IDEAcon 2025 was held February 17–19, 2025.
Thank you for joining us at IDEAcon 2025. We enjoyed sharing this journey with you. Apple Education’s dedicated team guided interactive sessions on diverse topics and provided great ideas, tools, and resources. Please see a list of resources from those sessions below.
Accessibility: Empowering All Learners
Monday, February 17 | 10:45–11:45 a.m. and 1:45–2:45 p.m.
Tuesday, February 18 | 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. and 2:15–3:15 p.m.
Wednesday, February 19 | 10:00–11:00 a.m. and 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Given the range of learning styles and abilities of students today, educators need technology and resources to accommodate and personalize learning. Apple builds accessibility features into every product, so everyone can use them in ways that work best for them. Join us for an interactive learning session to learn about built-in accessibility features on iPad.
- Apple Accessibility
- Apple Education Community — Accessibility
- Apple Accessibility Playlist
- Reaching All Learners with iPad
Apple Learning Coach Showcase
Tuesday, February 18 | 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 19 | 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Apple Learning Coach is a free, online certification program that trains instructional coaches, digital learning specialists and other coaching educators to get more out of Apple technology. In this session, discover how becoming an Apple Learning Coach can enhance teaching and learning with technology. You’ll hear insights from certified Apple Learning Coaches and learn how the program has transformed their coaching practice.
Apple Intelligence for Education: A New Era of Innovation
Monday, February 17 | 9:30–10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, February 18 | 9:30–10:30 a.m.
Learn how a new era of innovation in education is here, transforming what leaders, educators, and students can do with Apple products — and what Apple products can do for them. This session is designed to help school leaders and educators navigate how Apple Intelligence fits into their school and learning environments privately and securely. Explore how Apple Intelligence seamlessly integrates into system experiences and apps used every day, and how new tools such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Transcripts use personal context to deliver intelligence that’s useful and relevant, enhancing productivity and creativity.
Engaging Early Learners
Monday, February 17 | 12:30–1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 18 | 1:00–2:00 p.m.
What do you expect learning to look like for your youngest students? And how can technology play a role? Join us for a discussion around how the use of technology should be intentional and natural, as well as age appropriate to meet the abilities of each learner. We’ll also explore how iPad can help your youngest students communicate, create, and learn at their own pace.
Deploying Apple in Education
Tuesday, February 18 | 2:15–3:15 p.m.
Join us to discuss best practices for deploying Apple in both one-to-one and shared-use environments. We’ll walk through zero-touch deployment, device configuration, federated authentication, managing software updates, and strategies for managing both institution-owned and user-owned Apple devices.
Supporting Multilingual Learners
Wednesday, February 19 | 2:15–3:15 p.m.
Do you design quality learning experiences that support multilingual learners wherever they are in their learning journey? Join us to discuss best practices and lesson ideas to meet individual student interests, levels, and learning styles. We’ll also explore built-in features on iPad that help strengthen language skills.
Attach up to 5 files which will be available for other members to download.