K-12 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Bloomberg: Apple event to focus on education

by Steven Sande (Oct 22nd, 2012)

Tomorrow's Apple event might bring one thing in addition to a new, smaller iPad -- it might bring millions of new sales for the device to cash-strapped school systems around the country. Bloomberg reports that the iPad has made huge inroads in the education market where the Mac couldn't. In ...

iTunes U opens up limited accounts to K-12 teachers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 26th, 2012)

During its Q3 2012 earnings conference call, Apple revealed that the quarter was its best yet for educational sales of the Mac and the iPad. To capitalize on this expansion into education, Apple updated iTunes U and now allows K-12 teachers to create private courses for their ...

San Diego school district purchases 26,000 iPads

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 26th, 2012)

San Diego Unified School District is improving its classroom technology by purchasing 26,000 iPads for use in its schools, according to San Diego's 10News. The iPads will cost the district US$15 million and is funded through Proposition S, a money reserve available to help schools purchase ...

Khan Academy releases iPad app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 12th, 2012)

MIT alum Salman Khan has an ambitious plan. He wants to provide anyone, anywhere with a quality education. To that end, he's created a website with over 2,700 K-12 lectures spanning math, history, science and more. Now he's bringing all this online learning to the iPad with his new Khan academy ...

HMH Fuse and the future of K-12 mobile education on the iPad

by David Winograd (May 5th, 2011)

Last September we wrote about a fascinating project that, if successful, may ring in the future of digital curricula for K-12 education. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a major publisher of textbooks with an abiding interest in technology, embarked upon a large scale pilot project in digital ...

Apple Stores welcome kids via Field Trip

by Michael Rose (Oct 10th, 2008)

Letting a bunch of kids loose in a candy store might be a sticky mess, but letting them loose in an Apple Store should be a delightful, brushed metal and glass wonderland of fun. Right? That's the idea behind Apple's new Field Trip program for elementary, middle and high school students and their ...

States add K-12 educational content to iTunes U

by Mike Schramm (Jul 7th, 2008)

Users of iTunes U, the free educational content channel inside iTunes, will have a lot more elementary education material to choose from -- the states of Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah have all added some of their K-12 material to the mix, and a number of school ...

Apple customizing MacBooks for K-12?

by Mat Lu (Nov 9th, 2007)

Here's an interesting little tidbit. Apparently Apple has just landed large contracts to supply MacBooks to local school districts in Kansas City and southwest Louisiana. What's interesting though is that Apple is apparently customizing these MacBooks to meet various security requirements of the ...