Pay once · Apple School Manager · For iPad with M1 or later. Not available for iPhone or Mac.
Six ways to learn by doing.
Every model type comes with a classroom idea you can try in a single lesson.
Image
Tell a pencil, an eraser and scissors apart from photos the class takes.
Sound
Recognise claps, finger snaps and knocks recorded in class.
Tabular Data
Predict someone’s height from the size of their hand, foot and arm span.
Text
Guess which school subject a sentence comes from.
Hand Pose
Recognise rock, paper or scissors from a photo of a hand.
Hand Action
Recognise hand gestures from short videos.
How a lesson flows
Collect. Train. Test. Use it.
01
Collect.
Students gather their own examples with the iPad and start a new model with its name and author.
02
Train.
They choose the settings and watch accuracy and loss improve, iteration by iteration.
03
Test.
They try the model on new examples, or live with the camera and microphone, and see what it gets right and what it gets wrong.
04
Use it.
They export a .mlmodel and use it in Swift Playgrounds.
Teaching materials
A complete unit. Ready to teach.
Six exercises, one for each model type. Each one fits in a 50 minute class, and each one ends with an app your students can build in Swift Playgrounds.
Exercise 1 · Image
What’s in my pencil case?
Tell a pencil, an eraser and scissors apart from photos the class takes.
Their app. The camera recognises each object live, with its icon and confidence.
Exercise 2 · Sound
What’s that sound in class?
Recognise claps, finger snaps and knocks recorded in class.
Their app. It listens to the class and counts every clap, snap and knock it hears.
Exercise 3 · Tabular Data
Can we guess your height?
Predict someone’s height from the size of their hand, foot and arm span.
Their app. A form that builds itself from the model, and a figure that grows to the predicted height.
Exercise 4 · Text
Which subject is this sentence from?
Guess which school subject a sentence comes from.
Their app. As you type, it ranks the subjects from most to least likely.
Exercise 5 · Hand Pose
Rock, paper, scissors
Recognise rock, paper or scissors from a photo of a hand.
Their app. Play against the iPad: a countdown, a random pick and a scoreboard.
Exercise 6 · Hand Action
Gestures that speak
Recognise hand gestures from short videos.
Their app. The front camera recognises the gesture and the iPad says it out loud.
Solved for you.The teacher’s guide has the goal, the steps, what should happen, answers to the class questions, common problems and an extension.
Graded in minutes.Every exercise has a rubric with four criteria and four levels.
13 languages.A trial guide, the teacher’s guide and a student notebook with the same sheets, without the answers.
For secondary school, high school and vocational training. Works on digital competence, STEM, learning to learn and citizenship. Groups of 3 or 4, one iPad per group.
Built for the classroom.
Fits in a lesson.
Pause a training when the bell rings and continue next class from History.
Works offline.
Training happens on the iPad. No internet needed.
13 languages.
Including Arabic, right to left.
Explained as you go.
Info buttons on every setting, plus step by step tutorials.
From a model to an app.
Students can build an app around their own model in Swift Playgrounds, on the same iPad. A real project, not just an exercise.
No ads. No accounts.
Nothing to sign up for and nothing tracked.
Private by design.
Student photos, sounds and data stay on the iPad. No data is sent to the developer.
M1 and later.
Runs on the school iPads you already have, with iPadOS 26.
Swift Playgrounds
From a model to their own app.
Swift Playgrounds is where students write real Swift code. Put the two apps together and a class project ends with an app they built themselves, around a model they trained themselves.
01Export.Students export their model from MagicaLCore EDU as a .mlmodel file.
02Start an app.They open a new App project in Swift Playgrounds, on the same iPad.
03Add the model.They drop in the .mlmodel and write the screens in SwiftUI, with a live preview as they type.
04Show it.They run the app on the iPad and share it with the class.
Free on every iPad.Swift Playgrounds is a free app from Apple, for iPad and Mac.
Starts from zero.Its Learn to Code lessons teach the basics with puzzles before students build their own app.
Grows with them.The same project can open later in Xcode on a Mac.
Swift Student Challenge
A real goal for a real project.
Every year Apple invites students to create an app playground and submit it to the Swift Student Challenge. A model they trained themselves can be the heart of it.
Once a year.Submissions usually open early in the year. In 2026 they closed on February 28.
One student, one app.Each entry is an app playground made individually, in Swift Playgrounds or Xcode.
350 winners in 2026.From 37 countries and regions. 50 Distinguished Winners were invited to Apple Park.
Where MagicaLCore EDU fits.
01Pick a problem.Something they care about: sorting recycling, recognising birds at school, reading a sign in sign language.
02Collect their own data.Their own photos, sounds or measurements, so everything in the project is theirs.
03Train and test.In MagicaLCore EDU, on the iPad. The model works offline, as the Challenge asks.
04Build and explain.They build the app playground around the model and explain in their own words how they made it and which tools they used.
MagicaLCore is not part of the Swift Student Challenge and is not affiliated with Apple. Who can enter, the minimum age and the rules change every year and by country or region, so read the official terms before starting.
A trial guide, a teacher’s guide with six solved exercises and rubrics, and a student notebook, in 13 languages. Sent with proof of purchase, with your school’s name on every page.
Write to us from your school’s email. You get an invitation to try the full app on your iPads with TestFlight, plus the trial guide with a first exercise. Questions about licences are welcome too.
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