Educational Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

PBS releases children's iPad app, interesting usage stats

by Michael Grothaus (May 16th, 2011)

Last week PBS released its free PBS KIDS Video for iPad app. The app features more than 1000 videos from over a dozen PBS KIDS and PBS KIDS GO! series, including Sesame Street, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, and Super WHY! The app itself was purposefully designed so that young kids ...

Select McGraw-Hill educational apps for iPhone and iPad free until 4/16

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 15th, 2011)

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is holding its annual conference this week and in honor of this event McGraw-Hill has dropped the price on select iOS educational applications. The sale started earlier this week and extends until the conference ends on April 16. During this time, ...

Educational institutions: Get your discounted iPad 10-pack

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 20th, 2010)

MacRumors reports that Apple has begun offering iPad 10-packs to educational institutions at discounted rates. The discounts are relatively minor: $20 off of each iPad in a set of 10, or $40 off per iPad if they are ordered with AppleCare. The iPad 10-packs are shipped in a single box, which ...

Was McGraw-Hill omitted from the iPad announcement?

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2010)

Ever since the supposedly leaked confirmation on Tuesday about the iPad, rumors have been flying around about McGraw-Hill and its CEO's appearance on CNBC. Not minutes after posting it, people first assumed that Terry McGraw was in trouble with Steve, and then rumors showed up that the leak may ...

McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2010)

McGraw-Hill's CEO Terry McGraw is obviously very excited that he's been asked to work with Apple on a brand new type of computer, and he just couldn't wait another 24 hours to tell somebody -- he showed up on CNBC today to talk about his company's latest earnings, and he more or less spills the ...

Fun for kids and adults: Pickin' Stix

by Steven Sande (May 16th, 2009)

Pickin' Stix (click opens iTunes) took me back to my childhood in the early sixties, when I had a little cylinder filled with colorful plastic "Pickup Sticks". You'd toss 'em in a pile, and then try to pick them up without disturbing the other sticks. Not only was it a great way to stay engrossed ...

iWriter - easily create study tools for the iPod, .Mac and the web

by David Chartier (Oct 22nd, 2006)

Yea that's right: I said 'study tools' and 'iPod' in the same sentence. iWriter is an interesting little app from Talking Panda that allows you to quickly build projects and study tools for easy viewing on an iPod or the internets. Projects can be uploaded to a .Mac account, and iWriter offers 8 ...