Education Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Steve Jobs subject of new children's book

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2012)

The Loop spotted a new book over at Amazon called "Who Was Steve Jobs?" that appears to be a children's book, of all things. It's part of a series of books designed to tell kids about famous historical figures and why they're so admired or ...

Inkling to sell iPad textbooks in over 900 college bookstores

by Mike Schramm (May 15th, 2012)

Inkling is an e-book publishing platform that's currently running an app on the App Store, and while Apple has been making an official push for more textbooks in iBooks, Inkling is strengthening its own holdings. The company has made a deal with ...

Kanex ATV Pro connects Apple TV to VGA projectors

by Steven Sande (May 10th, 2012)

Kanex has just released the US$59 ATV Pro HDMI to VGA adapter. This little video adapter may well be a hit with teachers and presenters who want to mirror their iPad screens to VGA projectors -- without tethering the iPad to a clunky VGA ...

Apple to issue 150 student scholarships to attend WWDC 2012

by Dave Caolo (Apr 25th, 2012)

Apple is looking to reward outstanding student developers with a trip to WWDC 2012. Full- or part-time students over the age of 13 may apply. Apple's decision will be based on the following: Technical ability Creativity of ideas ...

MacTech NYC Boot Camp to include TUAW/TidBITS panel

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th, 2012)

On April 18 and 19, the MacTech live event series will be coming to the Big Apple. The Park Central Hotel in New York will be hosting MacTech Boot Camp and MacTech In Depth: OS X Server Administration over those two days, giving IT professionals ...

On buying iPads for your kids

by Steven Sande (Mar 19th, 2012)

When it comes to talking about buying iPads for kids, I'm probably the last person to ask since I have no children. That's why it's a good thing that Wired's Brad Moon wrote a lovely post in which he explains his reasons for purchasing an iPad ...

McGraw Hill VP bullish on $399 iPad 2 for students

by Steven Sande (Mar 13th, 2012)

At Apple's education keynote in January, McGraw Hill Education was announced as one of the partners in the initiative to move textbooks to a digital format. The company's vice president of new ventures, Vineet Madan, is impressed with the power and ...

Scholastic releases iPad e-reader app for kids

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 9th, 2012)

According to PaidContent, Scholastic brought its catalog of children's books to the iPad. The recently updated Storia app taps into Scholastic's ebook store which boasts of over 1,000 children's titles. The titles in the bookstore are organized by ...

Inkling launches Inkling Habitat for textbook publishing

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2012)

iBooks Author was announced last month to a lot of hoopla, but left many ebook publishers wanting a textbook authoring tool that would streamline the entire book publishing process and have more features. Today, Inkling announced their new online ...

Apple now offering education model 13-inch MacBook Air for $999

by Chris Rawson (Feb 10th, 2012)

Almost immediately after discontinuing the white plastic MacBook once and for all, Apple has replaced it with a MacBook Air designed for educational sales. The 13-inch model costs the same US$999 as the MacBook it replaces. This 13-inch MacBook ...

You're the Pundit: Does a 7" iPad make sense for the education market?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 8th, 2012)

When it comes to forecasting the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today's topic is Education and the iPad. Last month, Apple introduced iBooks Author and ...

US government wants schools to embrace digital textbooks

by Steven Sande (Feb 2nd, 2012)

Although they haven't exactly explained how school systems or parents are going to pay for iPads or other tablets for every student, the US government is pushing a new initiative to move from standard printed textbooks to digital textbooks within ...

iPads for Madison, WI schools purchased with Microsoft lawsuit settlement funds

by Steven Sande (Jan 30th, 2012)

A total of about 1,400 iPads are heading to schools in Madison, Wisconsin during 2012, indirectly paid for by none other than Microsoft. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the school district is acquiring iPads as they are less expensive, ...

Apple publishes iTunes U support pages

by Steven Sande (Jan 23rd, 2012)

Another piece of the Apple education puzzle has fallen into place. The company has published a set of special iTunes U support web pages to help with questions from users of the new iTunes U app, from teachers who are using the iTunes U Course ...

Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Education/Macworld edition!

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 22nd, 2012)

We're in between big events for the Mac types, we just had the education event last week, and this coming week we have Macworld|iWorld, or as I like to call it, It's So Nice To Finally Meet You In Person World. We'll be chatting specifically about ...

iTunes U graduates into separate iOS app

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 19th, 2012)

Announced today at Apple's education event, iTunes U -- a long-standing feature of the iTunes Store -- is now a separate application (universal) for iOS devices running iOS 5. Since 2006, iTunes U has been a way to electronically distribute class ...