“Previously reserved just for college and university material, iTunes U is now opening its doors to content suitable for students between kindergarten and grade 12 as well as their parents and teachers,” Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider.
“Like the post-secondary material, the iTunes material for K-12 includes audio and video podcasts as well as text that gives students additional course material and adults more information about school programs,” Malley reports.
“The initial launch lineup includents content from school departments in Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Utah,” Malley reports.
Full article, which also contains briefs including, “Apple faces backdating scandal once again,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TeachMac” for the heads up.]
So where are the FUD merchants? They love to read their own rantings & ravings about Apple’s so called expensive hardware, but where are they when some of that money is spent to provide for the countries future through education to the masses?
iTunes U is accesible on PC’s as well……..So bring it on! big fat FUD meisters!!!!! JUST bring ON!!!!!
Fart in the face of a fud meister if you love Apple inc!
Here is what Apple really needs to do. Build a tablet Mac that is targeted toward replacing the load of textbooks and binders that students around the country are compressing their backs carrying to, from and around school all day.
This is a serious issue and one that Apple is uniquely positioned to solve. Many schools do not even provide lockers for students. You would be amazed at how heavy most of these back packs are.
Apple could contract with textbook publishers to provide textbooks for the tablet, promote development of interactive lessons, provide the iTunes materials mentioned in the article, and develop a version of iWork integrated into the learning system as well as electronic submission of homework.
Apple could also develop an integrated suite of teacher tools that could allow correction of student work including the ability to circle and otherwise mark errors with finger gestures, score and forward to a “gradebook”,etc.
Likewise, students could use finger gestures to write out math equations w/o an equation editor – an improvement sorely needed when students are required to respond to math questions on computers.
Apple could provide a complete end-to-end solution in which the kid’s entire school life is built on a single device automatically backed up wirelessly on a school server so that even if a student loses his work it is still retrievable.
What a huge market and a great service to kids whose backs are being damaged daily by the books and material schools require students to carry.
Yeah, I want to see what sort of finger gestures students come up with….