Apple in Education

Transformation in learning starts with the best minds in education.

Thank you for attending the Education Leadership Summit 2010 recently held in Dallas, Texas.

We are pleased to provide the following resources from the Summit to continue the conversations begun in Dallas and hope they will help facilitate new discussions in your own institutions. You will find links to a variety of materials ranging from links to our keynote speaker, videos of our student panelists, presentations from our workshop presenters, and access to the summit “back-channel” contributions.

Additional resources will be provided at this site as they become available.

Summit Keynote Session

Malcolm Gladwell, Author (“Outliers,” “Blink,” “The Tipping Point”)
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Learning with Apple

John Couch, Vice President, Education Marketing
Apple Inc.
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Blending Formal and Informal Learning: Student Perspectives

Students ranging from elementary school through graduate school participated in this year's Summit and each had an amazing story to tell. The vidoes below feature six of these students and showcase the formal and informal learning environments that allow them to thrive as they use technology as a place to learn, create and share.

To view the videos, please click on each image below.

Personalized Learning Tracks

The Summit featured breakout workshops from a variety of speakers across the country. Many of our speakers have shared their presentations in PDF format below. Additional resources will be provided at this site as they become available.

Apple Innovations for Learning

Don Henderson
Apple Inc.
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Marco Torres
torres21
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Sarah Herrlinger
Apple Inc.
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William Rankin
Abilene Christian University
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Learning with Apple Showcase Videos

Improving Literacy with iPod touch
Escondido Union School District

Taking lecture podcasts mobile with iPod touch
Ohio State University

The Learning Challenge—Our National Opportunity

Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Educational Technology
United States Department of Education