[ Music ]
>> Imagination is the key
because you're using your
knowledge but you know to make
something that no one's made
before.
[ Music ]
>> If you're creative, then
other people will be inspired by
you and then they'll keep
pushing forward.
So if you -- you'll spread it to
your friends, and then your
friends spread to their friends.
And then all over the world
everyone will have a happy life.
[ Music ]
>> It's like a whole land of
imagination where you feel like
you can make anything or invent
anything you want, and you make
something that nobody has ever
thinked of.
[ Music ]
>> When you grow up, you're
going to be a pro.
So you better get creative right
now so you can remember those
things, what you did from the
past, carry those things, bring
them to the future.
[ Music ]
>> You can make anything you
want, and you can make that
change the world.
One small thing could change the
world, like, one person can
change the world.
[ Music ]
[ Applause ]
>> Good morning.
[ Applause ]
>> Good morning.
Good morning.
[ Applause ]
>> Thank you.
Thank you.
Wow. Good morning.
Thank you so much for joining
us.
We hope that you loved that
video as much as we do.
We've always believed that
people with passion could change
the world.
And that was on display this
weekend in marches across
Washington and across our
nation.
We're deeply -- yeah.
[ Applause ]
We are deeply inspired by the
courage of these students who
are using their voices to bring
about change in America.
We're proud to be here in
Chicago.
[ Applause ]
Chicago is home to one of the
largest, most diverse, and most
forward-thinking school systems
in the entire country.
Educators in the Chicago -- yeah
-- Chicago public school
district share our strong belief
that technology has an important
role to play in the classroom.
Macs and iPads are used
throughout the school by
students for everything from
music to language arts and even
advanced robotics.
And we recently announced that
CPS is working with Apple to
teach coding to more than
370,000 kids across the
district.
Yeah.
[ Applause ]
We're also thrilled to be right
here at Lane Tech College Prep
High School.
Yeah.
[ Applause ]
Lane Tech -- lane tech is one of
the oldest and it's the largest
public high school in the
Chicago public school district.
There may be many reasons why
they claim to be the school of
champions, but there's none more
impressive than having more
PhD's coming out of Lane than
any school in the country.
Whoa.
[ Applause ]
At Apple, we care deeply about
education because we love kids.
And we love teachers.
We love creativity and
curiosity.
And we know that our products
can help bring out the creative
genius in every kid.
That's why education is such a
big part of who we are as a
company and has been for 40
years.
[ Applause ]
Starting back in 1978, Apple saw
the incredible opportunity to
bring powerful computer
technology to everyone,
including kids and teachers.
We had a unique insight into how
technology could inspire kids to
unleash their creative genius.
And we believed that technology
could help teachers deliver a
unique and personalized learning
experience to all kids.
We've never stopped believing
this.
And we've never stopped working
on it.
That's why early on we created
Wheels for the Mind, the first
program for university educators
to share ideas and best
practices and to teach educators
how to use technology best in
the classroom.
And it's why we created a tenure
study called Apple Classrooms of
Tomorrow that showed engagement
increased exponentially for
students and teachers who had
access to our products.
Our work in education continues
today across the entire company.
For example, we created a
comprehensive new curriculum
called Everyone Can Code using
our Swift Playgrounds app.
It makes it fun and easy for
everyone to learn to code
whether they're in the classroom
or at home.
And at Apple retail, students
and teachers can come in and
join scheduled classes that have
been prepared just for them to
learn new skills from everything
from photography and film-making
to including creating their own
apps.
And recently we announced an
initiative to bring coding
opportunities to the community
schools, community colleges,
technical colleges, vocational
schools, including the City
Colleges of Chicago.
[ Applause ]
These schools are using our app
development with Swift to create
the next generation of killer
apps.
We're also working with 40 STEAM
organizations around the world
to bring coding to even more
kids of all backgrounds, like
App Camp for girls who are
incorporating Swift into the
program for girls across the
United States.
And through ConnectED we're
bringing technology and
professional learning to more
than 100 undeserved schools
across America, working with
school leaders and helping them
to deliver on the vision of
technology right in their
classrooms for all students.
I really love this program.
And I'm pleased to welcome
Kathleen Richardson, who works
with ConnectED for Apple, to
tell you first hand about her
experiences using Apple products
right in the classroom.
Kathleen?
[ Applause ]
>> Hello. My name is Kathleen.
I used to be a classroom
teacher.
And now I work at Apple on a
team that travels across the
country that works directly with
educators that use Apple
products in their classroom.
I'd like to tell you a story
about one teacher that I work
with at Tuskegee Public
Elementary School in Alabama.
Mr. Ferris Moore is a sixth
grade teacher at TPS.
And he wanted to figure out a
way to be able to change his
teaching practices to ensure
that all of his students were
connected and engaged in
learning.
So he led his students to try
some amazing new projects with
iPad.
One is a project -- a Veterans
History Project -- that's in
partnership with the Library of
Congress.
When his students were learning
about various world wars, he
quickly saw that they were not
connected or engaged in the
content.
He decided to reach out to
veterans in their community,
have them come to the school to
be interviewed, and provide
their war accounts.
This was a great experience for
the stories -- for the students
because they were able to record
all of these stories.
Making the experience more
personal and collaborative
helped the students build a
better understanding of this
piece of history.
