Apple Event Education : New iPad & All The News From The Stage

Let's take a field trip

- Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan

As Tim Cook took center stage for Apple’s first event of the year, he began to lead a discussion on education, saying “At Apple, we care deeply about education because we love kids and we love teachers.” Cook stated that education has been a huge part of Apple’s identity for 40 years, explaining “We had a unique insight into how technology could inspire kids to unleash their creative genius. And we believed that technology could help teachers deliver a unique and personalized learning experience to all kids. We’ve never stopped believing this, and we’ve never stopped working on it.”

Taking it out of California to host at a high school in Chicago, Apple promised to focus its latest products toward an education market that has, until now, been dominated by Google and Microsoft. As part of the event’s introduction, Cook discussed some of the education projects that Apple has been working on, including a 10-year study called “Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow” in which the company has hugely increased the engagement of students and teachers thanks to its products. Similarly, Apple has also made the Everyone Can Code initiative available in its retail stores for those who want to learn to code with Swift Playgrounds.

Although the Keynote was condensed into just over an hour, Apple certainly didn’t fail to impress with a whole host of new software and hardware, most notably the first look at a new low-cost 9.7-inch iPad that had been rumored for some time.

THE LOW-COST 9.7-INCH iPAD