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  • Apple Camp registration opens, program to return to full in-person sessions this summer

    Apple Camp registration opens, program to return to full in-person sessions this summer

    Apple on Wednesday began accepting registrations for its Apple Camp summer program for children, which will once again be held in Apple’s retail store locations. The Apple Camp schedule will return to an in-person format this year following limited sessions in 2021.

    Apple Camp will take place each week from June 20 through August 31, with a new two-hour format for families. Participants in Apple Camp will be able to create a digital comic book about protecting and celebrating the planet through the “Art Lab: Comic Book Adventure With Your Family” session.

    Attendees will use the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil devices to take photos, add drawings, speech bubbles, and stickers to their stories.

    The Apple Camp program is designed for children aged 8 to 12, and kids will be able to participate alongside their parents or guardians. Sessions will be available both in stores and outdoors, and devices are provided. Along with in-person sessions, Apple is also providing a downloadable Camp Field Guide that includes 20 at-home activities for the iPad.

    Check out the registration link below, and stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via MacRumors and Apple Camp

  • Apple offers updated Swift coding curriculum, resources for parents, teachers, and students

    If you’re teaching Apple’s Swift programming language or learning it yourself, this will come in handy.

    Apple on Thursday announced updates to its Swift coding programs and resources for educators and students alike.The Develop in Swift and Everyone Can Code curricula have been given an overhaul. Furthermore, it launched a new professional learning course for Develop in Swift for educators.

    The updated curriculum is aimed at both high school and higher education students, has been redesigned based on feedback from educators, and includes the following series of four books:

    • Develop in Swift Explorations
    • Develop in Swift AP CS Principles
    • Develop in Swift Fundamentals
    • Develop in Swift Data Collections

    The first three of these books are available today for free in Apple Books.  The fourth will become available in the fall.

    The company has also announced a free new online professional learning course intended for educators. The course will feature help from instructors who teach Swift and Xcode, interested students can sign up today, and the course will be held on July 13 via the Canvas Learning Management System.

    Finally, Apple’s new “A Quick Start to Code” is now available to help parents with kids who are home educating their children. The course offers 10 coding challenges for ages 10 and up, and can be run on either iPad or Mac.

    Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Markets, Apps, and Services, offered the following comment:

    Apple has worked alongside educators for 40 years, and we’re especially proud to see how Develop in Swift and Everyone Can Code have been instrumental in helping teachers and students make an impact in their communities. We’ve seen community college students build food security apps for their campus and watched middle school educators host virtual coding clubs over summer break. As part of our commitment to help expand access to computer science education, we are thrilled to be adding a new professional learning course to help more educators, regardless of their experience, have the opportunity to learn coding and teach the next generation of developers and designers.

    If you’ve had a chance to try these new resources out, please let us know about your experience in the comments.

    Via The Mac Observer and Apple

  • iOS 14 code leak hints at watchOS 7 features to come, including sleep tracking, Kids Mode, etc.

    Sometimes it’s the leaks that hint at the really good stuff down the line.

    Per leaked iOS 14 code, it’s been suggested that Apple’s watchOS 7 could include the following nifty features:

    Watch Faces

    • Watch faces that you can share with other Apple Watch users.
    • Infograph Pro: An updated version of the current Infograph watch face that will include a tachymeter so you can measure speed and distance based on your travel time.
    • An Apple Watch face from shared photo albums.

    Kids

    • Using their own iPhone a parent can set up and manage their child’s Apple Watch.
    • Schooltime: A feature that lets parents control which apps and watch complications that their child can use during school hours.

    Other

    • Sleep tracking: Set personalized sleep goals using the iOS Health app, and get recommendations for improving sleep duration and quality.
    • Control Center will include toggles for sleep mode and noise detection.
    • New code architecture: watchOS 6 lets developers create standalone watch apps, but the code is still based on the old model of the watch app as an extension of the phone app. watchOS 7 gets rid of that model, and apps won’t be based on extensions.

    So, there could be some cool stuff down the road.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via The Mac Observer and 9to5Mac

  • TeenSafe app inadvertently leaks substantial number of Apple ID passwords

    This definitely qualifies as something of a goof.

    TeenSafe, an app designed to allow parents to monitor their children’s online activity, was noted as saving users’ Apple ID passwords in unprotected plaintext form.

    The information collected by TeenSafe was hosted on Amazon servers, and also included device identifiers and the email addresses of parents, crediting the discovery to U.K. researcher Robert Wiggins. Those servers have been temporarily pulled offline, and a TeenSafe representative stated that the company has begun notifying anyone who might be impacted.

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  • iOS 10 beta 4 features new, updated emojis

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    Within the iOS 10 beta 4 released yesterday, Apple has encoded a series of new and updated emojis including the following:

    Rainbow Flag

    Single Parent Families

    Gender Variations

    Redesigned Emoji Images

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