They used iPad to make
connections between the wars
they were studying and the
impact that it had on people in
their local community.
They took ownership of their
learning, and now their digital
projects will be showcased at
the Library of Congress for the
entire world to see.
Yes.
[ Applause ]
It's very, very exciting.
And do you know why it's
exciting?
Because Mr. Moore empowered his
students.
And now they're researchers,
they're photographers, they're
reporters, they're historians,
and much more.
They're already talking about
their journey into higher
education and the careers they
plan to obtain with vigor.
And they're only elementary
students.
Thank you.
[ Applause ]
>> Thanks.
[ Applause ]
Yeah. I've been to that school,
it will make your heart sing to
be there.
Thank you, Kathleen, for sharing
that with us.
It's inspiring to hear about the
fantastic results that we're
seeing in ConnectED.
Working with students and
teachers constantly reminds us
of the words Horace Mann, the
great education reformer who
once said, "Education, then,
beyond all devices of human
origin, is the great equalizer
of the conditions of men and
women."
These words are as important
today as they were when he wrote
them over 150 years ago.
We've been so fortunate to have
been invited into classrooms all
over the world and to see
firsthand the experiences of
learning with our products.
Like the Luwan Number One
Central Primary School in
Shanghai, which is using iPad to
create entirely new ways to
teach everything from history to
the arts.
And the Woodbury Down Primary
School in London where students
are making their own books to
share, scoring their own songs,
and programming drones with
Swift.
Moments like this mean so much
to everyone at Apple.
They inspire us to create even
better products that help kids
learn and unlock their amazing
creative genius.
Today we're going to take those
experiences even further.
And to start it off we're going
to talk about iPad.
And to do that, I'd like to
invite Greg Joswiak up to the
stage.
Greg?
[ Applause ]
>> Good morning.
Good morning, everyone.
We know that great teachers and
powerful technology are an
incredible combination.
They can unleash students'
creativity, allowing them to do
things they never dreamed
possible.
We're proud to make the very
best products for unleashing
this creativity, and we're
driven to make products that our
customers love.
And teachers and students alike
love the iPad.
They love that the iPad is so
easy to use with its incredible,
large multi-touch display and
itself legendary easy-to-use
interface.
It feels like an extension of
their minds -- engaging, fluid,
and immersive.
They love the iPad because it's
super portable; they can take it
with them anywhere in the
classroom and beyond.
Because today learning happens
everywhere, even where there
might not be a desk.
For instance, students can take
the iPad on a field trip, use
the camera to identify the
plants they see, then use our
Clips app, shoot a video report
to share what they've learned.
They love iPad because it's so
versatile.
The iPad is a magical sheet of
glass that can become anything
we want it to be, like these
students who are using iPad to
program and command robots.
Think for a moment just how cool
that is.
I couldn't do this when I was a
kid, but this is what kids do
today with iPad in the
classroom.
They love iPad because it's
super powerful.
They can use it -- they can use
apps like Playground Physics to
record video and use that to
instantly analyze speed, force,
and energy of motion.
They love iPad because it comes
with amazing built-in apps that
ignite creativity -- apps
including iWork, GarageBand,
Clips, and iMovie.
Students can create incredible
reports.
They can capture their next big
idea, shoot and edit their first
film, or compose their first
opus.
There's nothing like these
creativity apps on any other
device.
They also love that the iPad can
do over a million other
incredible things -- literally,
as there are over 1 million apps
in the App Store made for iPad
that can do virtually anything
we could imagine.
And there are nearly 200,000
apps made for education.
[ Applause ]
This goes way beyond the basics
and way beyond browser-based
apps.
No other platform has anything
close to this depth, breadth, or
quality of apps for learning.
They love that the iPad is built
for everyone.
With accessibility features
built into iOS, these
capabilities are available to
students of all abilities.
You know, we love hearing from
teachers -- they are the ones in
the classrooms day in and day
out, stoking the imaginations of
their students.
They've seen firsthand the way
their students are more engaged,
more creative, and ultimately
more successful when they're
working with iPad.
So I'd like to bring up Cassey
Williams from the Woodbury Down
School in England that you heard
about just a few minutes ago to
tell you about her experiences
with iPad in a classroom.
Please welcome Cassey.
[ Applause ]
>> Hi, everyone.
I teach across three primary
schools in London, but we have a
wide range of students from all
different backgrounds and
cultures.
When I first introduced iPad
into my classroom, I quickly
realized the impact it could
have on engaging my learners.
Movie making, documenting
science projects, sharing
presentations were ways to bring
my diverse class together.
It sparks collaboration,
creativity, and curiosity.
And it helped me to enable every
child to find their own path to
success.
In year two, we had geography
lessons where the children learn
about where our food comes from
and how it gets to us.
They used iPad and apps to
research the different
geographical features of
countries where food, such as
bananas, grows.
They investigate the farmers,
the vegetation, the people of
the country.
They can study different modes
of transportation, the
packaging, the journey and the
distance the food takes to get
to us.
When they finished their
learning, they bring it all
together in video which allows
them to best express themselves.
What's unique about these
lessons today with iPad is that
the students have virtually
unlimited directions that they
can take their learning.
They are creators of content,
rather than consumers of
information.
They choose the path based on
what they find interesting.
Some spend more time in the
country where the food was
grown, whilst others focus more
on how the food was brought to
the UK.
