How Has Steve Jobs Inspired You In Your Own Learning Or Teaching?

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How has Steve Jobs inspired you in education?

We want to know -- submit a photo or video and description (like our sample submission) that shares with us where and how Steve Jobs has influenced you in learning, teaching or anything in education.

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[Howard Latchford]

06:38 PM on 11/27/2011

Steve Jobs has served as an excellent bad example of rude and mean behavior to be avoided. People CAN be successful without being a**holes. Steve Job's notoriously rude behavior is inexcusable, regardless of his successes. He did not succeed because of being rude; he succeeded in spite of it. I hope his terrible behavior toward others will not become a pattern for other people.

[captainindustry]

10:20 AM on 10/08/2011

Well the important thing is to get every student in front of a monitor all day long. Then they can go home and watch television for 8 hours.

[BonsaTree]

03:37 PM on 10/06/2011

I was an elementary school teacher for over 20 years and in the 80's Apple started their computer in every school program where they donated an Apple to every school in California. Great marketing ploy for Apple, but it also put them in the schools where the kids could get access to them. I suspect that without that donation, it would have been years before technology reached most California schools. It was the beginning of computer & technology education program as part of the general curriculum. Within less than a year, the district I worked for, CVESD, had a big computer lab in one school and more that followed soon after. Mostly spurred on by the gifts that had arrived from Apple.

As the Tech Rep at one school I helped to build a computer lab and later at another built a new lab with grant moneys. That was a time of great learning for both students and teachers. Students got to touch and experience what the digital age could be; we teachers learned how to use the technology to teach; what worked and what didn't in the curriculum.

The level of technology we should have in schools, but then we also don't the number of teachers we should have either. But we do have some technology and it has become an important element of the curriculum and continues to help student prepare for adult life because Apple and Steve Jobs were willing to share with schools 30 years