You’re the Pundit: Does a 7" iPad make sense for the education market?
When it comes to forecasting the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today's topic is Education and the iPad. Last month, Apple introduced iBooks Author and expa...
White MacBook reaches end of life, education sales to cease
Although discontinued for consumer sales last July, the plastic MacBook remained available for sale to educational institutions as a (relatively) low-cost option for schools seeking portable Macs for students. If you were wondering how long that woul...
SkyLight combines iPhones and microscopes
We've seen lots of photo accessories that let you add filters and lenses to your iPhone, but SkyLight is the first to let you add a full-fledged microscope. It's a platform that attaches to a microscope and aligns the phone's camera with the eyepiece...
US government wants schools to embrace digital textbooks
Although they haven't exactly explained how school systems or parents are going to pay for iPads or other tablets for every student, the US government is pushing a new initiative to move from standard printed textbooks to digital textbooks within the...
Hands on with Remarks, a remarkable iPad PDF annotation app
App developer Readdle has been busy lately. A big update arrived recently for its PDF Expert software for iPad, and now the company is also launching a new note-taking and PDF annotation app called Remarks. Here's a hands on look at what the app offers users.
Microsoft Just Bought Wisconsin Students 1,400 iPads As Penance For Their Profiteering
Insult, meet injury. Microsoft has just inadvertently ended up buying 1,400 iPads to schools in Madison, Wisconsin. Bet they wish they were Windows 8 tablets instead. Here’s the skinny. Back in 2009, Microsoft reached a settlement with the state of Wisconsin for about $80...Apple publishes iTunes U support pages
Another piece of the Apple education puzzle has fallen into place. The company has published a set of special iTunes U support web pages to help with questions from users of the new iTunes U app, from teachers who are using the iTunes U Course Manage...
Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Education/Macworld edition!
We're in between big events for the Mac types, we just had the education event last week, and this coming week we have Macworld|iWorld, or as I like to call it, It's So Nice To Finally Meet You In Person World. We'll be chatting specifically about ho...
Colleges enthused as iTunes classes go live
There's a pretty high level of excitement flowing from Thursday's arrival of the iTunes U app. Harvard University is now adding its science + cooking lectures from its school of Engineering and Science for what will likely be an interesting public off...
McGraw-Hill is Apple partner, but still has questions about iBooks
In talking with an executive from Apple iBooks partner McGraw-Hill, it's clear the company has high hopes but also concerns about maintaining consistently high-quality textbooks that are published with iBooks Author. Here are some of the most interesting points from our conversation.
Hands-on: iBooks 2 introduces interface changes, pop quizzes
Apple announced iBooks 2 on Thursday, targeting the education market with an upgrade to the iBooks app for iOS. Though the updated e-book reader is advertised in the App Store as iBooks 2, users who currently have the first...
