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January 2021 The Technology Industry did well in the otherwise annus horribilis of 2020. Remote teaching, learning, business and personal teleconferencing, combined with the need to outfit and/or upgrade home offices meant that sales of computing equipment finished well after a short-lived COVID-induced slowdown. Preliminary indications to the third quarter show that Lenovo, GP, and Dell still dominate the Windows-compatible market; Apple is increasing market share, and Chrome books are now dominating the bargain basement ultramobile market. Indeed, if the…
Apple Japan is trying to get the students on board as they get ready to start school in April. Japan is one of the few countries where the students start school in April instead of September. From 14 February until 22 May, students and educators can get a Mac App Store card with the purchase of a machine. The card with a face value of ¥10,000 JPY is in addition to the normal academic discount. According to Apple’s website, it…
Everyone one knows that Steve Jobs had several industries that he wanted to revamp and change for the better. Education was one of those industries. Apple made huge headway into fulfilling Steve Jobs’ dream on 19 January with the introduction of iBooks 2.0, Ibooks Author, iTunes U and of course, the text books section of the iTunes Book Store. Now it appears, that the US government is also getting on the band wagon with some announcements of their own. The…
Apple has finally created a support website for the iTunes U. Introduced along with Apple’s Education Initiative last week in New York City, iTunes U is intended to give students of all ages materials which are downloadable to their iPads as well as instructurs the tools with which to reach the student easily and interactively. Lack of a real support structure has been hindering usage of the facility so far, however Apple eliminated that issue yesterday. You can check out…
The Video from this mornings Apple Event in New York City is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. The event was held at 10am and was primarily focused on Apple’s push for education, introducing iBooks 2.0, iBooks Author, and the iTunesU App, You can download the latest video or any of the previous events from the iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-keynotes/id275834665
On January 19th, 2012, Apple Inc. is scheduled to have an education related announcement in the heart of New York City. While many in the world are speculating that apple is trying to “destroy the textbook industry”, We suspect that they are just following up on several lines of thought. First, Texas was the first in the nation to embrace to totally digital textbook idea. It currently saves the state 2 billion USD per year in text book costs. If…
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Oregon Trail Game, Jessica Lussenhop has written what is likely the most thorough history of the game and the three men who created it. While the game started out as just a lowly text type mainframe based game, it became an icon of American Education over the past 30 or so years of its history once the graphical version was produced by MECC in 1985. You can read…
by Don Grout II Alive Volume 1 Number 1March / April 1993 Computer software exists for almost every educational application. There is software for science simulations, math drills, word processing, accounting simulations, history tests, geography, music, art, and foreign languages. But is there something inexpensive (or free) that an ordinary classroom teacher, with minimum computer skills, can use for one-on-one computer study or review in virtually any subject area? Absolutely-if you can enter data and have a little familiarity with…
By Lynne RyderAustralian Apple Review Vol 4 No 3 PP32-33 Another topic which often causes difficulty for students, yet lends itself elegantly to the computer, is number bases. I am including two short programs – the first written by one of my students, Sandi Steeple which generates numbers for bases less than 10, while the second comes from an old, but still very useful book, ‘Fifty Basic Exercises’ by Jean-Pierre Lamoiter (published by Sybex) and generates numbers for bases greater…
II Computing Magazine V1N1October / November 1985 by PAUL COHEN About the Author Paul Cohen is a free-lance writer specializing in business and technology. He is also the former editor of the Atari Connection Magazine. Online Education More than 100 years ago, the first correspondence schools brought the opportunities of an emerging industrial society to those who never had a chance to learn much academically. For people in remote locations, often bound to farms or factories, getting an education through…
by Ted Perry Call-A.P.P.L.E. MagazineJanuary 1980 V03N01 PP35-36 This is a progress report on the project reported upon in the July/August issue of CALL-A.P.P.L,E. As you probably recall from the original article, the Kyde Tyme Project and the CHIP Project arc computer assisted instruction grants funded by Title IV-C to develop computer assisted instruction on the Apple Microcomputer. Our tasks arc to develop a CAI author Language for the microcomputer; add graphics to the format that in the past used…
