Apple and Education

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Many schools ranging from kindergarten to college turn to Apple for education. While other computers are used as a reference for education in some schools, Apple still remains the dominant source of education around the world. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first founded Apple, they did not realize that their company would be such a success, particularly in education. When Apple donated the first Apple I’s to schools in 1975, they had created an ever-lasting bond between Apple and education that would last for years to come. Apple has changed education in the way people teach, learn, and interact around the world.
Apple has made education more efficient and interactable than ever before. Before Apple was created, the main source of technology in education were mainframes and minicomputers, which were used to handle multiple users simultaneously. When Steve Jobs and Apple decided to make the decision to donate Apple I’s for education, this created a breakthrough in connecting education with technology. Even though the Apple I wasn’t used much in schools for education it began a series of events over the next few years that would help schools provide a proper education from kids in elementary school to adults in college by providing user-friendly software, Mac OS X, that anyone, even children, could learn in a matter of days, even hours. Now, ever since 1975, schools have began to trust the simple and ever-lasting machines that Apple have been inventing over they years, and now Apple is the number one company that schools turn to for technology for their students. With the virus-free software known as Mac OS X and the basic designs of the Apple keyboards, touch-screen, and apps, students can easily adapt to Apple, download educat...

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...arn education. Without the technology that Apple provides today, schools and other centers of learning would not provide the same efficient and reliable education that iPads and iMacs have been providing for the past decades.

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