Transforming Teaching and Learning.

Find out how Apple technology can help you make a difference.

• Raising Pupils’ engagement and achievement.
  By engaging pupils through the tools and media of their generation, learning becomes a more relevant and interesting experience. Pupils become more motivated and feel a stronger connection with their subjects.
  
  As for educators, they are equipped with more powerful and flexible tools to teach, communicate and integrate technology into the curriculum. With Apple Learning Labs, any teacher can easily bring the latest technology to any classroom, eliminating the need for rigid lab schedules, and extending teaching and learning. Pupils can thus learn more, anywhere and anytime

• Unleashing pupils’ productivity and creativity
  With the Mac, pupils have a robust set of learning tools at their fingertips. They can communicate and collaborate with each other; connect to external devices such as cameras, scientific probes or projectors; and copy their work onto CDs or DVDs.
  
  And with included software, such as the award-winning iLife digital authoring suite, students can express themselves by creating movies, photo books, music, websites and podcasts; manage their calendars and to-do lists; access a graphing calculator; and much more. These innovative Apple solutions foster the development of the creative and critical thinking skills which are so important for today’s learners.

• It just works.
  The Mac operating system Mac OS X provides a familiar interface, consistent menu commands, and tight integration between applications. It has never been so easy to connect to peripherals such as printers, digital cameras and wireless networks. Since the software on every Mac is created by the same company that makes the Mac itself, you get a completely integrated computer that’s as secure, stable and powerful as it is elegant and easy to use, which means more time to focus on teaching and learning.

• The most compatible technology ever
  Whether you use Windows for your administrative staff or UNIX in your IT department, or prefer the stability and simplicity of Mac OSX, with the Mac’s ability to run multiple operating systems you’ll have all these options. The Mac fits smoothly into any networked environment, has the ability to run applications such as Microsoft Office (sold separately) and can easily share files with PCs. The Mac is truly ideal for educators, students and system administrators alike.

iLife '11.

So it only makes sense to teach them with the tools and media they’re already using. With Apple, it’s easy to do. Creating digital content is truly simple, web research is quick and secure, and virtual collaboration is safe for young learners.

• iPhoto, for storing, organising, editing and sharing digital photos.
  
• iMovie, for creating digital movies.
  
• GarageBand, for performing, recording, and creating music and podcasts.
  
• iDVD, for creating professional-looking DVDs.
  

iLife applications share the same interface and menu commands, so once you learn one application you’ve basically learned them all. They’re also designed to work together flawlessly. So it’s simple to organise video clips, photographs or sound files, and then drop them into all the applications using Apple’s one-of-a-kind Media Browser.

iWork.

Work is a suite of productivity applications:

• Pages.
  
• Numbers.
  
• Keynote.
  

that make it easy to create great-looking documents, amazing spreadsheets and impressive, high-quality presentations. With iWork, word processing becomes much more interesting. You and your students can start with professionally designed templates and easily add images and graphs to enhance a key point. Science majors, for example, can use iWork to organise their research, visualise complex concepts, write grants and present their findings.