The iPad is a powerful device, one that can be utilized to truly explore new content, teach, and much more.
As such, Apple is not shy about promoting the tablet as a means to accomplish all of that and more. To help with that, the Cupertino-based company has launched a pair of new landing pages that promote the tablet in education, both in a traditional high school and in a performing arts school.
The first landing page is focused on a high school teacher named Jodie Deinhammer, a science educator that’s working out of Coppell High School in Texas. Deinhammer uses iTunes U, digital textbooks, and the iPad to give her students even more information, and let them interact with the materials in brand new ways.
“The heart unit is important because kids need to know how to take care of themselves and live a healthy life. Heart disease is a huge problem, and it’s something they don’t know a lot about.”
The second landing page is all about the Philadelphia Performing Arts center, which is a String Theory K-12 charter school. On that page, Apple details how the school uses iPads to let educators create custom lessons and expand on learning materials. The performing arts center uses a variety of apps and services, including Apple’s own iWork suite of apps, as well as iTunes U and more.
“Eye-opening lessons like this are the norm at Philadelphia Performing Arts: A String Theory Charter School. As the city’s largest tuition-free K–12 charter school, it offers a STEAM curriculum — science, technology, engineering, arts, and math — that emphasizes academic and artistic excellence equally. And with Apple technology at the core of teaching and learning, teachers design their own curriculum, and students create multimedia projects that reflect their individual creativity and knowledge. It’s how Philadelphia Performing Arts is producing a generation of creative problem solvers.”
As it stands right now, Apple has a variety of school profiles on its site that expand on the iPad’s ability to provide outstanding content and ability to students and educators.
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