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January 19, 2012
10:16 • 1 year ago
Tags: Apple education tech apple education event from thenextweb
thenextweb: Apple has today announced iBooks 2 at an education-focused event in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum. iBooks 2 was touted as a “new textbook experience for the iPad” by Apple’s Phil Schiller. (via Apple announces iBooks 2, a new textbook experience for the iPad at Education Event in NYC - The Next Web)  PHOTO CREDIT: THE VERGE You know what would be great? If Apple released software allowing teachers to easily make their own textbooks to put into this app. What if the teacher in this story could just make a book on their own time, with their own content? Wouldn’t that just be brilliant?

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Apple has today announced iBooks 2 at an education-focused event in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum. iBooks 2 was touted as a “new textbook experience for the iPad” by Apple’s Phil Schiller. (via Apple announces iBooks 2, a new textbook experience for the iPad at Education Event in NYC - The Next Web)

 PHOTO CREDIT: THE VERGE

You know what would be great? If Apple released software allowing teachers to easily make their own textbooks to put into this app. What if the teacher in this story could just make a book on their own time, with their own content? Wouldn’t that just be brilliant?

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    I prefer The Gates Foundation’s way of trying to improve the US education system over this. Can we work on the basics...
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    Because I’ll never forget that day in World Geography when that one kid kept referring to the Soviet Union when I’m sure...
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    OOOOH OOOOH, IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME WAY YOU COULD WRITE A BOOK, ON YOUR OWN TIME, WITH YOUR OWN CONTENT! IF ONLY THERE...
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    announced iBooks 2,...“new textbook experience for the iPad,” today. Here’s TNW’s...
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    Today’s Apple Education event kicks off with iBooks 2
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    But where’s the money in that?
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