{"id":53104,"date":"2016-01-11T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=53104"},"modified":"2016-01-11T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:04:58","slug":"in-ed-tech-apple-tries-to-catch-up-with-google-w-ios-9-3-beta-apples-providing-a-preview-of-these-4-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/01\/11\/in-ed-tech-apple-tries-to-catch-up-with-google-w-ios-9-3-beta-apples-providing-a-preview-of-these-4-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"[In ed tech] Apple tries to catch up with Google; w\/ iOS 9.3 beta, Apple&#8217;s providing a preview of these 4 new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Well it&#8217;s about time!\u00a0 It appears that Apple has finally gotten around to responding to being blown out of the water by Google (in the world of ed tech).\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=los+angeles+ipad+fiasco&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8\" target=\"_blank\">The fiasco with Apple, Pearson and the Los Angeles School District<\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">didn&#8217;t help them either. Now they&#8217;re forced to play catch up; which is really too bad, because it wasn&#8217;t but a few short years ago when Apple was on top of the education world &#8212; especially after having introduced the iPad.\u00a0 But now, Apple has a lot of work to do to catch up in the mindshare department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Anyway, with the iOS 9.3 beta, Apple is providing a preview of 4 new features:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/education\/preview\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53106\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53106\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EducationPreviewApple-Jan2016.jpg\" alt=\"EducationPreviewApple-Jan2016\" width=\"249\" height=\"1122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EducationPreviewApple-Jan2016.jpg 249w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EducationPreviewApple-Jan2016-33x150.jpg 33w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EducationPreviewApple-Jan2016-227x1024.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2016-01-11-new-apple-ios-updates-improve-device-management-for-schools\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New Apple iOS Updates Improve Device Management for Schools<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Mary Jo Madda<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nBig news from Apple today\u2014and we\u2019re not just talking about the iOS 9 update.Timed with the release of iOS 9.3,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/education\/preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple announced it is debuting four new features<\/a> for Apple iOS\u00a0device users in the classroom. According to company representatives, the new features are designed to keep students on tasks and allow administrators more ease when managing Apple IDs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Well it&#8217;s about time!\u00a0 It appears that Apple has finally gotten around to responding to being blown out of the water by Google (in the world of ed tech).\u00a0The fiasco with Apple, Pearson and the Los Angeles School District didn&#8217;t help them either. Now they&#8217;re forced to play catch up; which is really [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,139,286,32,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-learning","category-apple","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-k-12-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53111,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104\/revisions\/53111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}