Patton iPad program to get ‘pause’

Technology issues, reported parent concerns lead to slow of tablet roll out Unionville-Chadds Ford School District officials had hoped to give iPad Mini’s to eighth grade students at Patton Middle School in the fall of 2013. But because of technology and other concerns, the program will be delayed until 2014 at the earliest. By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH — Citing infrastructure...

Schools look at integrating iPads into 8th grade learning

Under proposal, each eighth grader in the district would get an iPad Mini By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH — The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District appears poised to start the process of transitioning to a truly digital educational experience, with eighth grade students in the fall of 2013 likely to be the vanguards of what could be a largely paperless school system by the end...