Students are constantly adopting new ways to create and share digital content, spark ideas, and be a part of bigger conversations. Apple makes it easy to keep pace with the way they prefer to interact and learn. Which is important, because when they enter university, or the job market after university, students will have to solve problems collaboratively. With Apple technology, they’ll learn how to use digital media to bring their ideas to life and share those ideas with professors, colleagues, or business partners around the world.
Help them find their creativity.
With Apple in the classroom, educators give students the chance to create media-rich projects rather than traditional reports or papers. So students not only learn their subjects, they learn powerful and dramatic ways to communicate their knowledge and ideas.
Every Mac comes with iLife, an award-winning suite of applications for creating digital content. They’re all wonderfully easy to use. And because they’re all designed to work together, as soon as students learn one iLife application, they’re on their way toward learning them all. That means they can jump right in and make movies, create podcasts, work with photos, record and mix music, or build websites and blogs. And easily share all that work with others. Learn more
Open some very interesting doors.
Apple pro applications are the standards in creative industries such as film, television, audio production, and photography. So when students use these applications in school, they’re also getting a head start on highly competitive careers. With training from Apple, your school can even certify students in Final Cut Studio, Shake, Logic
Pro, Aperture, and other pro applications. Then, with a diploma and a certificate that proves their skills, they can walk right into their dream job. Learn more
Collaborative learning, collaborative working.
Collaboration, whether it takes place across a table or across the country, has become one of the most essential skills in the job market. Many features built into Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server are designed to get students working together — on any kind of project.
Students can use video conferences* to brainstorm, hold group work sessions, or even display work in progress. They can connect one Mac to another and share the screen to create work in tandem.
And a wiki can serve as a virtual workspace for teams, where students can compile research, share ideas, and build projects collectively. It’s all safe for K-12 students, too, because parental controls give you full control over who can connect to whom.
Students will thank you.
Parents will thank you.
Even Apple will thank you.
There are many benefits to working with Apple, including the possibility that your institution could be honoured as an Apple Distinguished School. This recognition lets the entire community know you’re doing an outstanding job of preparing K-12 students for academic and eventual career success.
Every school Apple chooses has a bold vision for raising achievement. The students at these schools have 24/7 access to MacBook computers — and in many cases iPods — for mobile learning. These schools are also distinguished by their IT infrastructure, which supports digital content creation and collaboration. They use professional development to help teachers of every subject engage students in new ways. And they regularly evaluate and adjust their programs to continually improve results.
*Broadband Internet access required. Fees may apply.
