Friday, September 13, 2013

iPad education and / or Homer - Wedding

Marc van Dijk – 13/09/13, 22:00

© Reuters. A student of Master Steve Jobs School in Sneek shows his tablet.

In the Philosophical Team two thinkers analyze a current issue. Is the iPad a school much needed innovation or technology in the classroom affects the essence of education?

  • faith in new technology will attract religious

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iPad school, Steve Jobs-school, or – to Dutch fan – ‘Maurice de Hond-school called. Seven are this school year started. Officially under the title “Education for a new era.” In many other schools experiments have been conducted with iPads and other tablets. Proponents see it as a necessary modernization. But is this a step in the right direction

Bart Jan Spruyt, publicist and historian, history and social studies teacher since 2009 at a high school: there has been a debate on the “Not long ago new learning ‘, the method that students guide their lesson shows together. Dijsselbloem The commission has since critical notes about cracked. The assumption that a student from self interest in necessary knowledge, has proved unrealistic. teacher as “coach” who no one prescribes or imposes, is disastrous for good education.

“The iPad-school ‘new learning’ in a new guise. The answer to this question is actually quite simple: education is still a form of knowledge. There is a curriculum. There are things that we as a society believe that children need to know. Things that the teacher knows, and the student is not. That may sound old-fashioned, but it is still the core. It does not matter that you use interactive teaching methods, for example by students to collect information themselves. But that is only possible if students have some prior knowledge about a topic. How would they find the information they need to assess different “

Alicja Gescinska, philosopher and postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University:”? Obviously there is a curriculum. Obviously, the core task of teaching the transfer of essential knowledge. But there are many ways to do this, and I think the new and social media can play there.

“It should be framed educational. An important role in I have the impression that the controversy around the ‘iPad’ schools rather than framework that revolves around the fact that new and social media have an important place in the learning environment. It’s not the ‘what’ but the ‘how’ we do not come true. But it does not make sense to keep out of the classroom, for fear that education through being lost. “

technique as something hostile or malignant

  • iPad trial led to chaos. The students sat all day Facebooking and emailing

Isolated islets
Spruyt: “I do not agitate against technique If students get an e-reader instead of a stack of books, is best What is important is that under it.. guise of technological innovation, the essence of education is undermined. Education requires discipline, a certain structure and jointly applied concentration. A lesson is a social event. That destroyed you recreate isolated islands that sit behind their tablet and things allowed by pupils do they like themselves.

“Students would all have to learn that you can not always do what you want to do at school. A certain dullness or toughness is an essential part of the curriculum. Moreover, possible alternatives are not equivalent: watch a movie does not outweigh a struggle with a classic text “

Gescinska”. That’s right, but it is improper to the value of new sources, such as Wikipedia or to trivialize. introductory documentary, I myself have learned more of historical documentaries than my history lessons. When I was at university a drawing of the Algerian war was to write later I had obviously handle a lot of text, but at least I was already familiar with the topic.

“The new and social media are just as superficial or profound as their users also:. those media are not a substitute for ordinary life, but a segment of it, and that will only get stronger all politicians who matter sit on Twitter and the Pope also but no one thinks of them…. : so, now I no longer among the people to come and enter into dialogue No, they use social media in a real relationship

Essence of Education Gescinska: “The fear of the decay of civilization in the introduction of new techniques of all time. When the pen drove the dip pen, also seemed that the beginning of the end to be “

Spruyt:”. This phenomenon is known to me, but this is essentially different. This form of learning is against the essence of education, and therefore causes a real break with the past.

“From a colleague at Erasmiaans College in Rotterdam I heard that the first results after an iPad experiment were downright depressing at that school It led to chaos in the classroom, students sat all day Facebooking and emailing And she never once thought of himself… we read an hour now Homer Strange huh The school has the tablets? done from the back door.

“That such signals do not get serious consideration, I find downright scary. The renewal must and will, it will attract religious. This is evident from the name “Education for a new era.” This expresses a sacred, almost utopian faith in technological progress and the emergence of a better world

Blind optimism
Spruyt:. “Of course changing instructional and manners, but the essence you can not attack.’s dedication, knowledge, disciplined social interaction. This is likely to be sacrificed to the blessings of the technological revolution. The damage will be greater than the profit. Unless we find no objection that this is the final breakthrough is the mediocrity as a standard “

Gescinska”. I myself am very skeptical about blind optimism, but I fear that the damage will be as even more we have the technological innovations that make the world into what it is. want to keep it. When the world changes so quickly, outside the classroom, it is irresponsible to education did not somewhat to prelude.

“Claiming that dedication and social interaction be offset by the technology, me too pessimistic. Man can not be so easily tarnish in its essence. When I look at myself, I am now on Facebook and iPad further from my neighbor and myself removed? Of course not. On the contrary, a metered usage tickles my mind. I leave indeed occasionally my son less than two years tinkering on my iPad, and I think it’s amazing what he can with that. He trains his fine motor skills and learning puzzle. “

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