Friday, June 28, 2013

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Editorial – 28/06/13, 11:59 – source: Wedding

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The SP wants education minister Bussemaker instructs the Education Inspectorate to monitor the new Steve Jobs Schools. intensive supervision Second MP Jasper van Dijk calls those schools a controversial experiment “and wants the Education Inspectorate will supervise closely. He suggested Minister Jet Bussemaker today written questions about the initiative. The Minister risks according to the SP that students end up in a glorified playground and deployed.

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also gave the PVV against the Steve Jobs-schools are. MP Beertema compared them with the controversial Study House concept that high schools imported from the late nineties. “Apparently we forgot what deception that culminated. Pupils sat the whole day gaming and teachers were not allowed to transfer their knowledge,” said Harm Beertema.

Steve Jobs schools are named after Apple founder Steve Jobs (producer of the iPad). The idea: each child gets an iPad so he can learn in their own way. Students do not sit with their peers in a class, have no fixed locally and no fixed classes. Opinion Leader Maurice de Hond this type of education propagates in the Netherlands. His foundation Education for a New Future (O4NT) announced in April that begin after the summer ten to twelve schools with the Steve Jobs method.

“iPads are a useful tool, but they can the teacher never replace, “said Van Dijk. He asks the minister again to view the brochure O4NT: “How judge you on the idea of ??these schools to leave to the teacher ‘coach’ and let the student choose” his own pathway ‘the’ classroom ‘model and is it allowed that “there are no minimum requirements are formulated in terms of knowledge and skills that the student at the end of each school should control ‘?” Van Dijk thinks that method clashes with established learning and attainment in education.

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