Apple has announced that it will launch its second group of Apple Learning Coaches across the United States. This resource is a free professional learning program that will enable educators to help teachers get the most out of Apple products. The program’s first cohort across the US was certified in July. Currently, there are more than 1,600 Apple Learning Coaches in 49 states, including Washington, DC

Participants will be able to take advantage of self-paced lessons and virtual workshop sessions with Apple professional learning specialists, plus network with peers across the US, gain a training portfolio, and the opportunity to apply for education credits. continues from Lamar University.

Apple’s Vice President of Education and Enterprise Marketing, Susan Prescott, spoke about the free learning program, stating:

For more than four decades, Apple has worked with educators to help students create, solve problems, and express themselves in new ways. We designed Apple Learning Coach to help educators use technology in the classroom. Apple Learning Coach is already making a real impact among educators and their students, helping build a strong foundation for creativity and lifelong learning.

In addition, the Apple Education Community, created for educators using Apple technology and offering a Learning Center and a collaborative forum for educators to connect with one another, is also now available. Everyone Can Create Projects is a new online series of tutorials and downloadable resources, within the Apple Education Community, developed to help educators improve their teaching skills.

Educators can find several features within the creation projects for everyone, including designing with shapes in Keynote, animating with Stop Motion in photos and Keynote, creating editing effects with iMovie, and writing your first song with GarageBand, which now also offers Katy Perry and SEVENTEEN. Remix Sessions on iPhone and iPad.

Pages, Numbers, Keynotes, and Swift Playgrounds have also been updated with new features and improvements, such as the ability to automatically remove the background of images and remove or replace the background of live video objects in Keynote, along with the ability to view recent images. activity in collaborative files and get related notifications.

Swift Playgrounds now offers users the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of machine learning by training a model with a game of rock-paper-scissors, which shows how computers make predictions from data.

Instructional coaches, digital learning specialists, and other training educators in the US will be able to use Apple Learning Coach. The program accepts applications until November 16, 2022.