{"id":59316,"date":"2017-04-25T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59316"},"modified":"2017-04-25T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:18:00","slug":"dc-will-starbucks-apple-stores-etc-be-learning-hubs-of-the-future-apple-announces-their-today-at-apple-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/04\/25\/dc-will-starbucks-apple-stores-etc-be-learning-hubs-of-the-future-apple-announces-their-today-at-apple-program\/","title":{"rendered":"DC: Will Starbucks, Apple Stores, etc. be &#8220;learning hubs&#8221; of the future? Apple announces their &#8220;Today at Apple&#8221; program"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p class=\"hero-headline\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">After seeing the postings below, it made me wonder:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"hero-headline\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will Starbucks, Apple Stores, etc. be &#8220;learning hubs&#8221; of the future?<br \/>\n<\/strong>i.e., places that aren&#8217;t really what we think of as a school, college, or university, but where people can go to learn something with others in the same physical space; such locations will likely tie into online or blended-based means of learning as well.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"hero-headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2017\/04\/today-at-apple-bringing-new-experiences-to-every-apple-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u201cToday at Apple\u201d bringing new experiences to every Apple Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"hero-headline\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"hero-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cupertino, California \u2014 Apple today announced plans to launch dozens of new educational sessions next month in all 495 Apple stores ranging in topics from photo and video to music, coding, art and design and more. The hands-on sessions, collectively called \u201cToday at Apple,\u201d will be led by highly-trained team members, and in select cities world-class artists, photographers and musicians, teaching sessions from basics and how-to lessons to professional-level programs.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nApple will also offer special programs for families and educators. Teachers can come together for Teacher Tuesday to learn new ways to incorporate technology into their classrooms, or aspiring coders of all ages can learn how to code in Swift, Apple\u2019s programming language for iOS and Mac apps. Families can join weekend Kids Hour sessions ranging from music making to coding with robots. Small business owners can engage with global and local entrepreneurs in the new Business Circuits program.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"hero-headline\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We\u2019re creating a modern-day town square, where everyone is welcome in a space where the best of Apple comes together to connect with one another, discover a new passion, or take their skill to the next level. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hero-headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/968103\/apple-aapl-retail-chief-angela-ahrendts-wants-generation-z-to-hang-out-at-apple-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Apple wants kids to hang out at Apple stores<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from qz.com by Mike Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"hero-headline\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you\u2019ve just gotten out of school for the day and want to hang out with your friends before you head home, where would you go? In the US, there\u2019s a near-infinite selection of chain restaurants, coffee shops, diners, bookstores, movie theaters, and comic book stores to choose from. But Angela Ahrendts, Apple\u2019s head of retail, wants the answer to be an Apple store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Apple is in the process of revamping the look and feel of its retail outlets across the world, and to highlight some of the recent changes (including rebranding the \u201cGenius Bar\u201d to the \u201cGenius Grove\u201d and adding foliage everywhere), Ahrendts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/angela-ahrendts-svp-apple-retail-store-redesigns-gen-z-meet-me-at-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave an interview<\/a> to CBS This Morning, this morning. Ahrendts told CBS that she will see her work as a success when Generation Z, the catchall term for the generation behind the equally amorphous Millennials, decides of their own volition to hang out at Apple stores. As CBS reported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: After seeing the postings below, it made me wonder: Will Starbucks, Apple Stores, etc. be &#8220;learning hubs&#8221; of the future? i.e., places that aren&#8217;t really what we think of as a school, college, or university, but where people can go to learn something with others in the same physical space; such locations will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,354,139,97,127,498,271,72,8,252,18,9,32,545,3,99,419,46,7,559,87,408,23,256,182,269,166,66,89,40,195,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-av-audiovisual","category-apple","category-blended-learning","category-collaboration","category-communities-of-practice","category-creativity","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-audio","category-digital-photography","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-video","category-education-technology","category-heutagogy","category-higher-education","category-hybrid-learning","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-spaces","category-mediafilm","category-multimedia","category-music","category-new-media-literacies","category-professional-development","category-social-learning-networks","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-tools","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59321,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316\/revisions\/59321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}