The Apple Education Conference 2018 ended a while ago, which went against the expectations that many have talked about, as Apple only introduced a new iPad at a price similar to its predecessor, as well as provided a large number of applications and services to teachers, which made the conference worthy of being an educational conference only and not targeting the average follower exactly as Apple hinted not to broadcast the conference or publish invitations on its official website.

The conference started with a video of children playing in real life. The video ended with the saying, "You can do anything you want and anything to change the world."

Then Tim Cook took to the stage and spoke about Apple's belief in future generations and that they will be the future of America. Then he began to review Apple's contributions, saying that Macs and iPads are everywhere here and in all classes, from music to robot control techniques, adding that Apple has helped teach more than 370 children to code in Chicago only. He praised the teachers and said that Apple seeks to provide all possible means for them to provide the best education for children.

After that, the conference really began, where Tim talked about the application and system of Swift Playgrounds and how children are taught with it in schools as well as Apple headquarters to program in an easy way. He said that in order to provide better education, he welcomed a new product, the iPad.

Quickly, Tim Cook talked about the iPad and how it is used in schools and education, then left the platform to Greg Joswiak, who completed Tim's talk and said that there are 200,000 applications designed specifically for education on the iPad, and then he said that there is a new iPad and it provides for the first time an important feature that is better. An economical iPad, the "new iPad" now supports Apple's latest creative tool, which is the iPad Pro Professional pen.

Then we moved on to the details of using the Apple Pencil, as well as it was clarified that Apple had updated its Pages, Numbers and Keynote applications to support the use of the Apple Pencil.

Thus, you can express with the pen however you want and in any application, as well as there will be features to come such as "Smart Annotation", which allows you to add marks in a more professional way.

As for the technical specifications, it was similar to the previous generation in design and screen, but the processor was improved to become the A10 "iPhone 7 processor" without almost any changes except for this matter. Even the price will be the same as it starts from $ 329 for the 32 GB version, but there will be a $ 30 reduction for students, which becomes $ 299

Then Apple talked about upcoming updates and applications such as an application called Boulevard AR, which enables you to interact and draw on virtual boards in the classroom, as well as the Free Rivers application, and Apple will also update Garageband and Clips applications. It will be a new feature called "Apple School Manager" which targets schools with less than 1500 students. The person responsible for the feature or the school account can create student accounts in less than a minute.

Apple also said that the free storage space granted in the cloud, which is 5 GB, will be increased to 200 GB.

Apple also announced the first iPad stylus, not from its own production, but from the Logitech company, called the Crayon Pen, and its price is only $ 49.

It also announced more benefits for teachers and students, such as providing the Classroom application on the Mac system "soon in June," as well as Apple will launch an application called "Schoolwork" and by means of which the teacher can define the duties of the students that they have to do and watch the students' progress in solving the assignments.

Apple also announced more benefits for teachers, such as a tool that allows them to create curricula and topics that they will explain in the classroom, and Apple said that it is very easy, as anyone can use it, so you can take a picture with the camera and modify it with a pen, as well as add voice notes on a specific part of it.

After reviewing the advantages in detail, Tim Cook returned to the theater to conclude the conference, where he spoke quickly about the advantages and their uses, reviewed several promotional videos, and the conference ended.

If you are interested in the field of education, what most of what was mentioned in the conference caught your attention? Did we, like us, expect more of it and feel disappointed by Apple?

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