July 10, 2020

Apple extends its online software classes and content for educators

Conclusion:

Apple today unveiled its plans for a modern, free platform to help educators at all skill levels acquire the opportunity to teach both Swift and Xcode — the latest of Apple’s instructional programs aimed at inspiring more students to learn how to create applications. Apple will begin providing free online training to educators on July 13, to serve as an introduction to its Swift curriculum growth.

The program has now been fully revamped to suit the learning preferences of pupils, based on user input, Apple says.

The latest series will also include four books, “Developing in Swift Explorations,” “Developing CS Concepts in Swift AP,” and “Developing in Swift Fundamentals,” all available today. A fifth book, “Create Data Collections in Swift,” will be published later this fall. All of this is available in Apple Books.

The software is targeted towards high school and higher education students and relies on the Apple-designed open-source programming language Swift, built using Xcode on the Mac.

Apple’s Anyone Can Code program also incorporates puzzles and challenges to introduce the building blocks of coding in Swift through the Swift Playgrounds software to younger children, grades 4 through 8.

They will now move on to a new book, “Everyone Can Code Fun,” with all the students who have already finished the book “Everyone Can Code Puzzles.” This book contains more technical games where students can practice constructing with Swift while still learning about critical programming principles.

Through the latest and extended classes, the organization claims its goal is to offset the demand for computer science teachers in the U.S., where sometimes a demand emerges.

Furthermore, parents are also given the classes, many of whom are now making the transition to being home school teachers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Apple has also added a new set of remote learning resources for parents of homeschoolers ages 10 and up, including “A Quick Start to Code” with 10 iPad or Mac coding challenges. Plus, apple’s learning from the Home platform, released this year, and has tools. The app features on-demand presentations and immersive online learning workshops, and opportunities to arrange free one-on-one interactive coaching sessions provided by Apple’s instructors.

The long-term impacts remain to be seen from Apple’s push for increased coding education. For e.g., “Everyone Can Code” was only released in 2016, and the program called “Build in Swift” only arrived last year.

Conclusion:

There is still some controversy over the idea that “everybody” can and should learn to code. Although many will learn coding basics, not everybody would love coding or excel at it. Besides, people sometimes take to technology for the wrong reasons or get duped into believing by technology boot camps that a few weeks of training would help them float effortlessly into six-figure careers.

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