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MDHS, Avon Maitland makes big investment in technology
Grade 7, 8 to get
iPads
Laura Cudworth & Kristine Jean
with files from Whitney South
QM! Agency
There are 475 pupils who can
scratch iPad off their Christmas
wish list.
The Avon Maitland District
School Board has spent about
$200,000 on iPad 2s which will be
given to Grade 7 and 8 students in
five schools -- Seaforth, Hullett
Central and Huron Centennial
public schools as well as Mitchell
Distinct High School and Clinton.
"I was really excited about it,"
said Quaid Austin, 13, at last Tues-
day's announcement in Mitchell. "I
thought it was really cool:'
The plan is to roll the "one-to-
one" program out across the entire
board, eventually.
Superintendent Mike Ash said
MDHS (Grade 7-12) and the other
schools chosen for the project (Kin-
dergarten to Grade 8) provide dif-
ferent school settings to test the
project.
"We're looking at two different
environments and trying the
project to see if there are any chal-
lenges in either of those environ-
ments that we have to think about,
before we move onto other schools
within the board," said Ash.
The iPads will be purchased over
the next few weeks he noted, set up
and prepared by the board's IT
team and hopes to have them in
students hands towards the end of
January or begirming of February.
"My kids will say, 'Why isn't this
in Goderich?' I'd say that's a great
reaction. We want to build excitement
and make this spread," said Ted
Doherty, director of education.
"We know there's no substitute for
good teaching, and that will always be
the case," Doherty added. "But tech-
nology has a role to play..:'
The board wants to hammer out
problems before the program does
spread and there's an obvious
get it im
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expense that has to be managed.
Funds that formerly went to into com-
puter labs will be redirected to iPads.
For students at the five starter
schools, education is going to look
drastically different as a result. The
days of sitting around with a textbook,
pencil and large eraser to solve math
problems are a thing of the past. Now
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