“The first seven ‘Steve JobsSchools’ officially opened their doors in the Netherlands on Wednesday, kicking off an ambitious experiment in child education where Apple’s iPad is the main cog of the learning apparatus, acting as a hub for all daily activities,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider.
“Instead of textbooks, rigid schedules and a highly structured course of study, students are given a portable ‘virtual school’ consisting of a single iPad loaded with specialized apps,” Campbell reports. “The Education for a New Era Foundation (O4NT), which developed the principles behind the teaching method, opened its first set of schools in the towns of Sneek, Breda, Almere, Emmen, Heenvliet and Amsterdam.”
Campbell reports, “The ‘Master Steve JobsSchool’ in Sneek and the ‘Steve JobsSchool Breda’ will incorporate the iPad-driven curriculum at all grade levels, while the other five plan to start first with lower grades and expand upward.”
More info and photos of the students with their iPads in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What lucky students and teachers!
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A progressive society.
First Steve Jobs lesson: how to abandon your newborn baby in the hospital and lie like a piece of shit about it.
We’ve been all young and stupid. You never outgrew stupid.
These Dutch students will learn more in one day than a year in a school full of PC idiots.
It’s looking pretty grim for Microsoft. I give them 5 more years before they start to look like Blackberry.
Someone changed the world…
The first Steve Jobs schools are in Europe. I guess the US educational system does such a great job educating kids that they don’t need these new fangled concepts.
Good for the Netherlands students!!
Not to be outdone by Netherlands forward-thinking education system, U.S. Prison system will roll out Samsung Note for those prisoners convicted for counterfeit crime in the prison’s library. Other prisoners will get the Surface RT or Pro.
Very good!