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Apple offers training materials to teachers

updated 03:45 pm EST, Thu November 14, 2002


Business Week talks about , which runs from November 13-15 in Dallas).

"[Apple] has persuaded the teachers' college at the University of Texas, for example, to require every student to buy an iBook and learn how to use it. The university, with Apple's encouragement, has incorporated into its curriculum instruction in how to use laptops to do everything from create assignments to control and monitor the laptops of students. From an OS X-equipped iBook, teachers can turn Internet access on and off, and see what students are working on."

"Apple is pushing training in primary and secondary schools, as well. Today, a day's lessons for teachers comes as part of a package sale to schools. Apple isn't just selling iBooks, it's teaching educators how to use them for everything from math instruction to making movies. Schools can buy a prepackaged cart of 10 iBooks, each preassembled with curriculum software and connected wirelessly through an Airport wireless base station on the cart. The teacher rolls the cart into the classroom, distributes the iBooks, and then packs it all up when the lesson is over. No mess, no fuss."

Apple also recently launched its X for Teachers Program, which gives Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" to all qualifying K-12 teachers in the United States and Canada through December 31, 2002 and its .Mac for Education initiative offers schools the ability to purchase unlimited number of .Mac one-year subscriptions via purchase order at a special education institution price of $60 per user (minimum of 10 subscriptions).


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    GREAT

    I want my kid in a school like that!

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    Apple tries...

    Apple tries, but it know the main reason why schools don't buy Apple products anymore is the excessive price tag on every single Apple machine.

    Even though teacher become interested in Macs, schoolboards won't allow such expenses in their budget.

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    whatever

    i work as the IT director for a small public school district. i would argue that the iBook is a tougher, more reliable and yes, cheaper (costwise) product than anything in the PC world. we have clamshell iBooks that are four years old that still chug along. all of our three year old Dells are doorstops at this point. and maintaining iBooks is TONS easier- please tell me that you really believe any PC maker has better tech support for schools than apple. it is just not possible. 72 hours on average for apple top repair an iBook.

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    re:whatever

    I wasn't aeguing about the fact Macs have a longer life span in the hands of children.

    The problem Apple faces is high acquisition costs. Schools prefer to buy at the lowest price ever even though the machines are total c***.

    That's the problem Apple is facing. I wasn't talking about the quality of Apple products, just the prices...

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    weh weh, re:re:whatever

    cry about the mis communication some more you little f***** baby.

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