The Avon Maitland District School Board is spending $330,000 to outfit Grade 7 and 8 students at nine more of their schools with iPads for next September.
It's the second phase of the board's Next Generation Learning program. Grade 7 and 8 students at five schools got board-purchased iPads in December.
The board says they want to embrace the technology kids are already using and giving students iPads means everyone gets one, not just kids with parents that can afford one.
Students get to take the iPads home and get to keep them as long as they're students at Avon Maitland's schools.
By the next school year, over 1,400 students will be using board -purchased iPads.