Being able to see their learning
in video helps me to better
asses what they know.
It also helps our children who
speak English as a second
language and who would otherwise
find it to communicate and
participate in the learning.
In 2017, the national average of
children achieving the expected
standard in readings, writing,
and maths was 61%.
In our schools, 96% of the
students achieved that expected
standard.
[ Applause ]
This shows how the skills we are
developing with our children is
helping to have an impact on
academic performance.
Thank you very much.
[ Applause ]
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Thank you, Cassey.
It's great to hear about all
that fantastic success that
you're having with iPad in your
classroom.
I'm really proud that the things
teachers and students love of
iPad are true of all of our iPad
models.
And the most popular iPad has
been the 9.7-inch iPad with its
fantastic large display, great
capabilities, and it's available
to schools for just $299.
Mashable said, "Apple's $299
iPad is a love letter to
education."
And schools do love it.
This is our most popular iPad in
education by far.
So today we're introducing a new
iPad that takes this experience
even further.
And I'd like to introduce it to
you now.
[ Music ]
[ Applause ]
The new 9.7-inch iPad takes
everything people love about our
most popular iPad and make it
even better for inspiring
creativity and learning.
Apple Pencil and iPad Pro has
become the creative tool of
choice by the world's most
demanding pro artists,
illustrators, and designers.
It's incredibly fast, fluid, and
precise.
And it feels completely natural
to use.
But we wanted to bring that
amazing experience to even more
people.
So now our most affordable iPad
has support for our most
creative tool, Apple Pencil,
[ Applause ]
We're providing a
high-resolution touch system
with sub-pixel precision to this
iPad.
This will enable ultra-low
latency, Pencil support, and the
same tilt and pressure sensing
that have made Apple Pencil such
a hit.
It's so versatile for the things
you do every day at school, like
taking notes.
Apple Pencil works beautifully
with the built-in Notes app.
And mark-up.
It's now just so easy to markup
a worksheet, assignment, or
screenshot.
And of course, the great
education apps like Explain
Everything that already support
Apple Pencil will work with this
new iPad.
And it goes so much further.
There's an incredible universe
of apps designed for Apple
Pencil on iPad Pro that will now
be available to everyone.
And more and more iPad
Pencil-enabled apps and new uses
for Apple Pencil just keep
coming.
And three of the most popular
apps in education are our own
iWork suite of apps: Pages,
Numbers, and Keynote.
Today we're introducing all new
versions of these three apps
that support Apple Pencil.
[ Applause ]
Students can now add drawings or
notes right inside their
projects.
And it's really easy to use.
In fact, we gave it to some
students to see what they would
do, and we were really impressed
by their results.
This report on Vikings history
feels completely different once
they added their own drawings of
Vikings and their ships.
And this lab report on
balloon-powered rockets came
alive with their illustrations
done with Apple Pencil.
My lab reports never looked like
this, but now kids have a whole
new way to showcase what they're
learning.
Now, in addition to supporting
drawing with Apple Pencil, we
also wanted to give you a sneak
peek of something really cool in
the new version of Pages.
We're still working on this beta
feature, but we think it's
already pretty awesome, and it's
called Smart Annotation.
[ Applause ]
Today students are turning in
their papers electronically.
But if you want to mark up a
students' paper, you either have
to print it out or you have to
make a PDF copy and mark it up
with special apps.
And you have to do this for
every student.
Well, with Pages and Smart
Annotation, that all goes away.
Now you can simply write or add
marks right on the Pages
document itself.
This isn't just a superficial
layer of ink on top of the
document like others have done.
With Smart Annotation, your
marks stay anchored to the words
they were added to.
Notice the mark I made around
the word he and how it moves as
I edit the document, just like
you would expect it to.
This level of integration has
never been done before.
[ Applause ]
Pencil support is such a natural
extension to iWork, and it's
perfect for education.
Now, let's talk about something
else that's making a big impact
in the classroom, and that's
digital books.
Teachers love using their Macs
to create digital books that
bring subjects to life in a way
that no paper book can.
With interactive features,
video, and photos that you can
customize you can make the
content relevant to the kids in
your class because students
light up when they see their
school or their friends in a
real book.
We've been able to make these
books on a Mac using iBooks'
Author, but we wanted to open it
up to even more teachers and
students, too.
So today we're bringing digital
book creation to the iPad.
[ Applause ]
And we're building it right into
Pages, which works great on iPad
and works great on the Mac, too.
It's got everything you need to
make a totally engaging digital
book.
To make it easy to get started,
we've included a full set of
templates for everything from
reports to stories to lessons.
And they're created by Apple
designers and they're absolutely
beautiful.
The pages of your digital book
come alive.
You can easily add your own
interactive image galleries
filled with photos and captions
that you can swipe through with
your finger.
And you can easily add videos
complete with sound.
You can even use the built-in
camera of the iPad to record
videos right onto the page.
And with Apple Pencil, you can
personalize your book even more
with your own illustrations.
And we know that creative minds
working together can produce
some amazing results.
So Pages has group collaboration
built right in, making it easy
to spark ideas on a book as a
group project.
[ Applause ]
This is a game-changing version
of iWork.
And all three apps come loaded
onto every iPad for free.
iWork was already super popular
with education, and now it's
even more super awesome.
