Education

App Camp for Girls kicks off Indiegogo fundraiser

By Peter Cohen, Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 a 9:58 am

App Camp for Girls is a new non-profit organization based in Portland, Ore. hoping to get its feet off the ground through a fundraising campaign through the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.

There's a huge gender disparity in software development - men dramatically outnumber women. The goal is to get tween and teen girls interested in software development by pairing them with women instructors, helping them to build their own apps and hopefully inspire them to pursue careers in software development. They'd like to scale the program nationally, though it's starting locally in Portland, Ore.

13-inch MacBook Pro prices for education customers dropped by $100

By Richard Devine, Thursday, May 30, 2013 a 6:30 pm

Education customers looking for a new Mac could do worse than picking up a 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro following a set of price cuts. $100 has been chopped from the price of both spec 13-inch Pro's, with the cheapest now costing $999.

Turkish Prime Minister visits Apple, and others, ahead of a 10.6 million unit order for tablets

By Richard Devine, Monday, May 20, 2013 a 2:09 pm

10.6 million tablets is a whole heck of a lot, and that's the number that the Turkish Prime Minister is talking about purchasing. Recep Erdoğan is visiting the U.S. on a very large shopping spree, and is visiting Microsoft, Google and Apple personally, before splashing the cash.

Managing 40 Apple TVs in education

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Mar 3, 2013 a 2:50 pm

Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels has shared how he's deployed and continues to manage over 40 Apple TVs in education:

Apple announces 1 billion iTunes U downloads

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 a 2:43 pm

Apple announced today that iTunes U, their podcast-like service that provides for educational content from universities, museums, libraries, and like-minded organizations on iTunes, has topped one billion downloads. According to Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services:

Apple to release as many as 24 new iPad/iPad mini models next week

By Joseph Keller, Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 a 1:46 pm

According to a leaked product list, Apple may launch as many as 24 iPad models, including the new iPad mini at their just-announced October 23 event next week. If accurate, that would likely include storage, color, and radio variants, which is fairly typical for any new Apple product. 9to5Mac scored the list:

Rumored iPad mini event to be focused on iBooks and education as well as new hardware

By chrisoldroyd, Saturday, Oct 13, 2012 a 3:58 am

We heard yesterday from some very reliable sources that Apple would be holding an event to launch the iPad mini later this month; October 23 to be more precise. Some more information is starting to slip out and it appears that the actual event may be focused on Apple’s iBooks store and of course education. The news comes from The Next Web who has now heard this from multiple sources.

Apple kicks off back-to-school promo - get iTunes gift cards for buying iPad or Mac

By Simon Sage, Tuesday, Jun 12, 2012 a 12:04 pm

Apple made a few new initiatives yesterday on the sly amid the WWDC day one insanity, including a new iPad case, but they also started a back-to-school promotion that goes from now until September 21.

Have free access to over 2700 educational videos with Khan Academy for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Apr 9, 2012 a 12:50 pm

Khan Academy is well known in the education world as being a fantastic resource for students to watch videos to learn more about topics covered in class. It's also great for non-students who are just thirst for knowledge and want to study a subject on their own time. And for free. The Khan Academy iPad app is the best way to put learning in your own hands.

Apple Configurator makes it easier to mass deploy and manage iPhone, iPad for business and education

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Mar 9, 2012 a 4:01 pm

Apple has released a new Mac App Store app named Configurator which allows businesses and educational institutions to more easily and massively deploy and manage iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads.You can sync and manage up to 30 devices at a time including updating the OS, managing applications, profiles, backups, and more. Even if you have a large family with many iOS devices (or you work as a developer or blogger who has to test a ton of personal devices), Configurator can make your life a lot easier than iTunes ever did.