Apple CEO Tim Cook Announces New iPad, Updated iWork Apps at Lane Tech College Prep High School Event

Tech giant Apple with CEO Tim Cook the keynote speaker made a big announcement in Chicago at Lane Tech High School Tuesday, and ABC 7 Chicago interviewed South Middle School Jennifer Smith for her reaction.

On a drizzly March day in Chicago, Apple employees dressed in green and yellow — Lane Tech’s school colors — handed out umbrellas, Apple event access badges/lanyards, and answered questions while they welcomed visitors into the famous school. Visitors took part in a “field trip” Chicago Public Schools students are on spring break.

Inside the school, Apple showed off a new “budget” iPad specifically targeted toward students. The 9.7-inch device — the same size as the traditional iPad — costs $299 for schools and $329 for consumers. Storage for students is expanded from 50 GB for regular consumers to 200 GB for students using an Apple iCloud with a school-managed Apple id account. Pre-orders start on Tuesday.

Updated iWork apps are also available today. All of the iWork apps for iOS (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) are now compatible with the Apple Pencil for use with iPad Pro models and the new sixth-generation iPad announced today. The first Apple iPad was released on April 3, 2010.

In all three apps, users can draw and write with the Apple Pencil and use it as a pointer/selector for navigational purposes. In Pages, there’s a Smart Annotation (beta) that’s designed to allow you to use the Apple Pencil to add comments and marks to a Pages document, and you can add Apple Pencil drawings.

Pages
• Draw, write, and annotate using Apple Pencil on supported devices, or use your finger.
• Easily add drawings with pen, pencil, crayon, and fill tools.
• Use Smart Annotation Beta to add comments and marks that stay anchored to their associated text.
• Make beautiful digital books using new book templates.
• Collaborate in real time on documents stored in Box.
• Add an image gallery to view a collection of photos on the same page.
• Use presenter mode to easily read and auto scroll text while giving a speech.
• Create and edit paragraph styles and character styles.
• View pages side by side as you work.
• Turn on facing pages to format your document as two-page spreads.
• Create master pages to keep the design consistent across your page layout document.
• Change your document orientation to landscape or portrait.
• Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
• Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way.
• Use conditional highlighting in tables to change the appearance of a cell when the value meets specified conditions.
• New option to automatically format fractions as you type.

— Apple.com/pages

Pages can be exported to documents in EPUB format (extension .epub) so the documents can be read using iBooks on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or with other third-party EPUB readers. EPUB is an open digital book (eBook) standard from the International Digital Publishing Forum. EPUB is also widely used on software readers such as Google Play Books on Android, but not by Amazon Kindle e-readers. Apple iBooks is an e-book application by Apple Inc. for Apple’s iOS and macOS operating systems and devices.

Numbers
• Draw and write with Apple Pencil on supported devices, or use your finger.
• Collaborate in real time on spreadsheets stored in Box.
• Use conditional highlighting in tables to change the appearance of a cell when the value meets specified conditions.
• Powerful new options for sorting and filtering tables.
• Improved, customizable import of CSV and text data, with support for custom delimiters and fixed-width files.
• Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way.
• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos.
• Enhance spreadsheets with a variety of new editable shapes.
• Full bidirectional support for Arabic and Hebrew.

— Apple.com/numbers

Keynote
• Draw and write with Apple Pencil on supported devices, or use your finger.
• Animate drawings during slideshows.
• Collaborate in real time on presentations stored in Box.
• Easily change the theme of a presentation.
• Adjust presentation slide size and aspect ratio.
• Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way.
• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos.
• Enhance presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.

— Apple.com/keynote

Schoolwork is a new education cloud-based app that is used for assignments and handouts, and monitors student progress.

Apple says digital pencil will now work with this cheapest iPad, but it is still only available at an extra cost of $99.

Invited guests for the Tuesday March 27 mystery event were predominantly students or educators, but former Vice President Al Gore was also on hand at Lane Tech for Apple’s unique announcement.

The Verge: Rather than the usual California-based event in March, Apple took its team to Chicago in 2018 to make its spring announcements, most of which revolved around a new iPad geared toward the education market.

In October 2017, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook applauded Emanuel’s efforts to require all CPS students to take a coding class.

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