Our most affordable iPad now
with Pencil support and
game-changing apps, yet there's
so much more.
This iPad is designed to be the
ultimate tool for education with
its beautiful large retina
display; advanced front and rear
cameras for photos, videos,
FaceTime video calls; an amazing
array of sensors, including
gyroscope and accelerometer.
You authenticate with just a
touch of your finger in touch
ID.
Fast LTE capability so you can
go anywhere and stay connected.
And, of course, it has great
all-day 10-hour battery life and
it weighs just one pound.
But we're also upgrading the
chip in this new iPad to the
super fast A10 Fusion.
The A10 gives a big boost in
processing and graphic source
power.
This is important because
students and teachers are
creating complex projects, and
they're using the enhanced
multitasking capabilities built
into iOS 11 to run multiple apps
at the same time.
And they're using the graphics
and video intensive apps that
make learning so much more
immersive and more engaging.
With the A10 Fusion, this iPad
is now more powerful than most
PC, laptops, and virtually every
Chromebook.
[ Applause ]
Now let's talk about something
really cool: Augmented reality.
AR is about combining digital
with the real world, and iOS is
the largest AR platform in the
world.
And we believe AR is going to
bring an entirely new dimension
to the classroom, enabling new
ways to learn.
Well, this iPad has the power of
the A10 Fusion combined with the
big beautiful retina display,
advanced cameras, and sensors
that enable incredible AR
experiences simply not possible
on other devices.
And we're already seeing some
amazing AR apps for education
and learning.
The first app I'd like to show
you is Boulevard AR, which
brings art history to life.
Imagine you're in a history
class and you want to view a
prized piece of art.
You basically have two choices:
You can either look at a book or
you can go to a museum.
And that museum may be nowhere
near you.
Well, imagine instead if you
could instantly view that piece
of art hanging on the walls of
your classroom.
Well, Boulevard is working on an
app which allows students to do
just that.
[ Music ]
They can walk right up to
priceless works of art from
museums around the world, get up
close enough to see the
individual brush strokes, check
out every detail.
It's the next-best thing to
being in a museum.
And in some ways it's even
better because no gallery would
ever let you this close
[Laughs].
Isn't this awesome?
[ Applause ]
The next app is Free Rivers app
from the World Wildlife Fund
that uses AR to allow students
to interact with the environment
in ways they never could before.
Because it's one thing to read
about in science, it's quite
another to experience.
You can place a beautifully
detailed landscape right on the
table in front of you and you
can explore and interact with
it.
So you can fly in through the
clouds, easily move around a
free-flowing river valley.
Students can see what it's like
if they decide to build a
hydropower dam in a bad and the
impact of their decision on the
environment.
[ Music ]
This is just so cool.
[ Applause ]
AR on the iPad helps students
experience and understand these
concepts much more cheaply than
they ever could before.
The last app I'm going to show
you is one of my favorites.
It's called Froggypedia by
Designmate.
And it allows you to experience
biology in a way you never could
before.
With the magic of AR, students
can place a virtual frog right
on their desk and they can
explore the inner workings of
that frog the way they never
could with a real frog.
[ Applause ]
And instead of dissecting a frog
which can have both cost and
safety implications, not to
mention some serious
implications for the frog,
students can dissect a virtual
frog with our Apple Pencil.
They can even take a built-in
quiz to identify the individual
organs.
We just love this stuff.
[ Applause ]
There's no doubt that AR is
going to dramatically change the
way this generation learns.
In addition to all these
incredible AR capabilities, this
iPad comes loaded with all the
other great features built for
iPad in iOS 11.
And our terrific apps like
GarageBand, Clips, iMovie,
Notes, and the iWork suite can
help anyone be more creative.
And since we've made both the
hardware and the software,
nothing comes even close to
offering the powerfully simple
or magical experience that iPad
can.
And even with all these
enhancements, we're pleased that
we're able to offer this new
iPad for the same $329 starting
price for consumers, and we're
super pleased to offer this to
schools for just $299.
[ Applause ]
It's available to order today
and we'll start shipping to our
customers and arriving in stores
this week.
[ Applause ]
And the updates to Pages,
Numbers, and Keynote that I
showed you come with every new
iPad, and they're also available
for download today as well.
[ Applause ]
And we're also bringing great
new education content to two of
our most beloved creative apps
today as well.
GarageBand has a brand new sound
pack for kids with fun new
instruments and sound effects,
even fun animal sounds.
And Clips -- go ahead, it's
great.
[ Applause ]
And with Clips, students can
enhance their videos with new
shapes, styles, and
great-looking posters.
Great hardware and great
software for education, but we
didn't stop there.
We also created some great tools
to help you use iPad in the
classroom.
Now, some schools provide an
iPad for every student, but some
schools like to share a pool of
iPads among many students.
To make that easier, we created
Shared iPad.
Shared iPad lets a student pick
up any iPad off the school cart,
tap on their name.
And once they log in, that iPad
becomes their own with their own
apps, their own books, and their
own documents ready to go.
[ Applause ]
And at the end of class that
same iPad can be ready for the
next student in less than one
minute.
And when it comes to getting set
up, we created Apple School
Manager to give the tech teams a
one-stop shop to easily set up
devices, download apps, and
create Apple ID's for everyone
in the school.
Let's talk a moment about Apple
ID's because they're important.
