Tag: Education
Crowdfunding Friday: Child’s Play, Tech Style
You know what they say—children are the future (which is either terrifying or cause for optimism, depending on your point of view). With that in...
Schaumburg, Illinois, Students To Get 7,000 iPads
It looks like 7,000 kids at the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 in Illinois are going to be pretty happy come next year. The district...
Studio Neat’s Cosmonaut Stylus For The iPad Is Your Best Option
A few weeks ago I wrote a review of Remarks, a PDF-based note taking and markup application for the iPad. In the review I wrote...
Apple Education Store To Receive Update
If you’re an education customer of Apple, reports are coming in that you’re seeing a banner on Apple’s Online Store that says the following: I...
German publishers are planning a competitor for Apple’s textbook initiative
According to a report by the German website heise.de, 27 educational publishers are preparing a joint textbook distribution platform, with plans to unveil an early...
Apple officially announces New York education event
The invites have been sent, the press informed. Apple is officially holding a press event in New York City on January 19, 2012. The topic:...
Apple donates first-gen iPads to teachers in poor schools
New technology is constantly changing, but when new-new technology out paces the old-new technology, we’re left wondering what happens to the older devices on the...
Can the iPad help you achieve better grades? ACU thinks so, we’re not sure
If Apple’s commercials are any indication, the iPad can pretty much be used for absolutely anything, including studying, which isn’t exactly what most people would...
iTeacherBook: Finally! An academic planner for educators!
iTeacherBook iTeacherBook ($4.99) is by the makers of iStudiezPro. If you’ve used any of the iStudiez suite of applications, you know how amazing they are...
Apple releases Lion upgrade information for business and education customers
While Apple’s “Mac App Store only” plan for OS X Lion may be great for most consumers, it doesn’t scale well for business and education...
Evernote Peek shows off Smart Cover integration in new learning app
If you use Evernote, you know that it can keep track of all kinds of things for you. Text documents, images, ideas, snippets of stuff....
Apple highlights ‘Apps for Learning & Teaching’ for the Mac in the App Store
Apple has historically enjoyed a place of prominence in many educational settings. Today, with the iPad 2 and MacBook One-to-One programs, that hasn’t changed much...
Apple turns iPads into iPad 2s for Rutgers class
Apple gets it. They know full well that determining enterprise level success in the future has everything to do with winning over students of today....
Textbooks out, tablets in
Apple started an innovative program called One to One ten years ago, which consists of using the original iBook laptops in schools. Countless schools around...
Academic discounts and the Mac App Store
Could the emergence of the Mac App Store mean the end of such academic discounts? It certainly looks that way, at least if developers decide to sell their applications exclusively through the store.
Frog Dissection: Reliving Junior High Science
Frog Dissection ($4.99) by Emantras, Inc., is an award-winning, educational app that takes you through the process of dissecting a frog. The app is beautifully designed and is easy to use, with both written and audio instructions. Not only does Frog Dissection explain how to dissect, but it also provides additional information on frog organs, the frog life cycle, and other interesting frog facts.
The iPad is making inroads at universities. Oklahoma State begins a pilot program
Cutting-edge teachers see the huge benefits that technologies can have in the class room. From interactive learning tools like smart boards to iPod Touches and...
Would you pay for a MacBook for your grade school children?
Kids need access to computers in schools, no one’s denying that they need to have access to cutting edge tools so that they have the...