Apple invited the press to one of the Chicago schools, Lane Technical College Prep, to present its new products that will focus on education. Among the most expected is a low-cost iPad and a new software for teachers, among other surprises.

iPad for school

Apple announced its iPad focused to facilitate students' learning process. So far this is the cheapest iPad on the market with a price of 329 dollars (~ 911,000 Colombian pesos) for the public and 299 dollars (~ 829,000 Colombian pesos) for schools

• Screen: 9.7 inches
• Rear camera: 8 megapixels
• Processor: A10 Fusion
• Weight: 1 pound

The Apple Pencil arrives at the conventional iPad

The iPad will support the Apple Pencil, which until now was only available for the Pro line. On this occasion, the company announced a new design in the form of a crayon. The new tablet will not have a connector for smart keyboards, but in all its other features it is very similar to an iPad Pro. "We have created an affordable iPad that works with our most creative tools," said Tim Cook.

The iPad will support the Apple Pencil, which until now was only available for the Pro line. On this occasion, the company announced a new design in the form of a crayon. The new tablet will not have a connector for smart keyboards, but in all its other features it is very similar to an iPad Pro. "We have created an affordable iPad that works with our most creative tools," said Tim Cook.

In addition, the company spoke of new shared work platforms, iWork and DocFirst. These platforms are not ready, but they promised to announce soon how they will work. For its part, the crayon was developed in partnership with LogiTech and it will cost only 49 dollars (~ 135,000 Colombian pesos). On the other hand, the pen of the iPad Pro has a cost of $ 99 (~ 275,000 Colombian pesos)

Apple Apps to create in the classroom

In addition to the applications of Boulevard AR and Free Rivers of the WWF, now interactive books can be created with iBooks Author (application that was used to create contents for the iBooks platform), that until now was only available for Mac. This will be available for iPad and it could be a collaborative project that will allow adding from different iPad. In addition, within the project that Apple has been building for some time 'programming for all', some special applications for teachers and students were created to help innovation in the classroom.

The new iPad for the school, which will be shared, will allow creating profiles. Switching between profiles will not take more than a minute, so each student can have their own space. Likewise, Apple announced that the profiles or Apple ID of each student will have 200 GB of free storage, unlike the 5GB that users usually have.

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