October 1, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple launches new skilled studying assets for academics and expands world schooling grant program
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA In celebration of World Academics’ Day, Apple at this time launched all-new free classroom assets to assist educators and college students embrace creativity in any lesson, and is celebrating educators via particular collections and choices throughout Apple companies. Moreover, the corporate introduced a significant enlargement of its groundbreaking schooling 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 instructional chief. By way of its work in schooling, the corporate has shared its cutting-edge expertise {and professional} studying assets with hundreds of thousands of scholars and educators, equipping them with the instruments to create new worlds, join in participating methods, and pursue the roles of tomorrow. For instance the attain of its efforts, Apple can also be releasing its first-ever Training Impression Report, which offers a snapshot of the work the corporate is doing to assist academics and learners worldwide.
“At Apple, now we have all the time believed within the energy of schooling to open new doorways and provides individuals the instruments they should construct a greater, extra equitable world,” mentioned Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vp 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 influence recognized at this time — and we’re thrilled to broaden our schooling 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 how Apple merchandise like Mac and iPad empower learners to create and construct on their passions,” mentioned Susan Prescott, Apple’s vp of Training 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 have interaction learners of all ages.”
Supporting Academics and Group Educators with New Instruments
Over the course of Apple’s lengthy historical past in schooling, skilled studying and educator assets have all the time been key components of the corporate’s method, because the efficient use of expertise will help unlock the potential of all learners.
Immediately, Apple is launching new Everybody Can Create assets for academics. Inventive Actions are a group 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 have interaction their college students with out growing their workload. Every exercise strengthens important expertise and will get college students creating rapidly with templates and shareable hyperlinks.
New Inventive Actions embody:
The brand new Inventive Actions are actually accessible within the Apple Training 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 Training Group is increasing its Discussion board collaboration options to 16 further international locations and areas, enabling participation from much more educators world wide.1
As well as, Apple continues to broaden Apple Studying Coach, a free skilled studying program that helps educators coach academics on how you can 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 accessible in eight languages throughout 15 international locations and areas.2 Thus 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 way of Grant Packages
Apple works with colleges and nonprofit organizations world wide to offer grants and different hands-on programming designed to broaden entry to expertise, together with instructional and workforce alternatives. Thus far, the corporate has contributed a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in expertise, instruments, and assets to greater than 200 schooling and group companions. Within the final 12 months alone, Apple has expanded its assist to almost 40 new schooling companions throughout Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.
This work is basically linked to Apple’s Group Training Initiative, via which the corporate offers {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 group’s particular objectives and rework college students’ in-school and extracurricular experiences.
Apple’s in depth schooling initiatives additionally embody Apple Developer Academies and the Apple Basis Program, which deliver coding schooling and expertise coaching to builders and entrepreneurs world wide, together with free assets like Everybody Can Code, Develop in Swift Tutorials, Everybody Can Create, Problem for Change, and Immediately at Apple classes in any respect Apple Retailer areas.
As detailed within the newly launched Training Impression Report, prior to now 5 years, greater than 10,000 academics have acquired skilled studying alternatives via Apple grants. Over that very same timeframe, 500,000 college students in near 2,000 colleges and communities world wide have engaged within the firm’s grant packages. Apple at present 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, offers 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 provide members the instruments to design and pitch apps as options to group challenges. By way of a hybrid expertise that takes place over the course of eight months, members purchase beneficial expertise, together with coding with Swift and presentation methods.
“CodeDoor was created from the concept younger individuals are curious and method studying as a means of discovery, however want the suitable instruments to really feel empowered,” mentioned Karan Dehghani, CodeDoor’s founder. “With assist from Apple, our Creators program teaches learners from migrant households how you can determine and clear up real-life issues via app growth — equipping a brand new era of Germans with the abilities they should construct group and a brighter future.”
Apple can also be deepening its work with present group companions. Since 2020, the corporate has collaborated with the New York Public Library to broaden entry to expertise via in-person and digital coaching courses for learners of all ages and talent ranges, with a give attention to serving to adults develop confidence of their pc expertise and develop extra comfy in at this time’s digital world.
“The world is evolving so quick. One of many ways in which we will help form and guarantee the way forward for libraries is to create areas which might be designed for collaborative, interactive studying,” mentioned 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 in a position to broaden each our programming and our attain to higher serve our group, serving to many extra individuals harness the facility of expertise to study and develop.”
Celebrating World Academics’ Day Throughout Apple
In honor of World Academics’ Day, Apple is celebrating educators world wide via particular collections and choices throughout its companies.
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 hearken 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 youngsters’ books about inspiring educators; and in Podcasts, listeners can discover featured reveals specializing in conversations by and for educators alongside narratives about schooling. Moreover, the Apple TV app contains a assortment of flicks and reveals that spotlight the significance of academics within the lives of pupils.
Internationally, academics can use Group Reservations to guide a Immediately 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. Study extra and request a session at apple.com/at this time/teams.
Moreover, Apple is internet hosting a particular session for academics at Apple Park Customer Middle in Cupertino, California, on World Academics’ Day (October 5). The Go Additional with iPadOS 18 for Training workshop will deliver 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. Immediately, 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 companies 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 very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Discussion board collaboration options within the Apple Training Group are actually accessible 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 US.
- Apple Studying Coach is now accessible for educators in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Eire, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.
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