They give you and your students
access to Apple services like
iCloud storage, automatic
backup, Shared iPad, and group
collaboration.
And with Apple School Manager,
Apple ID's can be created
individually or in bulk by your
school's team tech.
And it's fast.
You can create enough Apple ID's
for an entire school of 1,500 in
less than one minute [Laughs].
That is fast.
And Apple School Manager can
even integrate with your student
information system so ID's can
be automatically added or
removed when students join or
leave the school.
Another thing you get with
Manager Apple ID is free iCloud
storage for your data, your
documents, and your projects.
We're excited to announce that
starting today, we're increasing
the storage that we include for
every managed Apple ID in
education from 5 gigabytes to
200 gigabytes.
[ Applause ]
So you have plenty of room to
store all that rich, creative
content you're making on iPad.
In addition to great hardware,
software, and services, there's
also a vast ecosystem of
accessories that allow the iPad
to do even more, from drones to
microscopes, to audio visual
equipment, and so much more.
And there's some great new iPad
accessories designed with
schools in mind, and I'd like to
highlight a couple of them.
The first is an updated rugged
case and keyboard combo from
Logitech designed specifically
for kids in school.
And Logitech is also offering
Crayon, a new low-cost options
for education that works great
with iWork and other
Pencil-enabled apps.
This new 9.7-inch iPad puts a
ton of power and creative
capability into a durable and
mobile design that weighs just
one pound.
It can easily fit into any
curriculum or any backpack.
It offers so many advantages
over any other device or
platform.
In fact, we believe this
powerful combination of
hardware, software, services,
and ecosystem make this iPad the
very best product ever created
for students and teachers.
[ Applause ]
So that's iPad.
And as I said earlier, great
teachers and powerful technology
are an incredible combination.
So now I'd like to invite Susan
Prescott to the stage to tell
you about all the things we're
doing for these great teachers.
[ Applause ]
>> Thanks.
So I hope you had as much fun as
I did watching Jaws walk through
those amazing products.
But we do know that the best
products alone can't create
great learning experiences.
Teachers are the heart of the
classroom.
And we know it takes dedicated,
passionate teachers to fuel
students' curiosity and to guide
them to their full creative
potential.
So we want to help teachers use
our product to create engaging
and personal learning
experiences for all kinds of
learners.
Some of you may be thinking,
"That sounds great, but how am I
going to do that in my
classroom, where am I going to
finds time?"
Well, today we're going to share
with you some tools we've
created to help.
And it starts with the Classroom
app.
Teachers love it because it
guides -- lets them guide their
students, that's guiding --
guiding their students and keep
them focused and on task even
when the kids aren't all doing
the same thing.
Teachers can see what their
students are doing on iPad, but
they can click in on a specific
student, make sure everything's
okay, and give additional
guidance if they need it.
Teachers love using Classroom on
the iPad, but we know lots of
teachers love using their Mac.
So today I'm happy to announce
we're bringing Classroom to the
Mac.
[ Applause ]
Now, with all the same great
features as the iPad app,
teachers can use a Mac to guide
their students working on iPad.
Classroom for Mac will be
available as beta in June.
So look for it.
Classroom is great.
I could hear you guys love it,
too.
But we want to help you do more
to communicate and connect with
students and give them the
personal attention they deserve.
So today I am very excited to
introduce a brand new app called
Schoolwork.
[ Applause ]
Schoolwork is a free cloud-based
app that makes it easy for you
to assign handouts, to tap into
the power of apps that make the
iPad amazing, and to give
visibility into each student's
progress.
So let's take a look.
When you open Schoolwork, you
can see all your classes, as
well as any upcoming
assignments.
It's easy to create handouts for
your class with PDF's, or web
links, or documents.
You might want to send your
class a simple field trip
reminder, or a group project
assignment, or maybe today's
math homework.
It's literally as easy as
sending an email.
[ Applause ]
But we just saw some of the
amazing apps in our ecosystem
that let students and teachers
in the classroom learn and
create in ways they never could
before.
So we knew Schoolwork had to do
more.
It had to go further.
So today in Schoolwork we're
introducing a ground-breaking
new way to bring apps into your
classroom.
[ Applause ]
Now, of course, student lets you
point -- students and teachers
-- Schoolwork will let you
points students to an app, and
that's great.
But that's not enough.
What's really cool is we make it
easy for you to assign students
a specific activity within an
app.
So with one tap, students can go
directly to that activity you
wanted them to complete.
For example, this is the
integers activity from the
[inaudible] app.
Now assigning an activity within
an app is as easy as assigning a
worksheet.
But can it be just as easy to
check on their progress?
With Schoolwork it is.
[ Applause ]
For the first time it's easy for
you to see how all your students
are doing on an activity like
the [inaudible] activity we saw.
You can see how an individual
student is doing -- Jeremy's
doing pretty well.
And with just a tap I can see a
detailed view of all the
students' work.
Kind of incredible.
So this means their documents,
their projects, and detailed
view of how they're doing even
on their app activities.
And that's important for many
reasons, but one is we think it
will allow teachers to be able
to tailor to the needs and the
potential of their students by
getting this kind of view.
We're really excited about that.
So --
[ Applause ]
-- so it's really important to
us that you understand this data
stays private.
[ Applause ]
It's very important.
While teachers see each
student's progress information,
we don't and neither can anybody
else.
