Apple debuted the holy grail of textbooks on Thursday in New York City. The books are undeniably cool: they will integrate videos, photos and interactive graphics, make taking notes a breeze and be easy to navigate — all …
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Apple Rolls Out iPad Textbooks, Publishing Software for Teachers
Apple held an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York today. The company’s number one initiative: “Reinventing the textbook,” said SVP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller.
Apple announced iBooks 2, a free app for the iPad …
Liveblog: Apple’s Education Event
Join Technologizer’s Harry McCracken and Techland’s Doug Aamoth at 10am Eastern for live coverage of Apple’s education event being held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York!
FOLLOW-UP: Apple Rolls Out iPad Textbooks, …
Rumor Roundup: What to Expect from Apple’s Education Event
Apple is holding an education-themed event in New York on Thursday – the show begins at 10am, and we’ll have a liveblog churning away right here if you want to follow along. While the company is always tight-lipped about its …
Apple Poised to ‘Digitally Destroy’ Textbooks? Don’t Bet On It
We’ll be there (and live-blogging) at Apple’s “education event” this Thursday, Jan. 19 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, but the scuttlebutt going in has Cupertino announcing a platform to — wait for it — “digitally destroy” …
Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the Print Kind?
The pain points of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they’re heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing in at a burdensome 3.6 pounds. They’re also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student’s limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.
But the …
Are Web-Only ‘Chromebooks’ the Ideal Computers for Education?
The first computer I ever used in a classroom was the Apple II. My first grade teacher, Mrs. Hogan, would line us all up against a wall before walking the class over to the computer lab, a rusty bungalow tucked away in a dark corner of the school.
It was in that lab—which my elementary school shuttled us back-and-forth to for five …
Tiny $25 Computer for Kids Who Want to Learn Real Computing
Ask any British coder of a certain age what it was that got them into the technology business in the first place, and the chances are high that they’ll say it was a childhood encounter with a Sinclair Spectrum, a BBC Micro, or an Acorn computer.
Back in the 1980s, these three UK-designed computers were a massive success story. They …
Must Be Nice: Kindergarteners in Maine Getting Free iPads Now
Ah, to be a kid again. Riding your bike until your legs feel like they’re going to fall off. Popsicles! Free food, no job, minimal attention to hygiene. Using your free iPad 2 to—ho, ho, hold it right there. What free iPad 2?
If you’re a kindergartener in Auburn, Maine, a free iPad 2 is in your future. And if you’re a …
Princeton Review iPad App Makes SAT Prep Bearable
Thanks to a new app from Princeton Review, the iPad finally does something magical: it makes SAT preparation mildly amusing.
Princeton Review’s SAT Score Quest is a free iPad app that provides multiple choice questions in math, writing and critical reading. Users can draw on the right side of the screen like scratch paper and fill in …
Should Cell Phones be Allowed in Classrooms? Most Parents Say Yes
A national survey conducted on the role of technology in education – comprised of 30,000 students from over 6,500 private and public schools – has just been released, and (surprise, surprise!) students really wish they could use their phones in class.
The full Speak Up report, titled “The New 3 E’s of Education: Enabled, …
Should We Teach Web Etiquette In School?
Is there an established Web etiquette? The view of our online environment is unquestionably more Wild West than posh party of refined gentlefolk, but in the few decades of the existence of the Internet, we’ve managed to become a culture of snarling, bitter opinions digitally catapulted at message boards from the safety of our desks. …