Steve Jobs wanted to revolutionize the educational system in the USA and expressed his disappointment with the current one in front of the American president Barack Obama. Although few US schools use iPads to help students learn, a group of teachers and lawmakers in the Netherlands proposes to build a school where students will only learn using iPad tablets. Steve Jobs saw schools as an environment where students learn using interactive means, and this is what the Dutch intend to do, if their project will be approved and financed.
A panel of four Dutch educators and politicians is proposing to fulfill Steve Jobs' vision and create a school where students are taught with iPads. The proposal will be presented on Monday in Amsterdam. The plan, called Education for a New Era, is designed to help students learn "21st century skills" and push the limits of what can be done in a classroom.
If the project is approved, then it will be the first school in the world where learning will be done exclusively using iPad tablets, but for now everything exists in the form of a simple project. The dream that Steve Jobs had regarding the educational system can be turned into reality, but everything depends on the will of the governments that have before them projects as daring as the one in the Netherlands.
