The service joins the ranks of other start-ups, like Khan Academy and Codecademy that are trying to rethink access to learning and overhaul the services and tools that students and teachers use for learning.
He said, "If we want to expand the Quizlet platform so that billions of people have access to these learning tools around the world, we need to lean into our mobile experience.
He said: "By connecting more people in developing countries, we have an opportunity to create more than 140 million new jobs, lift 160 million people out of poverty, and give more than 600 million children access to affordable learning tools".
One-to-one computing initiatives and low-cost/high-speed home Internet will help address equity concerns, but we worry that disparate access to early learning tools, in particular, might exacerbate our large, and growing, school-readiness gap.
As access to these learning tools increases, so will their relevance in our children's school day.
That the U.S. spends $50,000 a year to incarcerate people, but won't give them access to a learning tool with infinite potential was downright depressing.
Amplify attempts to put those ideas into practice, by allowing the company to not only sell its curriculum on any tablet makes its way into schools, but by betting that schools will be willing to fork over a pretty penny to access blended learning tools (and an infrastructure to store learning data) all through a custom tablet.
Of particular importance is securing broad internet access for Turkmen children to make sure that they have access to all modern learning tools.
In a statement, Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook said "This unique program will give students access to the incredible learning tools on iPad, as well as Apple's new coding curriculum that teaches critical skills for jobs in some of the country's fastest-growing sectors.
