October 1, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple launches new skilled studying assets for academics and expands world training grant program
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA In celebration of World Academics’ Day, Apple in the present day launched all-new free classroom assets to assist educators and college students embrace creativity in any lesson, and is celebrating educators by means of particular collections and choices throughout Apple providers. Moreover, the corporate introduced a significant growth of its groundbreaking training grant program into 100 new colleges and communities, reaching college students and academics throughout six continents with free grant-funded STEAM programming.
Over the previous 4 many years, Apple has been a dedicated academic chief. By means of its work in training, the corporate has shared its cutting-edge expertise {and professional} studying assets with tens of millions of scholars and educators, equipping them with the instruments to create new worlds, join in participating methods, and pursue the roles of tomorrow. As an example the attain of its efforts, Apple can also be releasing its first-ever Schooling Impression Report, which supplies a snapshot of the work the corporate is doing to assist academics and learners worldwide.
“At Apple, we now have all the time believed within the energy of training to open new doorways and provides individuals the instruments they should construct a greater, extra equitable world,” stated Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice chairman of Setting, Coverage, and Social Initiatives. “We’re blown away to see how tomorrow’s coders, creators, innovators, and leaders are utilizing Apple expertise and assets to make their impression identified in the present day — and we’re thrilled to develop our training work into much more communities.”
“We’re impressed by the unbelievable work popping out of school rooms and communities throughout the globe, and the myriad of the way Apple merchandise like Mac and iPad empower learners to create and construct on their passions,” stated Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice chairman of Schooling and Enterprise Advertising. “Our new Inventive Actions for early learners and college students make studying straightforward and enjoyable, and most significantly, give educators fast instruments to interact learners of all ages.”
Supporting Academics and Group Educators with New Instruments
Over the course of Apple’s lengthy historical past in training, skilled studying and educator assets have all the time been key components of the corporate’s method, because the efficient use of expertise may help unlock the potential of all learners.
Right this moment, Apple is launching new Everybody Can Create assets for academics. Inventive Actions are a set of fast, interactive, and enjoyable lesson concepts that empower educators to sprinkle creativeness and originality into their studying plans. Inventive Actions for Early Learners (ages 4 to eight) and Inventive Actions for College students (ages 8 and up) allow academics to interact their college students with out rising their workload. Every exercise strengthens important expertise and will get college students creating shortly with templates and shareable hyperlinks.
New Inventive Actions embrace:
The brand new Inventive Actions are actually out there within the Apple Schooling Group, knowledgeable studying hub with greater than 1 million members the place educators can discover inspiration, share assets, and join with friends. This week, the Apple Schooling Group is increasing its Discussion board collaboration options to 16 extra nations and areas, enabling participation from much more educators all over the world.1
As well as, Apple continues to develop Apple Studying Coach, a free skilled studying program that helps educators coach academics on find out how to get essentially the most out of Apple merchandise. With new classes and the power to register and take part at any time, Apple Studying Coach is now out there in eight languages throughout 15 nations and areas.2 So far, greater than 4,000 licensed Apple Studying Coaches have guided practically 100,000 academics, impacting 2.4 million college students.
Reaching College students and Academics on Six Continents By means of Grant Packages
Apple works with colleges and nonprofit organizations all over the world to supply grants and different hands-on programming designed to develop entry to expertise, together with academic and workforce alternatives. So far, the corporate has contributed a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} in expertise, instruments, and assets to greater than 200 training and neighborhood companions. Within the final 12 months alone, Apple has expanded its assist to just about 40 new training companions throughout Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA.
This work is essentially linked to Apple’s Group Schooling Initiative, by means of which the corporate supplies {hardware}, scholarships, monetary assist, educator assets, and entry to Apple consultants to colleges and organizations in under-resourced communities. Apple collaborates with every accomplice group to customise and improve programming to assist the neighborhood’s particular targets and remodel college students’ in-school and extracurricular experiences.
