if ever there was a doubt about technology being used in empowering kids and school education then the last one month or so has laid them to complete rest the world as we once knew hasnt been the same for anyone and more so for children of all agegroups from studying to finding ways to get their creative juices flowing its been a task for parents and children alike mercifully technology has been at hand to make life relatively simpler take the case of apple and how the company has been offering solutions to parents teachers and kids education has been a big focus area for apple for years now the apps the devices ipad in particular have come to the fore in the last one month or so to support remote learning apple started a series of videos called the apple education learning series where each video is designed to help educators use apple products and their builtin features to enable remote learning for all students these videos are updated regularly and there is a virtual conference schedule where 45minute sessions are conducted with educators to interact with apple teams to know more about the video content using social media apps and other toolsapple isnt that active on social media compared to other tech companies but it has been organising weekly chats on twitter with teachers on remote learning the cupertinobased tech giant also has apple teacher a free online professional learning programme designed to support teachers around the world apple has 2500 what it calls apple distinguished educators that include teachers and mentors who help others in integrating apple products into teaching lakshmi priya who teaches physics at the trio world academy bengaluru is an apple distinguished educator and says that she draws inspirations from the apple resources on apple teacher learning center a regular user of the apple resource guide she says that her lessons integrate technology at a deeper levelit allows my learners to be innovators without reinventing the wheel and creators of their own enriching learning experiences through the ipad an app collection has been created on the app store to support institutions and educators to enable remote learning for all students apps like khan academy coursera minecraft are a part of this collection schoolwork is an app which apple encourages teachers to use as it enables them to give assignments worksheets and track progress of studentsat the heart of it is the core philosophy of encouraging schools teachers and students to use apple products apps and technology in general from a business perspective it makes sense to do this as schools students are a big target audience for the company but it also plays a crucial role in times of remote learning and getting students adept with technology as stephen augeri head of school of oberoi international school jvlr campus puts it from the perspective of our students the biggest benefit of using apples technology are all the ways in