for the iPadschool came from pollster Maurice de Hond, who saw his toddler daughter species thanks to an app lightning had learned by heart.
Direct criticism
There was immediate criticism. Children should only play games and constantly staring at a screen. You should not come up with at Willemsma. ,, I also force myself to put my phone down and turn off the computer. That is simply a daily reality. "And use the tablet to be on all day playing games, can not. That option is off and on the teacher.
In more and more classrooms the chalkboard had been replaced by a digital whiteboard, a large electronic screen that displays information and images are projected. The advance of the IWBs is interrupted by the tablets, thereby providing more individual and less classroom teaching. There are now 25 schools that only provide the educational tablet, but diving the mobile screens also at schools that call themselves iPadschool. Publisher Malmberg predicted last year that the textbook in 2019 is completely replaced by tablets. The curriculum is then digitally available
Basically, a tablet can replace the book, says Professor of Education Liesbeth Kester. One tablet is combined with text image. That may be fine, says Kester, who specializes in multimedia learning: ,, There is nothing wrong with learning through play. But something that is fun, is not necessarily educational. "
Kester, at the University of Utrecht, it warns against the medium - the tablet in this case - to focus. ,, There is still room for some things off on the adaptivity, the idea that the curriculum adapts to the level of the student and vice versa. That self-power is inconvenient for students. Students at the university have difficulty with that, logically that children of primary school age find it difficult. If you do not know what you do not know, do not know which to look. "
Yet Willemsma is especially pleased that the school was founded in Monnickendam. There is another advantage that nothing has to do with the technology: to Axels old school teachers were all women. The new school has just more men in the classroom. ,, I think more diversity in primary school also very important. "
"In five minutes I turn youtubeles together '
An LED is actually a cat flap. Only if a cat pressed hard enough against the hatch, he-opens. An LED turns on only when the voltage is high enough. This is the beginning of a science of Jan Willem Eckhardt on Youtube. The teacher mathematics, chemistry and physics began three years ago with the films when a student had missed a few lessons. He sent him to Khan Academy, the largest US provider of free youtube lessons.
In between
,, The English turned out to be complicated. Then I thought, I could do that "He now has 500 videos are online, and he has set up his own company in tutoring He gives even three days a week just lessons at schools in Soest and Zeist youtube lessons he makes between... businesses by. ,, Give me a topic, give me a camera, give me five minutes and I have been talking to each other, "says Eckhardt.
Digital lessons can be replace the lessons in the classroom? ,,Absolutely not! Research has shown that classes who watch only videos - flipping the classroom is called -. Structurally full or half-point lower score on exams "His classes are really only designed for students after class could use some extra explanation, emphasizes Eckhardt. A plea from a student was the reason the movie about LEDs appeared online. "Sir, can you please put on the Internet this explanation?" Well, I do. "
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