Privacy is integral to
everything we do at Apple, not
just for students and teachers,
but for everyone using an Apple
product.
It is something we are very
passionate about.
[ Applause ]
Now, how did these great apps
integrate with Schoolwork?
ClassKit is a brand new API that
we're introducing today to do
just that.
These are some apps that had
early access to the ClassKit API
and have already begun to
integrate their apps and the
activities within those apps to
easily work as assignments
within Schoolwork.
And many more apps are on it's
way.
So that's a look at Schoolwork,
a new app we're very excited to
announce today.
It will be available in June.
[ Applause ]
All right.
Let's talk about another
important way we're supporting
teachers by making it easier to
bring our products into the
classroom in fun but also
meaningful ways.
And the way we do that is with
Apple Teacher, our free and
self-paced online professional
learning program.
With Apple Teacher, you can
build skills for teaching with
our products; you can show
progress by earning badges; one
of my favorite parts, you can be
inspired by what's happening in
your classroom or by seeing what
other teachers are doing.
Apple Teacher Learning Center is
where you can get the free
resources and activities to get
the most from our products in
the classroom.
As an example, teachers love our
starter guides, which help them
gets hands on with creative
projects and content and new
ideas.
We're always adding new content
to Apple Teacher Learning
Center.
In fact, today we're adding a
new collection to let you bring
Clips into the classroom in
really fun new ways.
If you want to test what you've
learned, we offer quizzes.
And for each quiz that you pass,
you can earn a badge.
Teachers feel a sense of
accomplishment from earning
these badges.
We love seeing them celebrate
and inspire one another.
It's a lot of fun.
And today we're excited to
announce that we are almost just
on the verge of handing out our
one millionth badge.
[ Applause ]
So congratulations to all the
teachers on those many
accomplishments.
One teacher that's actively
participated in Apple Teacher --
and in fact, she's earned every
badge we offer -- is a great
teacher named Nikole Blanchard
from the Dunham School in
Louisiana.
Nikole has inspired us and her
whole community.
Please join me in welcoming
Nikole.
>> Thank you.
[ Applause ]
Hi, I'm Nikole Blanchard.
I get to work with my teachers
and help them use technology in
the classroom.
Professional learning plays such
an important role in helping us
grow as educators, as well as
reach our students.
Apple Teacher has been such a
gift to the Dunham School
community.
It has helped my teachers see
new ways that they can use
technology in the classroom.
It has also inspired them to
make learning more
student-centered.
One fourth grade teacher at my
school decided to take a reading
unit and make it a total
interactive learning experience.
Instead of a traditional book
report, she encouraged students
to bring characters to life
using voice recorder and
GarageBand.
These students showed empathy
for the characters and made
inferences.
And wow, did their personalities
shine through.
This was a fun and engaging unit
for the students.
But it was a particular turning
point for one student -- the
student who was afraid to stand
up in front of his peers and
speak, that student that had the
stomach ache on presentation
days.
This student found a safe place,
a place to practice.
He was able to record, then
listen, and then revise his
lines.
So when it came time to
presentation day, he stood up in
front of his peers confidently,
he pressed play, and the
recording took control.
He finally found his voice.
[ Applause ]
These are the days that we live
for as a teacher.
The days when there's a
breakthrough and we find that
spark in a child.
Thank you.
[ Applause ]
>> Thank you, Nikole.
Teachers like Nikole who wow us
and inspire us and make us wants
to figure out more ways we can
have impact in the classroom.
One of the things we're doing
that may be the most powerful
thing we're doing is building
curriculum.
We believe coding is a
fundamental literacy in today's
world.
And Tim mentioned that we've
developed a curriculum to make
it easy and fun for students
around the world to learn to
read and write code.
Everyone Can Code.
[ Applause ]
It includes free teaching and
learning resources available to
tens of millions of kids around
the world.
And learning coding isn't just
so you can become a developer,
though it's great if that's what
a kid wants to do.
There's valuable skills and
benefits to learning coding
anyway.
Of course, it's everywhere in
the world we live, but it also
teaches critical thinking and
problem-solving.
And the confidence a kid feels
when they realize they can code
helps them discover something
really great about themselves.
It's magical.
Everyone Can Code uses Swift,
which is a powerful programming
language we developed here at
Apple.
We're proud that Swift is the
fastest-growing program
language, but we are equally
proud that it was designed to be
easy to teach and easy to learn.
So kids can start with a real
programming language and take it
all the way through.
You can do so much with Swift.
In fact, our engineers used
Swift to build Swift
Playgrounds, the fun and free
interactive app that teaches kid
to code.
And they love it.
We've localized it in 15
languages, it's available in 155
countries.
Kids love Swift Playgrounds.
And when we introduced
opportunity to program drones
and robots on an iPad, it's just
gone to another level; it makes
coding so much fun.
Swift Playgrounds, though, is
just part of the full Everyone
Can Code curriculum.
We have lessons that go from
basic coding concepts all the
way to kids building
fully-functional apps of their
own that they designed, maybe
that will change the world.
And today we're announcing an AR
kit module for our app
development with Swift
curriculum so kids can not only
build and design apps, they can
do it with the super cool
augmented reality technology
that Jaws showed earlier.
[ Applause ]
To get teachers comfortable and
excited to teach coding, we have
teacher guides.
