SC district to give iPads to all high schoolers

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — All high school students in Lexington 1 school district will soon receive their own personal iPad to use in class and wherever else they want computer access.

Superintendent Karen Wood says the tablets should better prepare students for the world.

The hope is iPads will allow for classroom lessons and homework assignments that better engage and motivate students, and also help students work on their own. Woodward says providing all students with the technology also helps bridge socioeconomic gaps.

More than 6,600 iPads will be handed out to students in a few days. Teachers in all four high schools received theirs in August.

The more than $3 million spent on 7,200 iPads was funded by a bond referendum voters approved in 2008 that included $15 million for technology upgrades.