Apple is teaming up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities across the US to bring accessible coding to their schools. Beginning this fall, schools supporting students with vision, hearing or other assistive needs will start teaching the Everyone Can Code curricula for Swift, Apple’s powerful and intuitive programming language. Apple created the comprehensive […]
May 17 2018 | Posted in
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Ball State adjunct professor/doctoral candidate Christina Blanch is giving comic-book fans another opportunity to learn about the medium from the writers and artists who know it best. Starting in March, “Social Issues Through Comic Books” will explore exactly that — and, again, anyone can enroll for free. The six-month course plans to examine social issues […]
Everyone’s favorite zombie network AMC is partnering with UC Irvine for a new online college course called “Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC’s The Walking Dead,” which will explore all the deeper thematic implications of AMC’s hit series about creatures with no personality, and also about zombies. In the press release, the vice president of […]
News Corp. has used the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas to reveal the Amplify 10-inch Android tablet for students in K-12, reports The New York Times. The device is a product of News Corp’s new education division, which is using the tablet to gain a physical foothold in educational curriculum market. The Amplify tablets will […]
Mar 6 2013 | Posted in
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The Boston Globe has announced plans to use iPads as part of its Newspaper in Education program. A pilot initiative will see $65,000 in vacation donation funds from Globe subscribers pay for 75 iPads, plus projectors. 50 tablets will go to Boston Public Schools, while the remaining 25 will be assigned to Stoneham High School. […]
Jan 23 2013 | Posted in
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Apple has updated its iMac for certain educational and institutional customers at the Apple Store. A 21.5-inch model is available with a dual 3.1GHz Core i3 and a modern AMD Radeon HD 6750M for graphics, instead relying on reduced storage and memory, along with the slight processor drop, to bring the price to $999. The […]
Apple handled a longstanding question of how Mac OS X Lion’s download-only nature would translate to large-scale licenses for business and education on Friday with a document explaining the strategy. The company will give business users bulk licenses at the same $30 price with at least 20 users. Schools will have to pay for a […]
Jun 19 2011 | Posted in
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has launched its mobile curriculum for Algebra 1, the HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 App, in the App store. A first for K-12 education, the app provides award-winning Holt McDougal Algebra 1 core curriculum enhanced with the interactive capabilities today’s students demand. At $59.99, the HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 App gives school […]
Mint.com wants to help middle schoolers develop good money management skills and have fun while they learn. As part of their parent company Intuit’s financial literacy program that was announced in December of last year, Mint.com is introducing its new online “Quest for Money” game. It provides free tools to help middle school students learn […]
Epson has announced the BrightLink 455Wi interactive projector designed to transform a wall or table into an interactive learning area. With the included wall mount or table mount sold separately, the BrightLink 455Wi interactive projector can be used to transform a wall, whiteboard or table into an interactive learning area. This flexibility is designed to […]