Apple’s intensive training initiatives additionally embrace Apple Developer Academies and the Apple Basis Program, which carry coding training and expertise coaching to builders and entrepreneurs all over the world, together with free assets like Everybody Can Code, Develop in Swift Tutorials, Everybody Can Create, Problem for Change, and Right this moment at Apple classes in any respect Apple Retailer places.
As detailed within the newly launched Schooling Impression Report, up to now 5 years, greater than 10,000 academics have obtained skilled studying alternatives by means of Apple grants. Over that very same timeframe, 500,000 college students in near 2,000 colleges and communities all over the world have engaged within the firm’s grant applications. Apple presently helps greater than 200 colleges and nonprofit organizations — a quantity that continues to extend.
Forging New Partnerships and Deepening Present Work
CodeDoor, one in all Apple’s newer companions, supplies coding and workforce preparedness coaching for migrants all through Germany. Apple helps the group’s Creators program, which makes use of Everybody Can Code assets and Swift Playgrounds to offer contributors the instruments to design and pitch apps as options to neighborhood challenges. By means of a hybrid expertise that takes place over the course of eight months, contributors purchase worthwhile expertise, together with coding with Swift and presentation strategies.
“CodeDoor was created from the concept younger individuals are curious and method studying as a means of discovery, however want the fitting instruments to really feel empowered,” stated Karan Dehghani, CodeDoor’s founder. “With assist from Apple, our Creators program teaches learners from migrant households find out how to establish and remedy real-life issues by means of app improvement — equipping a brand new technology of Germans with the abilities they should construct neighborhood and a brighter future.”
Apple can also be deepening its work with current neighborhood companions. Since 2020, the corporate has collaborated with the New York Public Library to develop entry to expertise by means of in-person and digital coaching lessons for learners of all ages and talent ranges, with a concentrate on serving to adults develop confidence of their laptop expertise and develop extra snug in in the present day’s digital world.
“The world is evolving so quick. One of many ways in which we may help form and guarantee the way forward for libraries is to create areas which are designed for collaborative, interactive studying,” stated Brandy McNeil, Ph.D., the New York Public Library’s deputy director of Department Packages & Companies. “With the instruments and assets solely Apple can present, we’ve been capable of develop each our programming and our attain to raised serve our neighborhood, serving to many extra individuals harness the ability of expertise to be taught and develop.”
Celebrating World Academics’ Day Throughout Apple
In honor of World Academics’ Day, Apple is celebrating educators all over the world by means of particular collections and choices throughout its providers.
The Nice Instruments for Academics assortment within the App Retailer highlights classroom and lesson-planning necessities that educators can use to assist their work. On Apple Music, customers can take heed to a assortment of learning-based albums and playlists highlighted all through the Children and Household classes; on Apple Books, readers can discover a assortment of nonfiction and children’ books about inspiring educators; and in Podcasts, listeners can discover featured reveals specializing in conversations by and for educators alongside narratives about training. Moreover, the Apple TV app contains a assortment of films and reveals that spotlight the significance of academics within the lives of pupils.
The world over, academics can use Group Reservations to guide a Right this moment at Apple session for his or her college students at their native Apple Retailer, deciding on from greater than 20 subjects nice for educators and their college students to discover ways to code, create, and get essentially the most out of Apple merchandise. Be taught extra and request a session at apple.com/in the present day/teams.
Moreover, Apple is internet hosting a particular session for academics at Apple Park Customer Heart in Cupertino, California, on World Academics’ Day (October 5). The Go Additional with iPadOS 18 for Schooling workshop will carry collectively licensed Apple Studying Coaches and educators from throughout California for hands-on demos utilizing iPad Professional and Apple Pencil Professional.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Discussion board collaboration options within the Apple Schooling Group are actually out there in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Eire, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA.
- Apple Studying Coach is now out there for educators in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Eire, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA.
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