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Apple launches new resources for teachers, expands education grant program
To commemorate World Teachers’ Day, Apple has introduced a suite of free education resources designed to foster creativity…
Increasing number of American schools are schools cracking down on iPhones
Nine out of ten American teens are iPhone users, but, increasingly, not during school hours, as schools across the country increasingly…
Apple’s Voice Memos, Notes, and other apps said to gain AI transcription capability
With Apple’s Voice Memos, you can use iPhone as a portable recording device to record personal notes, classroom lectures, musical…
Apple’s ‘Swift Student Challenge’ opens in February 2024 with new Distinguished Winners category
Apple’s Swift Student Challenge has given thousands of students around the world the opportunity to showcase their creativity and build…
Apple Vision Pro poised to revolutionize astronomy and stargazing
The Apple Vision Pro spatial computer has the potential to revolutionize astronomy and stargazing. As a subset of its features, Vision Pro…
How Apple lost the K-12 education market to Google
Apple’s share of the K-12 education market has been eroding since at least 2017, when cheap Windows computers and Google Chromebooks…
Apple expands its Community Education Initiative across 99 countries and regions and all 50 U.S. states
Apple’s Community Education Initiative (CEI), which launched in 2019 to bring coding, creativity, and career opportunities to learners…
Apple announces new ‘Apple Learning Coach’ program for educators
Today, Apple is unveiling Apple Learning Coach, a new professional learning program for educators who coach teachers to get the most out of…
California State University to provide Apple iPad Air units to 35,000 students across eight campuses
CSU will offer an iPad Air, Apple Pencil and Apple Smart Keyboard Folio to all incoming first-year and new transfer students who…
39,000 iPads roll out to students and teachers in Edinburgh, Scotland
Every school pupil from P6 to S6 in Scotland’s capital city will receive their own iPad as part of an ambitious education…
UK school network delivers 30,000 Apple iPads for students and teachers
Oasis Community Learning will deliver over 30,000 Apple iPads to primary, secondary, sixth form students, and staff in the UK over the next…
Apple supporter Jamf raises $468 million in U.S. IPO
Software maker Jamf Holding Corp. on Tuesday raised $468 million in its U.S. initial public offering, signaling strong demand for new issue…
IPO of Apple Device management software maker Jamf draws high investor interest
Investor interest is high for the initial public offering of Jamf Holdings, a developer of software that companies and organizations use to deploy…
Apple to discontinue iTunes U after 2021
Apple will discontinue iTunes U at the end of 2021. iTunes U will continue to be available to all existing customers through the 2020-2021 educational year…
Apple soon to release new Schoolwork and Classroom apps focused on distance-learning
Apple will soon launch Schoolwork 2.0 and Classroom 2.0 for Macs and iPads, a significant update to the company’s software that lets teachers manage…
Ontario students get over 21,000 Apple iPads for distance learning
The iPads are pre-equipped with free Rogers LTE wireless data. Apple is providing on-going support to teachers, parents and students…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: President Trump and I both care about creating jobs
Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses coronavirus’ impact on Apple and interests he shares with president Donald Trump, including the creation of jobs in America…
Apple expands Everyone Can Code to bring more coding resources to teachers and students
From December 1-15, Apple Stores worldwide will increase Today at Apple coding sessions to offer thousands of opportunities to celebrate Computer Science Education Week…
Steve Jobs’ legacy? Across the board, scores drop in math and reading for U.S. students
Math and reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in the United States dropped since 2017, and the decrease in reading achievement…
The iPad Operating System: WWDC 2019 included a vast list of releases
WWDC 2019 included a vast list of releases and it’s quite difficult to summarize. The focus is always on software updates but this year the list seems more exhaustive than usual…
Research 7 out of 10 students in higher ed use, or would prefer to use, Apple Macintosh
Jamf today announced the results of an independent survey on higher ed students’ device preference…
Apple and Microsoft are making moves to take share from Google in education
Google has a majority of the U.S. education tech market with 60 percent of all laptops and tablets…
Apple announces expanded coding initiatives in Singapore and Indonesia
Apple today increased its commitment to coding and education in Southeast Asia…
President Trump says he purposely condensed Apple CEO Tim Cook as ‘Tim Apple’ to save time
President Trump said he purposely condensed the name of Apple CEO Tim Cook as ‘Tim Apple’ as a time-saving measure…
President Trump calls Apple CEO ‘Tim Apple’ instead of Tim Cook
In a meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board at the White House on Wednesday…
Apple’s Cook, other CEOs tell President Trump they’re hiring more Americans without college degrees
A less than a four-year degree will get a very good paying job in the new economy…
Watch Live as Apple CEO Tim Cook attends White House advisory board meeting in Washington D.C.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was spotted in Washington D.C. on Wednesday…
White House to host Apple’s Tim Cook, other major CEOs, for workforce advisory meeting co-chaired by Ivanka Trump and Wilbur Ross
The meeting, set to last three hours, will be live-streamed…
Apple CEO Tim Cook joins President Trump’s American Worker advisory board
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in July creating the 25-member board, co-chaired by adviser Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross…
Egypt wants an Apple hub despite ongoing fight over local iPhone prices
Egypt would like to see a more direct physical presence from tech giant Apple…
‘Everyone Can Create’ curriculum now available on Apple Books
Apple today announced its Everyone Can Create curriculum is now available on Apple Books…
Teens now prefer texting to face-to-face communication
Today’s teens prefer texting over in-person communication, use social media multiple times a day…
Apple’s free Schoolwork app now available for teachers
Millions of teachers around the world choose iPad as the best tool to help personalize learning and inspire creativity…
Logitech’s Crayon stylus and Rugged Combo 2 keyboard for iPad schools are so good, Apple should copy them
Apple’s latest iPad push to take on Chromebooks in schools didn’t just come with a new Apple tablet and software…
Apple CEO Cook has been using iOS 12’s ‘Screen Time’ and found he’s on his iPhone too much
Each person has to make the decision when they get their numbers as to what they would like to do…
Who’s really to blame for ‘smartphone addiction’, and who’s responsible for curbing it?
What happens to society when a creator’s creation gets away from them, when the creation can no longer be controlled by the creator?
Apple’s iPad vs. Google’s Chromebook: Which is the real apple for the teacher?
For a company that was once synonymous with education, Apple has lost a lot of ground…
Learning to code with Swift Playgrounds as an adult
Apple thinks it is critically important that everyone learn how to code…
Compared: 2018 iPad versus the Acer Chromebook 11 in the school
Apple’s new iPad is billed as, among other things, an attempt to recapture some share of the education market…
The Xcode cliff: Is Apple teaching kids to code, or just teaching them about code?
Swift Playgrounds is a wonderful introduction to programming…
Apple’s new iPad ad makes ‘Homework’ fun
Apple has debuted a new TV d for the company’s newest addition to the iPad family…
