“Ivanka Trump, senior adviser and daughter to President Trump, joined Apple CEO Tim Cook in a visit to an Idaho school district Tuesday to see how it was integrating technology into education,” Chris Mills Rodrigo reports for The Hill. “Apple has donated iPads to students and Macs to teachers in schools in the Wilder District.”
“The stop was one of many in Ivanka Trump’s tour as part of her work with the National Council for the American Worker,” Rodrigo reports. “White House spokesperson Lindsay Walters noted that in July Apple signed the administration’s Pledge to America’s Workers, ‘committing to train an additional 10,000 people as part of their ongoing initiatives with community colleges in the U.S.'”
Visiting the Wilder School District today with Tim Cook to learn firsthand how they are preparing America’s future workforce using @Apple technology to transform the learning environment and personalize students’ educational experiences based on their unique needs and strengths!
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 27, 2018
Thank you Wilder, Idaho and @Apple!
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— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 27, 2018
Great being with @Tim_Cook in Wilder, ID today and meeting so many exemplary students, teachers and administrators. @Apple’s public-private partnership illustrates the power + potential of #Tech to revolutionize education and prepare America’s students for success! pic.twitter.com/AmjuxvOsl1
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 27, 2018
Thank you for a wonderful morning, Wilder Elementary! Your leadership and commitment to reinventing the classroom with technology is a great example of what’s possible. We are proud to support your mission. pic.twitter.com/tqhDzE7Fad
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) November 27, 2018
.@IvankaTrump and Apple CEO Tim Cook visit school in Idaho where Apple has invested in technology to help kids learn. https://t.co/vN9BjW67gR pic.twitter.com/Z4jd3VqgQn
— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 28, 2018
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“Several students lined up inside Wilder Elementary School on Tuesday morning each held up an iPad displaying a letter of the alphabet to spell out the word “welcome” as one of their two special visitors walked through the school’s doors,” Cynthia Sewell reports for The Idaho Statesman. “Cook and Trump then embarked on a nearly hourlong tour of the school, visiting classrooms and watching students demonstrate their technological skills on the handheld devices Apple provided the school district nearly three years ago.”
“‘In the past year I have visited 20 states across the country … these are states that are often called the laboratories of innovation,’ Trump said during her visit. ‘You come into districts where you have superintendents like [Wilder] Superintendent [Jeff] Dillon who is so deeply passionate about bringing innovation and making a system that works for his or her students,'” Sewell reports. “Cook gestured around the classroom: ‘You notice in this classroom there is no teacher, there is a mentor. It makes the learning process for students very different because in a classroom where there is a mentor, people can move at different rates. This is life. We all learn things at different rates.'”
“‘What that allows is you can push the person who learns faster onto building the next skill and the person who needs a little more help can get a little more help,’ Cook explained. ‘This school and the leadership in this school are doing just an incredible job of bringing that to life,'” Sewell reports. “Trump agreed. ‘This is what is so exciting, the harnessing of technology in conjunction with incredible educators to create this type of really personalized learning experience … [to] prepare students for a world where digital literacy is absolutely critical but at the same time enable them to move at their own speed.'”
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MacDailyNews Note: Information about the “Pledge to America’s Workers” — including Apple’s 10,0000-person commitment along with other companies’ pledges — is available via the White House here.
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