Approximately 800 pupils of the Sint-Pieterscollege, and the Saint-Jozefshandelsschool in the Flemish Blankenberge serve in the coming school year and required an iPad to purchase. The Apple tablet will by the parents to be paid for.
The students at the two schools will from september lessons in which the iPad is used. So will a number of textbooks are now replaced by iPad applications, while individual tools such as a calculator are no longer needed, say the initiators. Nevertheless, textbooks are still not in the ban to be done: for certain pathways were not good digital alternatives.
The St. Jozefhandelsschool says it all with success a trial have been completed with the tablet. This would have proved that pupils are better motivated if they are with a iPad work. Also would the performance improve if the tablet during lessons is used, reports The Newspaper.
The initial cost of the iPad will be provided by the parents to be worn. The tablet may, however, be paid for: three years to get the parents every three months a bill of 40 euro. If the accounts are paid off, the iPad is the property of the student. Students who already have an iPad, these can also in the classroom.
In the Netherlands wants to Tabor College in Hoorn, the netherlands first graders from the school year 2013/2014 a iPad required make purchase. Parents reacted, however, negative, because the iPad is much more expensive than Android tablets. Also, there are complaints that the iPad is not Flash-content, can show.