iPad Pilot Program in District 181 to Expand, Continue
With costs laid out and a new grant program in place to select suitable classrooms, the second phase of the @d181 Initiative will take place during the current 2012-13 school year.
District 181 board members have OK’d the second phase of a pilot program collecting data on the benefits of one-to-one student-to-iPad use three months after the board turned down a plan to make one-to-one tablet use the norm in district classrooms. The board of education voted 5-2 at its Sept. 24 meeting at Elm School to continue the @d181 Initiative, which during the 2011-12 school year evaluated in several fifth-grade classes the benefits of one-to-one iPad use compared to one-to-one laptop use, and this year will collect data only on the use of the iPad. The @d181 committee in June recommended that the board approve a plan that over three years would have put a school-issued tablet in the hands of every student in third through eighth …
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