Professional Learning with Educational Technology: Apple Mac and iPad

Learn More About Your Devices

  • Apple Mac & iPad

MacBook Air Prerequisite Form

  • Eligible Teachers and Librarians:

    In order to receive your new MacBook Air, you must successfully complete the Prerequisite Form. Please click the button below to navigate to the Prerequisite Form page.

  • MacBook Air Prerequisite Form

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Image prompting readers to click here to navigate to FWISD Macbook program for teachers FAQs

Obtaining Teacher Devices

  • Fort Worth ISD Technology provides a MacBook and iPad for all classroom teachers. For teachers who need a MacBook and iPad, Technology Campus Support now delivers this equipment directly to the teachers on their campus. To request this equipment, please follow these steps:

    1. Go to https://supporthub.fwisd.org and click on Create an Incident.

      creat an incident button

     

         2. Complete all the information in the following fields:

    • School phone number
    • Teacher's room number
    • Short Description: Request for Teacher MacBook and iPad
    • Select Hardware Category
    • Additional comments: Deliver a teacher MacBook and iPad for [teacher name], Employee ID [#######], room number [####]

    Requester info

    3. Click Submit to send the request.

    submit button

    For questions, please call 817-814-4357.

Additional Training Opportunities

  • The Fort Worth ISD Educational Technology department are offering Apple Mac and iPad trainings. Both eCourse and face-to-face formats are provided. FWISD educators can locate these trainings in the Eduphoria catalog by filtering with the "EdTech" category; the face-to-face trainings are first-come-first-serve. 


  • Hello, I’m Mac: In this 3-hour session, participants will learn how to get started with using a Macbook, the differences between a Macbook and a laptop PC, hardware features and functionality, operating system navigation, network connectivity facilitation, and general application usage. A Macbook is a powerful, fast, and versatile notebook computer. The Macbook puts the full teaching and learning functionality as well as the capabilities of the Mac operating system (OS) in a portable and durable device.  This session is open to all FWISD educators and is intended for beginner level Mac users.

    Enroll in a face-to-face session now

    Enroll in the eCourse now

  • Hello, I’m iPad: In this 3-hour session, participants will learn how to get started with using an iPad, hardware functionality, basic operating system, network connectivity, and application (apps) basics. The iPad is a mobile/tablet device that brings computer functionality, product creation, lesson delivery,  teaching, and learning to your fingertips .  This session is open to all FWISD educators and is intended for beginner level iPad users. 

    Enroll in the eCourse now