Apple Products Used In Schools

By: Tracy Armbruster | WJTV
Published: October 06, 2011

Many of the products Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs was instrumental in designing are now in schools helping children learn and teachers teach.

Here in the Metro, Jackson Academy school administrators bought 100 laptops for their classrooms, 90 iPads for elementary classes and 40 iPod Touches for pre-schoolers.

"We use them for projects and sometimes typing notes and research," recalls tenth grader Ben Tribble.

"In my film class, for example, we did a video and used Final Cut Pro to make the videos in class," adds twelfth grader Michelle Ley.

The sixth grade class is using the computers to learn a new foreign language.

“The ease of use and the coherency of hardware and software," explains Technology Director Eddie Wettach.

For many of these students, they've never experienced learning without the use of technology. And, much of that is accredited to Jobs.

"Instead of what he did and instead of them keeping up with us, our generation is trying to keep up with them," continues Ley.

And, Jackson Academy officials plan to keep using the apple products in the years to come.

"They’ll be the first to say that it's not about the devices, it's about the teaching and the learning. but, they happen to make devices that make teaching and learning really easy to use that engages the students," comments Wettach.