And the teacher guides are full
of things that teachers have
told us they found useful, like
keynote presentations that can
be customized, or lesson ideas
to make coding concepts easier
to understand, maybe rubrics to
track progress.
And, of course, Swift
Playgrounds integrated into
schoolwork so you can assign app
activities from within the app.
It's literally everything a
teacher needs to get started.
Teachers at almost 2,000 schools
around the world are already
teaching with Everyone Can Code
using these free teaching and
learning resources.
I'd like to bring one of them up
today to talk to you about
coding in her classroom, and
she's from right here in
Chicago.
Please welcome Kasia Derza.
[ Applause ]
>> Thank you.
[ Applause ]
>> Hi. I'm Kasia.
I have set high expectations for
my students, and I teach so
they'll be challenged to solve
problems, think, collaborate,
and learn from each other every
day.
I first started teaching coding
using block-based coding apps,
which are a great introduction
to the basics of coding.
But I knew my students could do
so much more with real code.
So I introduced them to Swift
Playgrounds -- they loved it.
Swift Playgrounds made them
realize how much more they could
do with code.
They immediately saw connections
between commands and functions
and things they do every day
like brushing their teeth or
tying their shoes.
I do not have a coding
background.
But using the Everyone Can Code
teacher guide allowed me to
bring something new and powerful
into my teaching.
I also got to learn more about
the students in my classroom.
And students with diverse
backgrounds, learning needs, and
English language learners found
new ways to achieve, and they
all blossomed into great problem
solvers.
One student in my classroom was
extremely shy.
She was learning to speak
English, and she did not feel
confident talking in class.
Swift Playgrounds gave her the
opportunity to showcase her
learning and work with other
students on common problems.
Because of her coding experience
this one shy student has become
a leader.
She is now a member of student
council and our schools tech
team.
[ Applause ]
I have been so inspired by what
I'm seeing in my classroom that
I am now integrating robots to
encourage students to stretch
their abilities.
They were so excited with their
new skills they even started
hosting coding workshops for
younger students at our school.
When students get to apply
coding into real life
situations, that's how I know I
am making real connections with
them.
Thank you.
[ Applause ]
Thank you.
[ Applause ]
>> I love seeing what Kasia's
class is doing, and the younger
kids being taught by older kids
is so awesome.
We're thrilled with the response
Everyone Can Code is having from
teachers and students around the
world.
But we talked about the power of
curriculum and we see that with
Everyone Can Code.
But we think we can take it even
further.
After 40 years working alongside
educators, we've seen and
research has shown that creative
thinking leads to deeper student
engagement, and that's so
important in a classroom.
Students become better problem
solvers, better collaborators,
better communicators.
They explore more, they
experiment more, they stretch
their imaginations and make
connections they may not have
otherwise made.
So powerful.
And they carry this through
everything they'll do in school
and beyond.
Today I am so excited to
announce we're building a
brand-new curriculum to inspire
a new kind of learning
experience, and we're calling it
Everyone Can Create.
[ Applause ]
Everyone Can Create is a program
designed around the idea that
technology can unleash kids
creativity and their creative
genius in the classroom.
And applying these concepts can
lead to deeper understanding and
demonstration of what they know
in any subject.
Now, like Everyone Can Code,
teachers have free teaching and
learning resources.
But with Everyone Can Create we
focus on developing skills in
four creative disciplines:
Music, video, photography, and
drawing.
And those are very powerful ways
for kids to express themselves.
But we know creativity isn't
just about art and music.
It's so much more.
The real magic comes when you
apply those skills in the
classroom to subjects you are
already teaching.
For example, in photography
skills like composition and
lighting can show mathematical
patterns that exist in nature.
Or a kid can use drawing skills
like sketching, texture, or
shading to bring out more detail
in a history report.
Record audio and add background
tracks to bring the mood, how
you felt when you heard a speech
or heard a quote like this.
>> Two, one, liftoff.
>> We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other
things, not because they are
easy, but because they are hard
>> The Eagle has landed.
>> Fun.
[ Applause ]
And those space sounds were from
the new GarageBand sound pack
that Jaws talked about.
Key video concepts like setting,
and composition, and narrative
can come to life by telling
stories in any subject, like
this video from Nikole's class
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
>> Living cells reproduce to a
process called mitosis.
>> First the cell gets ready to
divide by duplicating its DNA.
>> The chromosomes line up along
the center of the cell.
>> The proteins pull the
chromosomes apart to opposite
sides of the cell.
>> A membrane forms around each
set of chromosomes.
>> And the cell pinches in the
middle to form two separate
daughter cells.
>> And that's mitosis.
[ Applause ]
Such amazing work and so much
kids can do in the classroom.
And there are student guides
full of real-world examples and
projects to help students build
their skills.
And of course there's a robust
set of teaching materials that
include lesson ideas and class
activities for any grade level
and include assessment tips and
sample student work.
I hope you understand why we
believe iPad is best at engaging
students in new learning
experiences.
It's perfect for helping kids
unleash their creativity and
have freedom of expression.
We believe Everyone Can Create
will develop and discover new
skills for kids, and we can't
wait to see what they do with
it.
Everyone Can Create you can
preview today with more content
coming this summer so you can be
ready this fall in the
classroom.
