maurice de hond

intro’d to him here (via Diane):

And the children will choose what they wish to learn based on what they happen to be curious about.

Debbie Hengeveld, 41, found the concept so convincing that she promptly enrolled both of her children, her seven-year-old daughter Freeke and her 10-year-old son Joep. “Children innately want to learn things,” says Hengeveld. “Here they can remain who they are. They aren’t shaped by teachers and lesson plans.”

The initiator of the iPad schools is the well-known Amsterdam public opinion researcher Maurice de Hond, 65, a man with an affinity for digital life. He is proud of the fact that he has known how to program computers since 1965. His daughter Daphne, born in 2009, pointed the way for him.

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digging in..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_de_Hond

http://gerarddrosterij.nl/2013/07/02/zijn-ipad-scholen-een-duivels-plan/

Diane’s tweet: