Is what Apple showed us today future of education? The future we’d all been imagining for decades, no less. Harry Potter stuff. More »
It was almost definitely not the first time Apple thought about how to revolutionise textbooks and education, but Joe Peters and a couple of Apple interns won its annual iContest, “sort of an American Idol for great ideas that gives interns a chance to present their best thoughts to executives”, by presenting a plan for cheap digital textbooks to enthusiastic Apple execs back in 2008, two years before the iPad was loosed on the world. More »
You may not be able to afford it, but Apple’s textbook transformation is pretty neat. Its hands-on time, class. Find a cosy seat, use your indoor voices and read along with Gizmodo. Today’s lesson: science! More »
Steve Jobs wanted to do for education what he did for music, phones and tablet computers. Apple’s new textbooks was his Next Big Thing (or one of them). More »
iBooks Author, Apple’s new iPad textbook maker, is purported to be so easy to use that [insert stupid animate object here] could go and make one. So we figured we’d try our hand at it. Even if we won’t win any education or design awards, making a three-page book was a walk in the park. More »
It’s hard to get excited about textbooks, until you see something like this: Apple just made the notecard obsolete forever. No more index cards, no more boxes — no paper. iBooks 2 turns your reading habits into instant study help. More »
Apple’s NYC educational event on Thursday is rumoured to herald its new textbook-service, but who will be leading the initiative? More »
Ahead of Thursday’s NYC education event, Ars Technica reports via a leak source that Apple plans to announce a simpler way for authors to create and publishe e-books as well as iBook’s adoption of the ePub3 standard. More »
Next Thursday’s Apple event in New York is going to feature something related to education. But it’s not a special tablet for students or any other kind of hardware, the New York Times reports. So what is it? More »