[ Applause ]
So that's a look at just some
great things that we're doing
that we really hope will help
teachers create these learning
experiences, apps like Classroom
and Schoolwork to bring our
product into the classroom more
easily, and skills from Apple
Teacher that help [inaudible]
confident and comfortable
bringing fun and meaningful
projects into the classroom with
our products, an amazing
curriculum for learning code,
and also a brand-new curriculum
for igniting creativity.
So today we are thrilled to have
more than 300 teachers from
across the country and around
the world with us.
[ Applause ]
We appreciate the work you do
every day with your students and
our kids.
The impact goes far beyond the
classroom.
Thank you.
[ Applause ]
To celebrate you, we went out
and talked to some people who we
thinks opinion really matters.
Let's take a look.
>> My teacher has a hard job.
Her hardest part of the day is
trying to make kids listen.
>> I admire their patience.
I mean --
>> Shout out to all those
teachers out there, I got to
say.
>> I think that it would be
inspiring to be a teacher --
>> Because you get to shape a
kid's mind.
>> You guys help us learn so we
can get smarter.
>> I secretly love school.
I mean, my mom knows about it.
>> Roses are red, violets are
blue, you are my teacher and I
respect you.
>> Thank you.
>> Teachers for teaching
students and educating us on
things that we will need to
learn later on in life.
>> You have the hardest job in
the world I think, and you're
nailing it.
You're nailing it.
[ Applause ]
>> You are nailing it.
I couldn't have said it better
myself.
And now I'd like to have Tim
join us again on stage.
Thanks, Tim.
>> Thank you, Susan.
Thank you.
This is an important day for
Apple, and we hope that it's an
important day for students and
teachers around the world, too.
We believe in the power of
education to create opportunity,
and we're excited about all the
things our products can do to
make the learning experience
even better than ever.
This morning we announced the
new iPad with support for Apple
Pencil.
It's a breakthrough device and
with all of its incredible apps
puts amazing creative potential
right in the hands of every
student.
And all of the amazing augmented
reality apps being created
specifically for learning, it
truly puts the ability to
explore the world into the hands
of our kids and teachers like no
technology has ever done before.
We've made some fantastic
software announcements today
with Pages, Keynote, Numbers,
Clips, and GarageBand all
designed to take advantage of
the power of the new iPad and
Apple Pencil.
We're excited about Everyone Can
Code, our curriculum giving
every student the opportunity to
discover just how fun it is to
create their own apps.
And we're so thrilled to
introduce you to our new
curriculum, Everyone Can Create.
We believe we can help teachers
bring fun, new experiences into
every subject in the classroom,
helping kids to communicate in
powerful ways and flex their
creative muscle.
We think it's an honor to be
able to support teachers with a
new generation of apps and
services that have been designed
just for them.
From using Pages to digitally
mark up students' homework to
managing student assignments and
viewing progress in the new
Schoolwork app.
We've been at this for 40 years,
and we care deeply about
education.
We believe that our place at the
intersection of technology and
the liberal arts makes it
possible for us to create
powerful products and tools that
amplify learning and creativity.
This is something that only
Apple can do.
To close today we want to show
you just how much fun kids can
have collaborating and learning
together with iPad.
So we made a video, and I'd love
to run it for you now.
>> Settle, settle, please.
Eyes up here.
Eyes up here, we're not done.
Group three, let's have Ivy, and
Michael, Ryan, Sally, and
Thomas.
Thomas. Your homework is to
explore gravity.
Okay, don't forget, projects are
due on Friday.
Friday, please.
Friday. And don't forget your
homework.
>> Homework, oh homework.
I hate you, you stink, and I
wish I could wash you away in
the sink.
>> You guys ready?
>> If only a hippo would smash
you to bits.
Homework, oh homework.
You're giving me fits.
>> We got it.
>> That's amazing, yeah.
>> I'd rather take baths with a
man-eating shark, or wrestle a
lion alone in the dark, eat
spinach and liver, pet ten
porcupines than tackle the
homework my teacher assigns.
>> Action.
[ Music ]
>> Dad.
>> Homework, oh homework, you
are last on my list.
I simply can't see why you even
exist.
[ Music ]
If you just disappeared, it
would tickle me pink.
>> Next up, group three.
>> Homework, oh homework.
I hate you, you stink.
[ Applause ]
>> Oh, doesn't that look fun?
I don't know about you, but I
want to go back to school.
We can't wait for you to try out
these products for yourself.
We're inviting the press and
special guests to join us right
down the hall here at Lane Tech
classrooms for some hands-on
sessions to learn more about
everything that we announced
this morning.
And this evening we are inviting
everyone to come join us for a
special celebration of
creativity at our new Apple
Store at Michigan Avenue where
we will be hosting our very
first Everyone Can Create
session.
There will also be a performance
tonight by Tokyo.
He is a graduate of Lane Tech.
And he'll be performing tracks
from his new studio album.
I'd like to thank the City of
Chicago, Chicago Public Schools,
and Lane Tech for hosting us.
[ Applause ]
I'd also like to thank all of
the presenters and teachers that
came from all around the world
to be here with us today and
share their experiences in the
classroom.
[ Applause ]
And finally, I'd like to thank
every teacher out there around
the world for the important work
that you do every day.
You are teaching the next
generation of creators and
leaders.
And myself and everyone at Apple
are deeply inspired by what you
do every day.
Thank you, thank you.
[ Applause ]