offer great value, but it’s a mix of the two that
will create the next generation of developers,
engineers, musicians, and technicians who
change our world for the better.
Apple took a unique approach at this year’s
International Society for Technology in
Education (ISTE) Conference, showing off its
iPad and the Everyone Can Code Program,
taking over multiple rooms in a connecting
hotel to create a pop-up classroom experience.
It was the clearest sign yet that the company
was committed to education, and that it had
the tools and the bright ideas to change the
way educators deliver their classes. And with
hyper-aggressive iPad pricing to compete
with Google and its Chromebook, which is
the market leader with more than 30 million
Chromebooks in use in classrooms around
the world, the company should be onto a
winner. It’s a wise move for Apple to pay closer
attention to the education sector, as putting
an iMac and an iPad in every classroom will
not only allow teachers to improve lessons but
give students a reason to go home and ask
mommy for the latest iPad. Tim Cook sure has
a long way to go if he wants to become the
clear leader in the education sector, but there
is no denying iPadOS is head and shoulders
above ChromeOS.
With the right app ecosystem and hardware
to compete, Apple is on the right track. The
firm finally has a vision of where it wants to be,
moving away from knowledge and empowering
users with powerful creative tools, like the Apple
Pencil and now Photoshop on the iPad, but
there are still lessons to be learned. Only time
will tell whether Apple will score Top Marks...